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Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (August 15, 1841 – March 24, 1916) was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. She served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first (and only) woman president of Livingston Normal College (now the University of West Alabama ).
More than 675 pounds of dynamite will be used to implode the old Julia Tutwiler Hall, with detonation set for 7 a.m. July 4 in Tuscaloosa.
The early move-in period began Wednesday in Tuscaloosa with some UA students making a bit of history as the first residents of the new Tutwiler Hall.
Garland Hall, which housed the geology museum and lecture rooms, completed what became known as Woods Quad. Tuomey and Barnard Halls were also built before 1900. The medical school and pharmacy school were in Mobile at the time. [9] The university was officially opened to women in 1892 after much lobbying by Julia Tutwiler to the Board of Trustees.
In 1949 Gallalee Hall was built to house a new observatory. The last building constructed facing the Quad was the Rose Administration Building, completed in 1969. It was built on the site of the first incarnation of Julia Tutwiler Hall, a dormitory built in 1914 and demolished to make way for the new building. [2] [3]
She is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. [74] As of 2020 her security classification is medium and her residence is a dormitory instead of a cell block. [75] After pleading guilty in September 2012 and waiving her right to appeal, Bishop filed an appeal on February 11, 2013.
The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Tuomey Hall, now known as the Blount Undergraduate Initiative Tuomey Academic House, was completed in 1889. Built as a laboratory for the Department of Chemistry, it was named in honor of Michael Tuomey, state geologist and professor. [8] [9] Toumey Hall was previously the home of the Army ROTC at the University of Alabama.
Ed Tutwiler: 1897: Transferred to the University of Virginia. Son of Birmingham philanthropist and New Market cadet Edward Magruder Tutwiler and relative of reformer Julia Tutwiler who is the namesake of Tutwiler Hall. One account reads "Ed Tutwiler is one of the greatest stars that football in the south ever produced.