First stop: The Howard University Hospital
-I'm definitely going to need to know about this place since im so accident prone. lol! I bet my friend India will be able to share more. She's in the school of nursing.
Did you know that from 1894 to 1898, the Howard University Hospital (then called the Freedmen's Hospital) was headed by Dr. Daniel Hale WIlliams? He was the first person to perform a successful open heart surgery! This school is so cool.
Next stop: Howard Hall
-This place is where General Oliver Otis Howard, a founder and the first president of my school lived. It was one of the first four buildings on campus, and is the oldest building that still exists in the school.
Did you know that in 1974 this building was deemed a National Historic Landmark? That means the buiding can never be torn down. It guarantees that the legacy of our founder and this school will live on. Wow!
Next stop: The Founder's Library
-Every good student knows that the library is the happenin' spot to be. My friend Shannon took me on a tour when I first got here and showed my this very cool place. But no real studying goes on here. For that, you have to pop into UGL- the undergraduate library.
Did you know that the same man who built the Founder's Library, Albert I. Cassell, also built The Quad where freshmen girls (like me!) live?
Did you know that the place where the library now sits used to be the site of the Main Building? It was torn down in 1936 to make way for the Founders' Library.
Did you know that inside of the Founder's Library are a museum of the history of the school, as well as changing exhibits on other aspects of history? There is also the Moorland-Spingam Research Center, one of the biggest repositories of the culture and history of descendants of Africa in the world.
Next stop: Miner Teachers College Building
- Now this building isn't actually on campus. It's acually a part of the University of the District of Columbia, and has been since 1977 when it merged with Wilson Teacher's College.
Did you know that when this Miner's School was first founded in 1851 by Myrtilla Miner, it was also known as the School for Colored Girls? After the Civil War, Congress chartered it to reopen as the Instituion for the Education of Colored Youth. So, of course, this was right up Howard's alley. The school was associated with this university from 1871 to 1876.
Did you know that Lucy Ellen Moten, a Howard alumna, was president of the school 1883-1920? She made it one of the top institutions in America during her leadership. That's grad power for you!
And my last stop: the Howard University Gallery of Art, established in 1928
-I have been inside Childers Hall before, but I never knew that right beside me was a collection of breathtaking artwork. I will definitely have to check this out in real life (not just cyperspace)! This assignment really was useful....
Did you know that before the Gallery of Art came to be in its current location, taking over one-third of the Fine Arts Building in the College of Arts and Sciences honoring Lulu Vere Childers, it was on display in the bottom floor of the Rankin Chapel, and then in 1941 moved to Founder's Library? It has been in Childers Hall since 1961.
Did you know that this collection started with donations of African artifacts donated by a Howard professor? Alain Locke (the COAS builing is named after him!) started the gallery with gifts from his own collection..
Howard's history is so great and its reach is so outspread. Never should it be said that black people just don't care about a certain subject, because as we can see here, African Americans have been and can be prominent in any field of study that they set their mind to. I am in awe of the legacy surrounding me.
This journey has sparked a few questions:
-Do graduate medical students do their internships and practicum work in the HU Hospital? Could i go their one day and have a classmate working on me? That might be cool.
-Do graduate medical students do their internships and practicum work in the HU Hospital? Could i go there one day and have a classmate working on me? That might be cool.
-Was The Quad always a dormitory? Because it seems that a lot of the buildings here are not what they used to be.
-What led Howard University to sever ties with the Miner's School?
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