Photograph of Dr. Edwin P. Booth, professor emeritus at Boston University's School of Theology, delivering one of the Willson Lectures at McMurry College in 1964.

A photograph of two students standing at a table in the old McMurry library at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. Behind the students is a wall lined with bookshelves filled with library books.

Photograph of a student being hooded at the Spring 1965 McMurry College graduation ceremony. Two faculty members hood the graduate, while another claps.

Photograph of Paul Engelstad, the director of the McMurry College Chanters.

Photograph of four men seated at a table during a meeting with papers spread before them. They are (left to right): Dr. Gordon R. Bennett (President of McMurry College from 1958-1970), Howard Ramsey (Dean of McMurry), Dr. E. D. Lendreth (Methodist Minister from Lamesa, Texas), and Rigdon Edwards (1931 graduate of McMurry from Sweetwater, Texas).

A photograph of three men with shovels at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Center. From left to right the men with the shovels are: Harold Crawford, Jack Grissett, and J. C. Hunter.

A photograph of the model for the proposed Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Center at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. The building is composed of several boxy structures with a pavilion before the entrance.

Photograph of Jewell Posey (left) and Elizabeth Myatt (right). Posey served as Professor of Religion and English at McMurry College from 1931-1943 and again from 1961-1972. Myatt served as Professor of Spanish at McMurry from 1923-1925 and again from 1931-1969.

Photograph of five members of the McMurry College Coordinating Board, taken 1963-1966. They pose in front of a brick building.

Photograph of Speech instructor Clarence Brady wearing a feathered headdress and carrying a baton in front of a piano at McMurry University.

Photograph of Regie Brown, Chanter president, playing the bells in Radford Hall.

Photograph of ten members of the McMurry College Board of Trustees.

Photograph of several McMurry College art students working on a project. Newspapers are spread out on the table in front of each student.

Photograph of three McMurry College art students examining a painting of a forest. Several other paintings are hanging on the wall.

A photograph of an unidentified male donor taking a first shovelful of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jay-Rollins Library at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas.

A photograph of students socializing in the lounge area of the Martin Residence Hall at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas.

Photograph of Bert Affleck, campus minister to McMurry University, reading a document in a library. Two unnamed men look over his shoulder.

Photograph of Mrs. Carl Calcote (left), Mrs. Ed Cole (center), and Dr. Dominic J. Bisignano (right). Bisignano holds a document, and all three appear to read it.

Photograph of the members of the McMurry College Sharps and Flats act on a stage. The women sit in the first row, and the men kneel behind them in the back row.

Photograph of Sherwood E. Suter leading a class of largely female art students at McMurry College.

Photograph of Dr. Chester T. French (center) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, taken in May 1965 when French received an honorary degree from McMurry College. French was a civic leader and Methodist layman. Flanking Dr. French is Dr. Gordon R. Bennett (right), who served as McMurry President from 1958-1970, and an unnamed man (left).

Portrait of Byoung-Kee Min reading an issue of Time Magazine. This photograph was taken in July of 1965.

Photograph of the 1969 groundbreaking ceremony for the Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Center at McMurry College in Abilene, Texas. The man at the podium is McMurry President Gordon Bennett. The man below him is Don Dotson, and the man with the shovel is W.B. “Dub” Rushing. The man on the right is J.M. Willson, Board Chairman.

A photograph of an unidentified woman donor with eyeglasses shoveling dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jay-Rollins Library at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas.