Alabama NewsCenter — Alabama’s Southern Union State Community College celebrates 100 years of service

By Katie Jackson
Alabama Living

When 51 young men and women arrived in Wadley on Sept. 12, 1923, to start classes at a brand-new Bible college, they found a single partially constructed building on a red clay hill. But they also found a five-member faculty and a town full of citizens ready and willing to create a learning community that would last for a century.

Those students represented the first class of Bethlehem College, a private school chartered on June 2, 1922, by the Southern Convention of Christian Churches and charged with providing two years of affordable coeducational training to residents of Randolph and surrounding counties.

Today, that little school is known as Southern Union State Community College and though it is greatly changed – now with three campuses and a faculty of more than 200 educators serving more than 4,000 students – its commitment to community education remains the same.

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