R E TRO SPE C T By Kathy Dean
“Whether or not this College is built depends upon the response of Baptists in this area and upon individuals of other denominations and faiths who desire to help provide a Christian College to educate our fast-growing number of high school students.� - Mobile College Campaign Fund Brochure The University of Mobile is built on connections. It started with Baptist leaders in Mobile, spread throughout Baptist churches, and extended into the community and beyond. Today, those connections form a network throughout the world, wherever there are UM alumni pursuing their professional calling for the glory of God.
In 1958, the Alabama Baptist State Convention agreed that if Mobile Baptists could, within two years, successfully complete a financial campaign resulting in cash or pledges of at least $1.5 million, it would be willing to establish and operate in Mobile a Christian college of liberal arts and sciences. A year later, more than $2 million was pledged and the convention agreed to establish and operate Mobile College.
The Book of Remembrance contains the names of 6,413 individuals and 186 businesses that contributed to the original campaign to build Mobile College. Over three-fourths of the $2 million pledged was raised through Baptist churches in Mobile, Baldwin, Clarke and Washington counties.
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TORCHLIGHT | Spring 2020
