| Brief History: |
With the postwar growth in students and programs, by the 1950's the administrative
division of the University had long outgrown its space in the Old Administration Building,
which was constructed at the turn of the century and initially housed the Hall-Moody
offices and class space. The new Administration Building was completed in 1959 as an
administrative and classroom space. The central offices of the Dean (now
chancellor), bursar, registrar, and personnel shared the building with the academic
departments of education, business administration, English, French, and home economics.
The classrooms were moved to new quarters. On February 2, 1968, the building
was named the Hall-Moody Administration Building in recognition of the institution's
predecessor, the Hall-Moody Institute (founded on the site in 1900 and named for two
locally prominent Baptists preachers). At the same time Hall-Moody was declared to
be UTM's predecessor and its alumni was accorded status as UTM alumni. In 1974, the
building was modernized and remodeled. |
