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| Cutler Hall |
The topic for this post was defiantly the hardest for me to come up with thus far. Athens and Ohio University has so much history located all around it. But I think that some of the most important history is Ohio University in general. Ohio University became the first public college in the northwest territory in 1804. It was founded by a man named Manasseh Cutler (hence Cutler Hall, which is the oldest building on campus). The University didn't open for its first classes until 1808. One of the first students to graduate form OU was Thomas Ewing and he went on to become a senator as well as a cabinet member/adviser for a few different U.S. presidents. Graduating around the same time as Ewing was John Templeton who because the first African American to graduate from Ohio University and the fourth African American to graduate from any college in the nation! Templeton-Blackburn Auditorium is actually named after the first male and female African American graduates from the University.(After doing research on the auditorium, there are a lot of famous people/musicians that have come speak/play here!). On the Ohio Alumni website ( http://www.ohioalumni.org/notable-alumni) you can find a whole list of different people who graduated from OU and went on to do big things with their life.
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| Thomas Ewing |
Ohio University has so much history to it not only within it's physical culture but also within its people that have passed through here.
I like how you chose to do Ohio University in general. I enjoyed reading your post because most of the information I did not know. I think it is cool how they named the auditorium after the first male and female African American graduates from the university. I also did not know that a few Presidents graduated from here also, which I think is a cool fact (I'll have to look that up and find out which ones). Nice job with giving us a brief history of the university!
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