Alumni Testimonials
Interview with Douglass Maxwell
Douglass Maxwell was a student at Liberty University from. He lived on the Mountain in Dorm 13 for his Freshman Year. Below are pictures of his dorm and the audio of his interview.
Dorm 13
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"I lived initially in the basement of the Donald Duck Bottling Company Building. The basement of that building housed some of the girls, and they went in there and put up walls to separate the basement. My room was near the front, and they had some high windows that were on the street level of Thomas Road. It was just a small room with a cement floor with a cot, it had a metal folding chair, and there was a beat-up old dresser."
- Paula Johnson
"The little houses along the road of Thomas Road were dormitories. They bought those little houses and they had students living in them. The orginal student body was 154 students, some of the students lived in town, and the rest lived in those little houses, both guys and girls. They were four room houses, and some of them actually had the shower in the basement. So those little houses were the original dorms for LBC."
- Dr. Mark Hine
"I remember arriving at Thomas Road Baptist Church and asking where my dormitory was. I was led across the street to a little house. When I asked where my room was, a carpenter who was fixing a hole in the wall told me to pick any room I'd like. He told me the beds were out on the porch. There I found a stack of bunk beds and mattresses. I picked out a room and set up a bed, and then began the most exciting, rewarding days of my life."
- Steve Vandegriff
"For the first two weeks in the Fall of 1973 I lived on Treasure Island because they had just purchased the Stewart Arms Hotel and it wasn't ready to be lived in yet. So basically Treasure Island was a youth camp in the summer and they used it for dorms during the school year. In 1985 there was a big flood and it washed Treasure Island away."
- Dr. Mark Hine