Dr. Andrew C. Rockover, a death camp survivor, joins Lambuth College from Poland – he and his wife and daughter moved to the US via South America – changes his name to Dr. Cecil. At the 1950 Memphis Conference session, Lambuth Campus Board of Trustees requests approval to secure funds to build a new women’s dormitory and to modernize the administration building and Epworth Hall – the Lambuth Alumni Association supports the plan.
Hero David from India enrolls at Lambuth College – he is the first student from Asia.
The new Physical Education Building is in use. The construction of the new women’s dormitory, the E. W. Sprague Memorial Hall, begins thanks to a donation from a Lambuth Campus Trustee’s family. Lambuth College applies to the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for accreditation; a new president’s home is purchased.
Renovations to the Administration Building – the front steps are removed, the stairwells are built over, and the parlors are turned into classroom.
The Supreme Courts of the United States issues the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision declaring public schools racial segregation unconstitutional.
Lambuth College becomes accredited by and a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Lambuth College becomes a member of the Association of American Colleges; the Class of 1955 finds and restores the cornerstone of the MCFI original building – today, it can be found by the flagpole in the University of Memphis Lambuth campus courtyard. Starting this year, the R. E. Womack award, instituted by the Lambuth Alumni Association, is presented at Homecoming to an alumnus or alumna who has shown ‘“continuous self-development in the type of Christian citizenship to which Lambuth College has sought through the years to inspire her students”’ (A College Grows…, 201).
Vietnam War – possibility for members of the Methodist Church to exercise “conscientious objection” in opposition to the war if they do not wish to be enlisted.
The Chapel-Fine Arts Building is completed – a convocation and dedication ceremony takes place in the Chapel - honorary degrees are conferred to, among others, Miss Callie Gates, at the time the oldest MCFI alumna, and to C. N. Jolly, then oldest living graduate of Lambuth College, from the first graduating class of 1927. A Church Committee is appointed on campus; Reverend Brady B. Whitehead is the first Chaplain of Lambuth College.
Rachel Gobbel, daughter of Luther L. Gobbel, marries Owen Lennon Norment in the Memorial Chapel—Fine Arts Building – first wedding celebrated in the newly-built Chapel.
Members of the Lambuth Alumni Association begin donating to a scholarship fund and set up an Investment Advisory Committee.
The curators of Callie Gates’s estate make a $100 gift to contribute to the building of the new library on the Lambuth College campus, honoring the late Callie Gates’s wishes – it is the first gift received towards the new construction .
The new physical education building is dedicated to Dr. Richard E. Womack during Homecoming; Nancy Collum becomes the first recipient of the Lambuth Alumni Association scholarship.