Walk of Fame (Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.) -- 1950 - 1970; Holt, Hamilton, 1872 - 1951; Sullivan House (Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.) -- 1950 - 1970; Woolson House (Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.) -- 1950 - 1970; Knowles Hall II...
The Walk of Fame, created by Hamilton Holt in 1929, was featured on a postcard in the 1950s or 1960s. Along the walk are stones representing notable visitors to the campus as well as places and personalities throughout history. The Walk passes...
Holt, Hamilton, 1872 - 1951 -- Homes & Haunts; Gauge Hall (Woodstock, Conn.); Walk of Fame (Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.)
A picture of Gauge Hall which adjoined President Holt's home in Woodstock, Connecticut. Note the large wheel shaped stone that would later grace Holt's Walk of Fame on the Rollins College campus.
McKean, Hugh (1908 - 1995); Low, Juliette (1860 - 1927); Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) -- Walk of Fame -- 1950 - 1960; Students -- Florida -- Winter Park -- 1950 - 1960;
On October 30, 1960, President McKean added a tile from the home of Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, to the Walk of Fame. Here is President McKean with three out of the six hundred local Girl Scouts who attended the ceremony.
Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.); Virginia, Lake (Fla.); World War, 1914 - 1918
In 1894, Rollins College adopted the colors of blue and gold, which became the team name for all athletics. However, in 1921, a new name appeared as the team name, inspired by the Naval training vessel on Lake Virginia during the First World War -...
Rogers, Fred McFeely, 1928 - 2003; Bornstein, Rita, 1936 -
Fred Rogers lays his stone in the Walk of Fame as Rollins College President Rita Bornstein and fans watch. The stone reads: "Fred McFeely Rogers; 1951; Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Rollins College alumni Douglas Brockington and President Thaddeus Seymour pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on January 15, 1983, the anniversary of King's birth, by dedicating a stone to King in the Walk of Fame. The stone reads: "From Atlanta,...
Bornstein, Rita, 1936 - ; Glover, Danny Lebern, 1946 - ; Justice, Felix; Knowles Memorial Chapel (Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.) -- 1990 - 2000
On November 6, 1997, Danny Glover and Felix Justice came to Rollins College to read the poetry of Langston Hughes in the Knowles Memorial Chapel as part of Africanfest. Following the reading, President Bornstein presided over the ceremony in which...
On June 4, 1958, the eighty-eighth birthday of Dr. Edwin Grover, President McKean placed a stone in the Walk of Fame to celebrate the contributions over several decades of the first Professor of Books to Rollins College. The stone reads: Edwin...
Reardon, John Robert; Bornstein, Rita, 1936 - ; Rogers, Sara Joanne (Byrd); Rogers, Fred McFeely, 1928 - 2003; LeRoy, Edmund
Mrs. Joanne Rogers, wife of Fred Rogers, places the stone for John Reardon in the Walk of Fame with assistance from President Bornstein. Music Professor Ed LeRoy stands in the background. A noted bariton, Reardon went on to be a part of the...
President Seymour had Hamilton Holt's daughter, Beatrice Rosenthal, lay his stone in the Walk of Fame during commencement week, 1979. The stone reads: "Hamilton Holt; Woodstock Conn.; Eighth President; 1926 - 1949; Rollins College."
Holt, Hamilton, 1872 - 1951; Augell, James Rowland, 1869 - 1949; Yale University -- People -- 1930 - 1940; Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) -- People -- 1930 - 1940; College Administrators -- 1930 - 1940; Walk of Fame (Rollins College, Winter...
Hamilton Holt shows Yale President James Augell the stone of President William Howard Taft in the Walk of Fame when Augell visted the Rollins College campus in the 1930s.
Angelou, Maya, 1928, 1928 - ; Bornstein, Rita, 1936 - ; Mills Memorial Building (Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.) -- 1990 - 2000
Maya Angelou, given a stone in the Walk of Fame, came for the laying ceremony in January of 1994. Her stone is located in front of the Mills Building. The stone reads: "Maya Angelou; Poet Professor; Stamps. Ark."