NOWCAST WVTM 13 On Demand
Watch on Demand
Menu

Search location by ZIP code

NEWS ARCHIVE

Advertisement

Arrington collection opens at Miles College

Longtime Birmingham mayor donates 400 books to his alma mater

Arrington collection opens at Miles College
Longtime Birmingham mayor donates 400 books to his alma mater

In honor of National Library Week, former Birmingham mayor Richard Arrington donated part of his own library to his alma mater.

Arrington was at Miles College Friday for a ribbon cutting ceremony to open a new section of the library that features 400 books donated by Arrington.

Advertisement

He says the collection will not only benefit students now, but students in years to come.

"When I look at students I teach, I think, 'My God, I wish I had been that smart when I was a freshman and sophomore, like some of these students are.' But they take a lot for granted and they don't have to work as hard. That information comes to them so fast," he said. 

Arrington graduated from Miles College in 1955 before serving as mayor of Birmingham from 1979 to 1999.

"It's wonderful. It's a wonderful feeling. I've watched this school grow. I came here as a student in 1951. And i've been able to watch it grow all of those years and it seems to get better every year."

AlertMe
http://www.wvtm13.com/article/arrington-collection-opens-at-miles-college/3830236
www.wvtm13.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-30
222897
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:HXJBOJAILQK2DFEK7SHXIO6NGREZU35P
<urn:uuid:6c8e9358-36ad-4800-a314-cdb319137a65>
2018-07-20T18:43:38Z
151.101.1.86
text/html
sha1:LQWKV5BOJ6TC44ZBTA7QFRS4IZ2W3TAT
<urn:uuid:6b580cc5-cd71-4290-a295-526793773997>
http://www.wvtm13.com/article/arrington-collection-opens-at-miles-college/3830236
response
<urn:uuid:d68865d5-db5a-4fc5-b360-290c03370b1f>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-69-223-92.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf