Pueblo Junior College 1943

The founders of the Junior College first met on June 29, 1933. They were Eric T. Kelly, C.N. Caldwell, A.J. Dooner, Margaret D. Peterson, J. Arthur Phelps, Hattie A. Mead, and Frank S. Hoag, Jr. At first known as Southern Colorado Junior College, the title Pueblo Junior College was adopted. Legislation was passed in 1961 for it to become the four-year Southern Colorado State College with a junior class enrolled in 1963. By 1964, enrollment was more than 4,000 and a new campus was started in the Belmont area of the NE quadrant of town. The new campus was dedicated primarily to academic pursuits while on Orman Avenue, more of a combination of vocational courses with some academics were offered. (SCSC became the University of Southern Colorado in 1975.) The campus across town, now Pueblo Community College, has received endowments enabling antiquated buildings to be replaced and advanced technology programs to be inaugurated.

(Information from“PC/PJC/PCC/SCSC/USC: The Legacy of Pueblo's Colleges” by Robert Collyer: Pueblo Lore, June 1998)