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	<title>Augusto Named Academic All-American</title>
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	2009 - UNA senior Tassia Augusto was named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s Soccer Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. A Health, Physical Education and Recreation major, Augustohas a cumulative 3.67 grade point average and was named first-team Academic All-America.
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	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 8:39:39 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Trophy Named for UNA Alumnus Harlon Hill</title>
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	1986 - The NCAA Division II names its player of the year award for UNA alumnus
Harlon Hill. After playing football for UNA – then Florence State Teachers
College – Hill went on to a successful NFL career, playing for the Chicago
Bears (1954-61), the Pittsburg Steelers (1962) and the Detroit Lions (1962).
He was the NFL’s Rookie of the Year in 1954 and Most Valuable Player in
1955.

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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 1986 10:20:14 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>“When a Man Loves a Woman” produced by Quin Ivy</title>
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	1966 - Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman” is produced by Quin Ivy, who would
later become a professor at UNA. “When a Man Loves a Woman,” recorded in
Muscle Shoals, hit No. 1 on the pop and R/B charts. Ivy would teach at UNA
from 1980 to 1996.

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	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 1966 12:25:12 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Celtics/Hawks played first basketball game in Flowers Hall</title>
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	1972 - The Boston Celtics and the Atlanta hawks played the first basketball game in Flowers Hall on Oct. 5, 1972. The 
game was an exhibition that drew a crowd of more than 4,000. Since Flowers Hall opened, it has been the scene 
of 382 UNA victories and only 117 defeats in more than 30 years of history.

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	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 1972 10:19:10 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Lions win third straight national title</title>
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	1995 - The Lion football team wins its third straight national title with a 27-7 win over Pittsburg State University. The victory marked the first time in NCAA scholarship football (Division I, I-AA or II) that a school had won three consecutive national championships. With UNA’s 41-1 record over that three-year period, it also marked the first time in the history of college football that a team on any level had won 40 or more games in only three seasons.

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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 1995 13:15:51 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>UNA’s newly created Lindsey Archive</title>
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	2008 - Ernest Borgnine and UNA alumnus George Lindsey donate their collections to UNA’s newly created Lindsey Archive. Their collections include, among many other items, all of Lindsey’s original scripts from “The Andy Griffith Show” and Borgnine’s original script from “Marty,” the 1955 film that garnered Borgnine the Oscar for Best Actor. The film also won Best Picture. Since opening, the Lindsey Archive has also collected pieces from entertainers such as Norman Lloyd and James Best.
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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:52:12 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross</title>
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	1887 - UNA alumnus Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross becomes governor of Texas, an office he served until 1891. He had previously served as a Texas Ranger, a soldier and a Texas State Senator. After his four years as governor,he served as president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&amp;amp;M University.

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	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 1887 12:25:08 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>UNA hires its first female faculty members</title>
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	1878 - UNA hires its first female faculty members. The previous year, the school
had graduated its first female students, with three of the four graduates
being women. Five years earlier, in 1873, the school had become one of the
first coeducational institutions in the nation, with about 31 women
enrolled.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1878 12:06:07 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Dillon Hodges makes history with his guitar</title>
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	2009 - His second semester at UNA, Dillon Hodges signed a five-year deal to exclusively represent DHR Music Experience, one of the world’s leading guitar distributors and a premier dealer ofleft-handed guitars. In 2007, Hodges had earned national fame as a leading guitarist, when he was named the Flat Picking Guitar National Champion. In fall 2008, he toured with the Nashville-based group Missy Raines and the New Hip. Two of his original songs are featured on the group’s debut CD, “Inside Out.”

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	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:50:43 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Lloyd Jones, UNA bands director</title>
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	2000 - Lloyd Jones succeeds his father, Dr. Edd Jones, as UNA bands director. Edd Jones was UNA’s longest-serving bands director, having entered the position in 1978. UNA’s nationally renowned bands include the Pride of Dixie Marching Band, the Jazz Combo, the Studio Jazz Band, the Symphonic Band and the Wind Symphony.

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	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2000 10:55:15 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>W.C. Handy,  “Father of the Blues”</title>
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	1995 - Several original copies of autographed sheet music by famed jazz and blues musician W.C. Handy are donated to the UNA archives collection. Handy, known as the “father of the blues,” was a Florence native. Named in his honor, the annual W.C. Handy Music Festival of the Shoals features more than 250 events, including performances by several local and national music groups and recording artists.

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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 1995 15:07:44 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Harrison Plaza Fountain</title>
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	2002 - UNA dedicates the Harrison Plaza Fountain to Laura M. and Dr. Donald C. Harrison, whose charitable donation made the fountain possible. The 800-ton, 28-foot-tall fountain is built of marble mined in Florence, Italy. The fountain, as well as the rest of the plaza, had been in the planning stages of the campus since the Olmsted Brothers, famous for designing New York City’s Central Park, designed the plaza for UNA in 1929.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2002 9:16:55 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Alabama’s first four-year degree in culinary arts</title>
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	2007 - UNA announces the state of Alabama’s first four-year degree in culinary arts. The program trains students in culinary skills as well as food service planning, hospitality facilities management, culinary math other skills needed of professional chefs.

