Quadrangle

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Nestled on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, is one of the best-equipped Christian high schools in the country. Although BJA shares various campus facilities with the University, the Academy has its own quadrangle of buildings and several ancillary buildings, including its own gymnasium.

Academy Main

Administrative Offices — Principal, Assistant Principal, Guidance Counselor
Classrooms — Spanish, Math, History, English

Located directly across the street from the university's Alumni Stadium, "The Main" houses the administrative offices and most of the freshman classrooms. A credenza with a box for every faculty member is provided in this central location to allow students a convenient place to leave messages and paperwork when a teacher is unavailable for a personal meeting. It is a BJA tradition—even during the busy traffic flow between classes—to step around rather than on the tile logo located on the floor in the center of the building.

Hutto Building

Labs — Foods, Interior Design, Keyboarding, Computer Science
Classrooms — English, Bible, Art, Journalism, Yearbook, BJ LINC
Junior High School

This building is named after the first woman to serve as principal of BJA and is the Quadrangle's only two-story classroom building. The ground floor houses the classrooms and offices of Bob Jones Junior High School.

Dr. Eunice Hutto
Principal, 1932-1936
Dr. Hutto joined the Bob Jones College (BJC) faculty in 1928, was head of the math department in 1929, and became Academy principal in 1932. Known for her brilliance, efficiency, precision, strength, and stubbornness, she helped mold the academic programs of both BJC and BJA.

Collins Building

Academy Auditorium
Heritage Displays
Science Classrooms

The Academy Auditorium features a well-equipped stage and large, adjustable seating area that can accommodate 585 theater seats. Academy chapel, school assemblies, concerts, and other meetings use the Auditorium. It is equipped with video and computer projection equipment and computer-controlled stage lighting and sound systems which are regulated from a projection booth in the rear of the Auditorium. A student stage crew under the supervision of an Academy staff member mans the Auditorium.

Dr. J. Floyd Collins
Principal, 1927-1929
Dr. Collins began his tenure when BJA began as a military academy and preparatory school for Bob Jones College. During Dr. Collins' 50 years in education, he taught Latin, Greek, and literature and served as principal in 12 southern schools. He was 74 years old when he contacted Dr. Bob Jones Sr., asking if there was a position he could fill at the new college. As principal of BJA, he taught Latin and English and handled the discipline of the young men in the military school.

Brown Building

Offices — Discipline Committee, Student Body Organization, Junior High library, Audio-Visual (AV) Room (teachers workroom)
Classrooms — Handbells, German, Latin, Social Studies, Driver Education, Speech, Math

This building once served as the campus hospital and infirmary. The university founder spent his last years in the room that now serves as the Junior High Library, and the current AV Room was the operating room in those days. The ramped entrance behind the building was the ambulance entry to the facility at that time.

Mrs. Lillian L. Brown
Principal, 1936-1964
Mrs. Brown's tenure as Academy principal was the longest in the school's history. She is fondly remembered by co-laborers for encouraging them to "be firm, but sweetly firm" in their dealings with students and for insisting that after BJA students had been in any place, they should leave it in better shape than when they had arrived.

Quadrangle

Amphitheater
Flagpoles
Seating (in sun and shade)

The Quadrangle provides a variety of seating areas where students can congregate on pleasant days and covered walkways for a more pleasant walk between buildings in inclement weather. The amphitheater is a popular location for lunch and also serves well for school pep rallies and class meetings. The Markham Center plaza was built in 2006.

As part of the Academy's emphasis on Christian patriotism, the entire student body and faculty assemble periodically before classes in the center of the Academy Quadrangle for a brief flag-raising ceremony. The singing of patriotic numbers, the Pledge of Allegiance, reading of Scripture, and prayer make up the program, which has become a distinctive part of Academy life.