WCU hosting “Big Birthday Bash” to celebrate 125 years

WCU is throwing their own birthday party on Tuesday, August 26, and everyone’s invited! The party starts at 4 p.m. and will include a picnic on the A.K. Hinds University Center Lawn which will have barbecue, veggie burgers, hamburgers, hot dogs and some traditional fair foods like funnel cakes. Since it’s a birthday bash, the […]

Let the celebration begin!

The Cullowhee community huddled into the University Center Grand Room Thursday afternoon to get the party started in style. Festivities began on the catwalk as university students, alumni, faculty, and staff modeled clothing designs ranging from the late 1800’s to now. A brand new line of clothing closed out the show, with a variety of […]

WCU ready to celebrate 125 years

It was August 5, 1889 that Western Carolina University began to take shape. 18 aspiring teachers filed in for the first day of class at what was then a primary school called Cullowhee Academy. At the time, Cullowhee Academy was nothing more than an unpainted schoolhouse with two rooms. The only instructor, Robert Lee Madison […]