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	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 9:15:36 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Habitat for Humanity builds zero-energy home</title>
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	2008 - The UNA Habitat for Humanity chapter builds the first zero-energy solar-powered Habitat home in Alabama. Built with environmentally friendly materials, including all Energy Star appliances, the home was designed to conserve energy and leave as small of a carbon footprint as possible. But that’s not all. Because it is serviced by Sheffield Utilities, the home’s owners have actually been able to sell unused energy back to their utilities provider.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 9:14:26 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>The Ray Brothers, a student band</title>
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	2008 - A student band, the Ray Brothers, record their first album, “Missing the Point.” With its jazz, rock and funk sound, the group has since had numerous successes, including the award for Best Pop Album of the Year at the Muscle Shoals Music Awards. You can hear the band at a variety of events around the Shoals area, including the UNA football tailgate parties.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:31:03 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>First international Homecoming Queen</title>
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	2007 - Charmy Gupta, an MBA student from Gujarat, India, becomes UNA’s first international student to be crowned Homecoming Queen.

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	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:29:01 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>UNA becomes home to its first live mascot</title>
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	1974 - UNA becomes home to its first live mascot, Leo I. The campus has been home to three other lions since, including its two current inhabitants, Leo III and Una. Leo III and Una live in the 12,764-square-foot, state-of-the-art George Carroll Lion Habitat near the main entrance of campus and attend several major university events, including the annual Homecoming Parade and many home athletic games.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1974 10:27:27 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Florence State Normal School</title>
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	1872 - Florence Wesleyan University becomes Florence State Normal School when the Methodist Church deeds it to the state of Alabama, making it the first state-supported teachers college in the South.

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	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1872 14:53:38 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Actor George Lindsey graduates</title>
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	1952 - Actor George Lindsey graduates from Florence State Teachers College. Lindsey, later famous for his role as Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show,” was not only active in the university’s theater department, but was a quarterback for the football team. He was later presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1992 and, in 1998, helped establish the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1952 14:49:39 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>President Rivers moves university to Florence</title>
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	1854 - Dr. R.H. Rivers, president of LaGrange College, leads most of the college’s students and all but one faculty member from LaGrange Mountain in northeast Franklin County, Ala., to Florence. After moving to Florence, LaGrange College is reincorporated at Florence Wesleyan University.

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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 1854 11:33:20 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Kilby Laboratory School</title>
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	1850 - LaGrange College adds a grammar school. Now the University of North Alabama, the institution today offers the only university-owned and operated elementary laboratory school – Kilby Laboratory School – in Alabama.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1850 11:30:19 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>First graduate of LaGrange College</title>
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	1833 - J.D. Malone, of Limestone County, becomes the first graduate of LaGrange College, now the University of North Alabama.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1833 9:13:40 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>LaGrange College opens it doors</title>
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	1830 - The University of North Alabama opens its doors as LaGrange College in northeast Franklin County, Ala. The college arose from the idea offered at a Nov. 28, 1826 meeting of the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church to establish a college that would not be “religious or theological.” Eight days after its opening, the Alabama legislature issued a charter for the institution, making it the first state-chartered institution to begin operation in Alabama.

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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1830 9:42:37 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>One of the first coeducational institutions</title>
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	1873 - Florence State Normal School becomes one of the first coeducational institutions in the nation, with about 31 women enrolled. When the college had its first graduating class as Florence State Normal School in 1877, three of the four graduates were women.

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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 1873 14:13:28 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Football Program Reinstated</title>
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	1949 - President Dr. E.B. Norton announces that the college will reinstate the football program and begin competing that fall. The season, under the direction of Coach Hal Self, ends with a 4-5 record. The following year brings in the teams’ first winning season, ending at 5-4. 

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	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 1949 15:12:55 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Flowers Leads Baseball Team to 15-3 Season</title>
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	1948 - Coach Flowers leads the baseball team to a 15-3 season — Flowers’ last and most successful season. For his efforts and contributions to the university, the basketball arena is named Flowers Hall in his honor when it is built in 1972, also Flowers’ last year as UNA’s athletic director. 

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	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1948 15:11:26 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>T.S. Stribling wins Pulitzer Prize</title>
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	1933 - Graduate T.S. Stribling wins the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Store, the second book in his trilogy chronicling the Vaiden family. Stribling, a leader of the Southern Rennaissance, set his trilogy in Florence, Ala., where he also lived for a time working in various law offices. 

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	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 1933 15:10:25 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>First Collegiate Baseball Team</title>
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	1932 - The institution fields its first collegiate baseball team under coach Eddie Flowers.  Coach Flowers was not only the university’s first baseball coach but was the athletic director, a professor in the physical education department, and coach of the first basketball and tennis teams. 

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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1932 15:10:00 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>Florence State Normal School Football</title>
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	1912 - Florence State Normal School competes in its first-ever football game. The match, against Sewanee University, is a crushing defeat of 101 – 0.  It is their only game of the year. The team’s performance over the next 16 years also fails to meet expectations, and football is official dropped from the athletic program in 1928 after losing twice to Marion Institute, 86-0 and 85-0.

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	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1912 15:07:54 CST</pubDate>
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	<title>History and Civil Government of Alabama</title>
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	1892 - Professor Newton W. Bates publishes the first textbook on the history of Alabama for use in schools. The book, History and Civil Government of Alabama, was the “outgrowth of five years’ work in the classroom,” Bates states in his introduction, attributing his efforts to the need for a more substantive treatment of Alabama’s history.

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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1892 15:06:44 CST</pubDate>
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