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Phoenix College Timeline

  • Phoenix Junior College Opens

    Phoenix Junior College Opens

    Phoenix Junor College opens classes in three small cottages on the south side of Taylor Street near Sixth Street, a part of Phoenix Union High School. Nine subjects were taught. Students adopted customs and traditions including choosing a mascot "The Bear."
  • Commencement & Football Team

    Commencement & Football Team

    5 students graduated & they formed their first football team
  • Newspaper

    Newspaper

    The student newspaper was established
  • Cottonwood Court

    Cottonwood Court

    Located on Fillmore and 7th St from 1925 to end of the decade (1929)
  • NCA Accreditation & Bond issue

    NCA Accreditation & Bond issue

    Formal North Central Association accreditation. Voters approved a bond issue of $625,000 for the construction of new buildings for PUHS and PJC and improvements and additions to existing buildings and equipment
  • Evening classes & Radio club

    Evening classes & Radio club

    First evening classes in 1934
    PJC's radio club went on the air Friday May 18, 1934
  • Campus expanded

    Campus expanded

    Breaking ground on the new site on 15th Ave & Thomas Rd.
    Cnstruction wound down in the fall of 1939, students attended classes at the new PJC campus
  • Cadet Nurses

    Cadet Nurses

    More than 30 nurses were studying to be cadet nurses
  • Logo changed

    Logo changed

    Logo is changed to include bear, cactus, mountain and PJC auditorium
  • Miss America

    Miss America

    PJC student Jacque Mercer was named Miss America