Blue Mountain College

Short description: Private Baptist college in Mississippi, United States

For the New Zealand school, see Tapanui. For the unrelated television series, see Blue Mountain State.

Blue Mountain College

Former names

| Blue Mountain Female Institute (1873–1876)
Blue Mountain Female College (1910–1955)

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Type| Private college
Established| 1873

Religious affiliation

| Baptist (Mississippi Baptist Convention)
Students| 450
Location|

Blue Mountain

Mississippi

United States

Campus| Rural
|u}}rs| Navy Blue, Light Blue & Gold

Nickname| Toppers
Website| www.bmc.edu

Blue Mountain College (BMC) is a private Baptist college in Blue Mountain, Mississippi. Founded as a women's college in 1873, the college's board of trustees voted unanimously for the college to go fully coeducational in 2005.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Notable alumni
* 3 Athletics
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

Blue Mountain Female College

By 1873, the college was founded as a woman's college by Confederate Brigadier-General Mark Perrin Lowrey, a pastor who was known as "a preacher general" during the war. Blue Mountain Female Institute, as it was called at first, started with 50 students with Lowrey and his two daughters serving as the faculty. In 1877, the college was officially chartered by the State of Mississippi. Lowrey, his sons W. T. and B. G., and grandson Lawrence Lowrey all served as the first four presidents. By 1910, the institution was using the name Blue Mountain Female College.[1]

After the sudden death of President Lowrey in 1960, a longtime professor at the school, Dr. Wilfred Tyler, became the first non-Lowrey family president followed by Dr. E. Harold Fisher in 1965. Dr. Bettye Rogers Coward served as the seventh president from 2001 to 2012. Dr. Janice I. Nicholson, a BMC alumna, served as transitional president prior to Dr. Barbara Childers McMillin's becoming the eighth president on August 1, 2012.

Originally an independently owned institution, the college was turned over to the Mississippi Baptist Convention in 1920 by the Lowrey Family. It remained focused on women's education until 1956 when a program to train men for church-related vocations was started. In October 2005, the college's board of trustees voted to make the school fully coeducational.

## Notable alumni

* George Duke Humphrey - 9th president of Mississippi State University.
* Dusti Bongé Artist, Biloxi, Mississippi.
* Annibel Jenkins, English scholar, professor at Georgia Tech

## Athletics

The Blue Mountain athletic teams are called the Toppers. The college is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC; formerly known as Georgia–Alabama–Carolina Conference (GACC) until after the 2003–04 school year) since the 2013–14 academic year. The Toppers previously competed in the TranSouth Athletic Conference (TranSouth or TSAC) from 1996–97 to 2012–13. Men's sports began competition in the 2007–08 academic year, when the school became co-educational.

Blue Mountain competes in 18 intercollegiate sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball. Club sports include men's & women's archery, bass fishing and powerlifting.

## References

1. ↑ "The New Albany Meeting of the Miss. Press Association." (in en). Vicksburg Evening Post: p. 4. 25 May 1910. https://www.newspapers.com/image/209744825/.

## External links

* Official website
* Official athletics website

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Southern States Athletic Conference

* Blue Mountain
* Brewton–Parker
* Dalton State
* Faulkner
* Florida College
* Loyola New Orleans
* Middle Georgia State
* Mobile
* Stillman
* William Carey

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* e

Private colleges and universities in Mississippi

* Belhaven University
* Blue Mountain College
* Millsaps College
* Mississippi College
* Mississippi College School of Law
* Reformed Theological Seminary
* Rust College
* Southeastern Baptist College
* Tougaloo College
* Wesley Biblical Seminary
* William Carey University

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Southern Baptist-related schools, colleges and universities

