Dedication Ceremony of H.D. "Bo" Cotton Student Carter at North Campus (1990)

This brief video captures some of the dedication ceremony of the H. D. "Bo" Cotton Student Center at North Campus on November 26, 1990. Beginning midway through the event, it opens with a speech by Chairman of the Board of Trustees Alton Yates, who places the opening of the center within the larger historical context of the creation of North Campus. He discusses the growth on Jacksonville's Northside due to the recent construction of the Dames Point Bridge and expansion of the International Airport, and comments that he knows North Campus President Dr. Ezekiel Bryant dreams "what some have termed the impossible dream," the development of the Northside. He introduces the new Student Center as the home for the College's Institute of the South for Hospitality and Culinary Arts and notes its place in the larger hospitality industry in northeast Florida.
After Yates concludes, Dr. Bryant takes the podium to explain to the audience the logistics of the ribbon cutting they will be attending. The video then cuts to outside of the Student Center, where President Charles Spence leads the audience in a litany giving thanks for the new facility and those who helped along its creation before Bo Cotton's family cut the ribbon. The video concludes with about a minute of footage from the reception held inside the new building, with Dale Blackwell and the FCCJ Jazz Ensemble playing in the background.
This event took place at the College's North Campus on November 26, 1990.
Speakers: Chairman Alton Yates, Dr. Ezekiel Bryant, Dr. Charles Spence
Copyright 1990 Florida State College at Jacksonville