Students enrolled at UTM today should be able to appreciate the university more after viewing the exhibit “Photos of the Past History of UTM in Pictures.”

The exhibit, located in the Special Collections section of the Paul Meek Library, opened Tuesday, Oct. 29, and will close Nov. 20. Students are able to view the exhibit Monday - Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Currently enrolled students that complain about the long lines of registration, should appreciate the technology of modern day computers.

This exhibit displays black and white photographs of UTM through the years. The photograph seen below, “Class registration, ABL Building, 1953,” is one of the many works on display. Students wait clustered in lines for registration in what looks like the library part of the building. Clothes lines are stretched across the room with each course written on a piece of paper and folded over the clothes line.

Another photograph pictured a stressed out male student taking a study break in a Freeman Hall dorm room in 1964. According to the caption, Lovelace Hall for Men was contructed in 1921 to accomodate the growing number of male students enrolled at the Hall-Moody Normal School. When the University of Tennessee bought the Hall-Moody property, the dormitory’s name was changed to Freeman Hall. It housed male students until 1973 when it was torn down to clear the site for construction of Gooch Hall.

One picture that was really interesting was of Dr. Jerald Ogg, dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. Ogg can be seen in the “Graduation Candidates Commencement , 1976”. Ogg is pictured in the top left corner of the photograph looking to his right next to a man with a beard.

A picture taken in 1913 had UTM students sitting in a business classroom located in downtown Martin. Students are sitting in their desk typing on typewriters with a trash can next to each desk. The caption on the photograph read, “Typewriters were still cutting-edge of technology.”

Overall, this exhibit is one that every UTM student should view. It not only provides a cultural experience for students but it provides historical education about the university.

The student body should definitely be amazed at the changes that the university has undergone in its 101 years of establishment. UTM has changed a great deal since its foundation was put down on in 1901. This exhibit will hopefully give students an appreciation of the technology and other advancements that the university provides today, along with changes that may occur in its future.

On a scale of one to five, with one being the lowest and five being the highest. This exhibit is given ****1/2. Just maybe, 50 years from now, future students will be exhibitors about students today.