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Article Excerpt
In the early 1980s, William Carey College was dealt a blow. A hurricane came rolling out of the Gulf and severely impacted the school's Gulfport campus, located on Beach Boulevard.
Ironically, the administration building, one of the many picturesque, historical structures that line U.S. 90, was relatively unharmed, as were the other older structures on campus. But the campus' newest facilities, two residence halls that were still incomplete when the storm hit, were devastated. One was rubble, and the other was leaning noticeably.
It was a kick in the gut for the private college based in Hattiesburg. At that time, Carey on the Coast was the area's only four-year institution of higher learning, but enrollment simply never met expectations. The administration decided that one thing that might remedy that would be on-campus dormitories.
In essence,...
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