Guests are invited to attend the event, which takes place from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. in Derryberry Hall Auditorium. The ceremony includes a historical re-enactment of events leading up to the signing of the Tennessee Tech charter and proclamations declaring March 27 “Tennessee Tech University Charter Day” in the state, county and city.
“Hitting our century mark is a huge accomplishment, and we’re commemorating the occasion with more than a year’s worth of special events and activities,” said Laura Clemons, coordinator of the university’s Centennial Celebration. “The fact that we’ve reached this moment in our history is due in large part to the people of the Upper Cumberland, who lobbied successfully for the first public college in our region.”
TTU began as Dixie College in the early 1900s. The school’s primary goal was to increase the
