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College
History
The roots
of Southwestern College can be traced to 1945 when a group of
forward-thinking individuals began a collection of religious and
metaphysical books to establish the Quimby Memorial Library. In
1963, the library was dedicated in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The
collection included copies of the manuscripts of Phineas Parkhurst
Quimby, an American Transcendentalist.
By
1976, Southwestern College, then called Quimby College, was ready
for dedication. Dr. Neva Del Hunter, the College's founder, put
forth its original mission. The education at the College was to
be innovative and holistic. Dr. Hunter's charge was as follows:
the College would teach that the power within a person is greater
than in the world; that humankind has a sincerity to learn and
a willingness to serve and that education must encompass the knowledge
of the universe. She expressed high expectations for the
students of the College. She firmly believed that education enabled
individuals to manifest the destiny of their souls in the world.
Today, Southwestern
College continues to teach in a holistic and experiential way.
Students are challenged to acquire knowledge and skills in the
context of a rigorous applied curriculum. They learn to cultivate
the qualities of transformational leadership so they can assist
others to realize their full potential. They graduate from the
College with the skills necessary to foster transformation in
themselves and in others.
Quimby
Memorial Library
The Quimby
Memorial Library supports teaching and research in counseling,
grief and loss, art therapy, applied psychology and experiential
education. The library contains approximately 18,500 books, journals
and audiovisual materials.
The library
includes the Quimby Collection. This rare book collection focuses
on comparative religion and metaphysics.
Patrons
have access to interlibrary loans through the New Mexico State
Library and may request journal articles and publications from
libraries throughout the United States. Through the Internet,
students can view several on-line catalogs in the country. Students
can access behavioral and social sciences indexes by means of
the EBSCO database. These indexes provide abstracts and some full-text
articles from scholarly journals.
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