CHAMBER MEMBERS Bluegrass Community & Technical College 59 Corporate Dr. Danville, KY 40422 bluegrass.kctcs.edu Boyle County Extension 99 Corporate Dr. Danville, KY 40422 (859) 236-4484
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Today, the school is one of the country’s leading liberal arts colleges, nestled in the small town of Danville, with a nationally acclaimed study abroad program, receiving kudos year after year, like being ranked as one of the 50 top liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. Centre hosted the vice-presidential debate in 2000, between Sen. Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney, making history as the smallest institution ever to do so, and again in 2012, between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan. The generous donations the school garners, also year after year, from its alumni and other financial backers is proof of exactly what Centre means its community. CENTER OF THE WORLD Centre was named for its location — geographically centered in the state. British spellings were more common at the time of its founding. Reigelman talks of the Civil War, how the campus was taken over by both Union and Confederate soldiers and used as a 58
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hospital. Then, he says, in World War II, the college lost almost all the men to the war. “We’ve survived,” Reigelman says, then pauses for a moment, and says it makes him think of line from a William Butler Yeats poem. “‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,’ a line written 100 years after Centre was founded, by Yeats. He was thinking about the end of the era. Things have fallen apart from time to time at Centre, but we’ve always been rescued.” Professor of Economics Bruce Johnson, who co-chairs the school’s bicentennial planning committee, says people are proud of the institution, and it shows. “They are ambitious for it and are committed to its mission,” he says. “We’ve had a lot of support from visionary leaders in the beginning, to generous backers all along the way, to an incredibly loyal alumni body.” And the bicentennial celebration is a way to showcase not only the college’s ongoing success, but — as Reigelman puts it — “a way to look back and consider our history, our journey. Our odyssey, our
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