{ "document_id": 13886, "page": 4, "width_pt": 792, "height_pt": 612, "rotation": 90, "pipeline_version": "paddleocr-vl-1.6+paul-48", "engine": "paddleocr_vl", "source_run_id": 14000, "item_count": 15, "counts_by_type": { "footer": 2, "heading": 1, "text": 12 }, "build_ms": 2, "items": [ { "id": "p4.1", "order": 1, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 50.64, "t": 555.12, "r": 210.48, "b": 541.68 }, "text": "TIMELINE OF KSU HISTORY", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p4.2", "order": 2, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 87.12, "t": 522.72, "r": 702.24, "b": 482.16 }, "text": "1886 State Normal School for Colored Persons established by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly with Berea College alumnus John Henry Jackson elected as president. Jackson was the first president of the Kentucky Negro Education Association (KNEA), the representative body for Kentucky's black teachers and a lobbying group for educational issues." }, { "id": "p4.3", "order": 3, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 86.64, "t": 479.52, "r": 731.04, "b": 453.36 }, "text": "1887 Constructed at a cost of $7,000, Recitation Hall—now named Jackson Hall in honor of the school's first president—was the first and now-oldest building on campus. Classes began there on October 11, with three teachers and 55 students enrolled." }, { "id": "p4.4", "order": 4, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 87.36, "t": 450.24, "r": 682.56, "b": 424.32 }, "text": "1890 State Normal School for Colored Persons became a land-grant college and over the next seven years the departments of home economics, agriculture, mechanics were established. The school's first class of five students were graduated the same year." }, { "id": "p4.5", "order": 5, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 87.12, "t": 421.44, "r": 252, "b": 409.92 }, "text": "1893 A high school was established." }, { "id": "p4.6", "order": 6, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 87.6, "t": 406.8, "r": 698.16, "b": 366.24 }, "text": "1898 James Edward Givens becomes the school's second president. A Greenwood, Virginia native, Givens was a graduate of Harvard University. His presidency was marked by a significant increase in the school's land holdings, including the purchase of adjourning farmland which would prove critical in the future." }, { "id": "p4.7", "order": 7, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 86.88, "t": 363.12, "r": 711.12, "b": 322.08 }, "text": "1900 James Shelton Hathaway becomes the school's third president. A former schoolteacher and newspaper publisher, Hathaway earned both A.B. and A.M. degrees from Berea College, and an M.D. from Louisville National Medical College. His presidency was marked by significant academic progress and facility improvement at the institution." }, { "id": "p4.8", "order": 8, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 86.64, "t": 319.68, "r": 429.84, "b": 307.92 }, "text": "1902 School's name is changed to Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute." }, { "id": "p4.9", "order": 9, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 87.12, "t": 304.8, "r": 712.56, "b": 279.36 }, "text": "1907 John Henry Jackson returns as president. During his second term as president, the physical plant was enlarged tenfold and additional land purchases were requested." }, { "id": "p4.10", "order": 10, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 86.88, "t": 276, "r": 728.88, "b": 235.2 }, "text": "1908 Hume Hall was built and named in honor of Edgar Enoch Hume, a physician, legislator from Anderson County, Kentucky, and mayor of Frankfort, whose service to the school included political support of its founding and board of trustee service on the school's board for 17 years." }, { "id": "p4.11", "order": 11, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 86.64, "t": 232.56, "r": 724.56, "b": 148.56 }, "text": "1909 Paul William Lawrence Jones established a football team, which began the school's first intercollegiate athletics. Born in 1878 at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, Jones' more than two-decade-long career at the school began in 1907; he later became a professor of history and academic dean at the school. Having earned the nickname of \"Paul\" from classmates because of his early love of history and interest in John Paul Jones, he was a 1898 graduate of Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons, where along with teaching and administrative duties, he also helped form and served as coach and manager of early baseball, football, and track teams at the school, which earned him the title of \"Father of Athletics.\"" }, { "id": "p4.12", "order": 12, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 87.12, "t": 145.44, "r": 323.28, "b": 133.44 }, "text": "1910 James Shelton Hathaway returns as president." }, { "id": "p4.13", "order": 13, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 86.64, "t": 131.04, "r": 721.44, "b": 60.96 }, "text": "1912 Green Pickney Russell becomes the school's sixth president. Born in Logan County, Kentucky and educated at Berea College (A.B.; A.M.) and at Wilberforce University (LL.D.), Russell was the first licensed African-American teacher in Lexington, Kentucky—where Russell Elementary School was named in his honor. During this tenure, the institution matured from a vocational school offering secondary education to a four-year college and gained modern fiscal support from the state legislature due to Russell's pursuance of larger instructional programs." }, { "id": "p4.14", "order": 14, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 70.32, "t": 36.24, "r": 167.28, "b": 26.88 }, "text": "KSU Fact Book 2018-2019", "attrs": { "block_label": "footer" } }, { "id": "p4.15", "order": 15, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 713.76, "t": 35.76, "r": 721.44, "b": 27.12 }, "text": "2", "attrs": { "block_label": "number" } } ], "excluded_furniture": { "first": [], "last": [] } }