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[edit]Student life
[edit]Clubs and Organizations
There are over fifty student-run clubs and organizations at Spring Hill College. There are community service clubs, ministry organizations, athletic and academic clubs.
| Academic | Athletic | Ministry/Service | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Sigma Nu Club (Jesuit Honor Society) | Rugby Club | Knights of Columbus | Ping Pong Club | |
| Theta Alpha Kappa Club (Honor Society of Religious Studies and Theology) | Men's Volleyball Club | Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary | Anime Club | |
| Sigma Tau Delta Club (English Honor Society) | SHC Cheerleaders | TAG3 | Badger Book Club | |
| Pi Sigma Alpha Club (Political Science Honor Society) | Ultimate Frisbee Club | SHAPe Community | Delta Alpha Chi | |
| Math Club | Habitat for Humanity | |||
| Philosophy Club | ||||
| English Club | ||||
| Delta Mu Delta (Business Honor Society) | ||||
| History Club |
[edit]Greek life
There are six national Greek organizations on campus.
Fraternities:
Sororities:
The Greek organizations participate in a "deferred recruitment" process, meaning that the formal recruiting activities occur at the beginning of the spring semester, as opposed to the more largely followed practice of recruitment at the beginning of the fall semester.
[edit]Intramural sports
Spring Hill College has a student-run intramural program. The following sports are offered:
- Sand volleyball (4-on-4 Co-Rec, up to 8 on team)
- Basketball (5-on-5)
- Soccer (6-on-6, including the goalie, up to 10 on team)
[edit]Athletics
Spring Hill College competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference as the Spring Hill College Badgers. Men and women Spring Hill College Badgers field teams in baseball, basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. The Spring Hill football team played its first game in 1900, but was disbanded in 1941.
Spring Hill College has maintained a baseball team since its first intercollegiate play in 1889.[12] Currently, the Spring Hill College baseball team plays its home games at Stan Galle Field ("The Pit"), the oldest continually used college baseball field in the country.[13] A number of former major league players have used the field including such legends as Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron.[2] Notable baseball alumni include Blake Stein (former pitcher for the Kansas City Royals) and Jim Hendry (general manager of the Chicago Cubs).
[edit]Controversy
Spring Hill was involved in controversy when on July 27, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald spoke at Spring Hill about life in the Soviet Union, just months before assassinating President John F. Kennedy.[14]
[edit]Notables
[edit]Alumni
- Paul Morphy 1855 - aged 18 at graduation. Considered to have been the strongest chess master of his time, as well as the first recorded chess prodigyin history.[15] In 1957, a centennial monument dedicated to Morphy's 1857 victory in the First American Chess Conference was erected behind Mobile Hall. It was presented by the Log Cabin National Chess Affiliation (now defunct).
- Samuel D. McEnery, Governor of Louisiana; Louisiana Supreme Court; United States Senator from Louisiana.
- Miller Reese Hutchison 1895. Noted inventor of the first electric hearing aid and worked at the Edison Laboratory.
- Stephen Mallory, Secretary of the Navy for the Confederate States of America.
- Dominic Mauncy, 3rd Bishop of Mobile.
- Arthur C. Watson was a Natchitoches, Louisiana, lawyer, civic leader, politician, and philanthropist who succeeded despite the loss of the use of both legs from polio. He graduated from Spring Hill College in 1930
- Joe Langan 1951 - Alabama state senator and mayor of Mobile, Alabama, and is credited with having maintained the peace during the racial turmoil of the 1960s, when many other major cities in the Southeast were attracting national attention because of their racism.[16]
- Jeremiah Denton Admiral, USN. One of the American POWs during the Vietnam War He is perhaps best known for a TV interview he gave during his time as a prisoner of war, in which he blinked the word "torture" in morse code during what was supposed to be a North-Vietnamese propaganda piece on the "humane" treatment of detainees.
- Alexis Herman, U.S. Secretary of Labor.
- John T. Schuessler Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Wendy's International, Inc..
- Patricia Krenwinkel was a student at the college for less than a semester. She eventually dropped out and joined "The Family", the followers of the murderer Charles Manson.
- Nick Bollettieri 1953 tennis coach.
- Blake Stein 2005. baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League.
- Jim Hendry, Vice President/General Manager of the Chicago Cubs. Former baseball player at Spring Hill.
- Colman McCarthy, leading peace educator, founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, and former columnist at The Washington Post.
- Todd Schuler, 1999, Maryland State Delegate (D).
- T. Semmes Walmsley, mayor of New Orleans.
- Dana Veth, professional Bahamian soccer player
[edit]Faculty
- Edward Troye, a mid-19th century artist. He taught French and drawing at the college from 1849 to 1855.[17]
[edit]Presidents of the college
- Bishop Michael Portier, D.D., first bishop of Mobile, founded Spring Hill College on May 1, 1830.
- Bishop Mathias Loras, D.D. 1830-1832
- Bishop John Stephen Bazin, D.D. 1832-1836
- Peter Mauvernay 1836-1839
- Bishop John Stephen Bazin, D.D. 1839-1840
- Dominic F. Bach, S.P.M. 1840-1842
- Bishop John Stephen Bazin, D.D. 1842-1844
- J. P. Bellier, C.J.M. 1844-1845
- A. Desgaultieres 1845
- Claude Rampoon 1845-1846
- Bishop John Stephen Bazin, D.D. 1846-1847
- Thomas Rapier 1847
- Francis S. Gautrelet, S.J. 1847-1859
- Anthony Jourdant, S.J. 1859-1862
- Francis S. Gautrelet, S.J. 1863-1865
- Aloysius Curioz, S.J. 1865-1868
- John Montillot, S.J. 1868-1875
- Dominic Beaudequin, S.J. 1875-1880
- John Downey, S.J. 1880-1883
- David McKiniry, S.J. 1883-1887
- James Lonegan, S.J. 1887-1896
- Michael S. Moynihan, S.J. 1896-1899
- William Tyrrell, S.J. 1899-1907
- Francis X. Twellmeyer, S.J. 1907-1913
- Edward Cummings, S.J. 1913-1919
- Joseph C. Kearns, S.J. 1919-1922
- Michael McNally, S.J. 1922-1925
- Joseph M. Walsh, S.J. 1925-1931
- John J. Druhan, S.J. 1931-1938
- W. Doris O'Leary, S.J. 1938-1946
- W. Patrick Donnelly, S.J. 1946-1952
- Andrew C. Smith, S.J. 1952-1959
- A. William Crandell, S.J. 1959-1966
- William J. Rimes, S.J. 1966-1972
- Paul Smallwood Tipton, S.J. 1972-1989
- Donald I. MacLean, S.J. 1989
- William J. Rewak, S.J. 1989-1997
- Gregory F. Lucey, S.J. 1997-2009
- Richard Salmi, S.J. 2009–present
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