The purpose of this virtual wall of honor is to pay tribute to each of the “dreamers” who made Kentucky Southern College possible:  the founders, the faculty members and the administrators.  For each individual who was involved in the creation or the running of the school these tributes tell their story before KSC, their contribution to KSC, and what they did after KSC closed down.

Navigation: These 3 groups of tributes are provided as WORD documents using Microsoft OneDrive. Click on the word Founders, Faculty or Administrators below to see the list screens. Occasionally, the OneDrive defaults may erroneously show tiles instead of a list. To override these defaults, use the List option at the upper right of the screen to change from tiles to the list display. Then click on one of the names in the list, and WORD will come up.  To return to the list after reading a tribute, click the x for WORD at the top of the screen in the browser to take WORD down, and the list will show again. To return to this KSC Wall Of Honor Page, click the back arrow at the top of the list screen.

Who Were the Dreamers?

The dreamers were the founders, and the original faculty members and administrators of Kentucky Southern College. 

The founders were the prominent Louisville Baptists on the original board of trustees of KSC.  Half of the board members were Baptist ministers, and the other half were Louisville businessmen, doctors, lawyers, accountants and schoolteachers.  The average age of the trustees in 1959 when KSC planning was underway was 48.

The original faculty and administrators were the 73 hired before 1967.  This is a statistical profile, using data from their tributes on the Wall of Honor.

50 % were born between 1932 and 1943, 32 % between 1921 and 1931, 18%  prior to 1920

76 % were Male, 24 % were Female

98 % were Caucasian

67 % were Southern (born south of the Mason-Dixon Line)

72 % were Baptists

27% were Ordained Ministers

11% had a father who was an Ordained Minister

12 % were Missionaries

27 % had a Seminary Divinity Degree

87 % had a University Masters Degree

59 % had a University Ph.D. Degree or eventually received a Ph.D.

16 % became Political Activists

91 % were married

Of those married, 87 % had children

Of those married, average years married was 51

Of those married, 35 % got a divorce

As of 2022, 67 % are deceased and 33 % are still living

Of those deceased, average age at death was 79 years