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LeMoyne–Owen College (LOC or "LeMoyne-Owen") is a private historically black college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and located in Memphis, Tennessee.It resulted from the 1968 merger of historically black colleges and other schools established by northern Protestant missions during and after the American Civil War.
LOC is poised to tell its story comprehensively through a new documentary about the school’s history, which was made in partnership with WKNO. LeMoyne-Owen College documentary set to air on WKNO ...
Steele Hall, on the campus of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee, is a historic building built in 1914. It is the oldest building on campus. It was designed by architects Tandy & Foster. [2] It is a two-story brick building upon a full basement with all three floors used for academic purposes.
LeMoyne College (one of the two constituent parts of present-day LeMoyne-Owen College) has a founding year of 1871, but it was an elementary and secondary school at the time. The city's largest university, the University of Memphis, was not founded until 1912.
In 2020, the college received a $40 million gift from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, the largest financial donation in the school’s history. It provides LeMoyne-Owen with about $2 ...
Richard Williams was set to graduate from LeMoyne-Owen College in 1973, but owed the school $50 and couldn't pay it. On May 11, he finally graduated. Memphian, Vietnam vet graduates from LeMoyne ...
On August 26, 2019, Johnson-Dean began an 18-month stint as the interim president of LeMoyne–Owen College, succeeding Andrea Lewis Miller. [5] [1] She stepped down in January 2021 and was succeeded by Vernell Bennett-Fairs. [1] She was married to Matthew who died in March 2012. [2] Johnson-Dean is married to Willie Dean and has six children. [1]
Her parents were both educators who had attended LeMoyne College (now LeMoyne-Owen College). [5] Her father, Ernest Buford Abron, had sustained an injury playing football in college, and was thus unable to serve during World War II. He worked as a Pullman porter and later was a teacher. Abron's mother, Bernice Wise Abron, was a typist from ...