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Dec. 10, 2003 Historical Society Donates 110-year-old Photo to Blinn College
Blinn College will restore and display a 110-year-old faculty photo donated by the Burleson County Historical Society. Society members discovered the framed photo in a closet at the museum in the courthouse in Caldwell. “It’s uncertain who donated the photo to our organization, but we felt it would be best to give it to Blinn College,” past Burleson County Historical Society president William Giesenschlag said. Giesenschlag is a Blinn history instructor. The photo features the pictures of 38 members of the 1893 faculty - “Fakultat von Blinn Memorial College.” The photo notes that Blinn was part of the “Suedliche Duetsche Conferenz” – the Southern German Conference. The college was established in Brenham in 1883 as Mission Institute to train young men to become Methodist ministers. In 1889, the name was changed to Blinn Memorial College in honor of the Reverend Christian Blinn of New York who donated a considerable sum of money after a visit to Brenham.
In 1927, it was reorganized as a junior college. It was merged in 1930 with Southwestern University in Georgetown. In 1934, its relationship with the Methodist denomination was ended and the citizens of Brenham operated it until 1937 under a private charter. Following an election by the citizens of Washington County, Blinn College became the state’s first countywide public junior college district. It is now the state’s 10th largest public two-year college with campuses in Brenham, Bryan and Schulenburg.
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