* Anderson (SC)
* Averett
* Baptist College of Florida
* Baptist University of the Américas
* Baylor
* Blue Mountain
* Bluefield
* Brewton–Parker
* California Baptist
* Campbell
* Campbellsville
* Carson–Newman
* Cedarville
* Charleston Southern
* Chowan
* Clear Creek Baptist
* Criswell
* Cumberlands (KY)
* Dallas Baptist
* Davis
* East Texas Baptist
* Fruitland Baptist
* Gardner–Webb
* Gateway Seminary
* Georgetown (KY)
* Hannibal–LaGrange
* Hardin–Simmons
* Houston Baptist
* Howard Payne
* Jacksonville (TX)
* Judson
* Liberty
* Louisiana College
* Mars Hill
* Mary Hardin–Baylor
* Mid-America Seminary
* Midwestern Seminary
* Mississippi College
* Missouri Baptist
* Mobile
* New Orleans Seminary
* North Greenville
* Northeastern Baptist
* Oklahoma Baptist
* Ouachita
* Samford
* Shorter
* Southeastern Seminary
* Southern Seminary
* Southwest Baptist
* Southwestern Seminary
* Truett-McConnell
* Union (TN)
* Wayland Baptist
* William Carey
* Williams Baptist
* Wingate
* Yellowstone Baptist

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American women's colleges that became coeducational

Became
coeducational|

* Adelphi
* Albertus Magnus
* Andrew
* Anna Maria
* Barber-Scotia
* Beaver
* Bennington
* Blue Mountain College
* Brescia
* Cabrini
* Caldwell
* Carlow
* Cazenovia
* Chestnut Hill
* Chowan
* Columbia (MO)
* Connecticut College
* Dominican (CA)
* Dominican (NY)
* Drexel College of Medicine
* Elms
* Elmira
* Emmanuel (MA)
* Felician
* Florida State
* Fontbonne
* Georgia College
* Georgian Court
* Goucher
* Greensboro
* Holy Family (PA)
* Holy Family (WI)
* Holy Names
* Hood
* Hunter
* Huston-Tillotson
* Immaculata
* Incarnate Word
* James Madison
* Keuka
* LaGrange
* Lake Erie
* Lasell
* Lesley
* Lindenwood
* Longwood
* MacMurray (closing in 2020)
* Manhattanville
* Mary Hardin–Baylor
* Mary Washington
* Marygrove
* Marymount (CA)
* Marymount (VA)
* Marymount Manhattan
* Marywood
* Mercy (NY)
* Mercyhurst
* Midway
* Misericordia
* Mississippi University for Women
* Mount Mercy
* Mount St. Joseph
* Mount St. Vincent
* Montevallo
* Moravian
* Notre Dame (OH)
* Notre Dame de Namur
* Ohio Dominican
* Our Lady of Holy Cross
* Our Lady of the Lake
* Pine Manor
* Queens (NC)
* Radford
* Randolph
* Regis (MA)
* Rosemont
* Rivier
* St. Francis (IL)
* Saint Joseph (CT)
* St. Joseph's (NY)
* St. Mary's (MD)
* St. Scholastica
* Saint Xavier (IL)
* Sarah Lawrence
* Salve Regina
* Seton Hill
* Shorter
* Skidmore
* Southern Virginia
* Spalding
* Stevenson
* Texas Woman's
* Thomas More (KY)
* Trocaire
* UNC Greensboro
* University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
* Vassar
* Virginia Union
* Viterbo
* Washington College of Law
* Webster
* Wells
* Wheaton (MA)
* William Peace
* William Woods
* Wilson (PA)
* Winthrop

Coordinate
colleges|

* Douglass (merged with Rutgers University)
* Evelyn College for Women (with Princeton University; closed)
* Georgia State College for Women (with Georgia School of Technology to form Georgia College & State University)
* H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College (merged with Tulane University)
* Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (merged with Carnegie Mellon University)
* Maryhill College (merged with St. Edward's University)
* Mt Vernon College (with George Washington University)
* Pembroke (merged with Brown University)
* Radcliffe College (merged with Harvard University)
* University of Mary Washington (with University of Virginia)

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