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On what would turn out to be the coldest New Year’s morning in a century, 19-year-old Roy Earl Hamilton of Sobel, Tennessee sat in a dark, borrowed, upstairs room at 2524 Gaut Street, Cleveland, Tennessee. He and 11 other hopeful students quietly watched as the stalwart Reverend Nora Chambers lifted and rang a small bell at precisely […]
January 1, 1918 – 9:30 AM: Twelve students met in an upstairs classroom to form the inaugural class of what is now Lee University. Their teacher was Nora Chambers. These are her words. #LeeU100
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