DORMITORY, NORTH VIEW Pattie Cobb Hall turned 100 years old in 2019. BBuilit n 1919, women's residence Pattie Cobb Hall stood for 100 years. It was first inhabited by students of Galloway Women·s College. Accordmg to Hannah Wood, archives and special collections librarian, Pattie Cobb was originally known as "the new dorm." Galloway College sold its property to Harding College in 1934, after which the dormitory's basement served as a cafeteria. "I love the fact that we have a tie to the college that was here before us," Wood said. "To me, it shows kind of a continuity of education, a connection to the community from even before when Harding was here." Wood said Pattie Cobb had several idiosyncrasies that set it apart from other dorms on campus. In the 1940s, the "dorm moms" of Pattie Cobb and women's residence Cathcart Hall distributed banners for good housekeeping, and the names of the students with the cleanest rooms were published in The Bison newspaper. When the American Heritage cafeteria opened in 1965, the two cafeterias developed a feud. Pattie Cobb's cafeteria made it a tradition to say a prayer every 30 minutes over the food served. In 1989, University leadership decided to renovate Pattie Cobb to make it a larger women's residence hall without a cafeteria in the basement, and it was renovated again in 2006. Its newest features included balconies on the upper floors and a chandelier in the foyer with two staircases leading down into (Left) Pattie Cobb Hall stands as the oldest dorm on campus Nov. 192, 019. Pattie Cobb functioned as a dorm and cafeteria during the early years of Harding. I photo by Madison Meyer (Above and right) Pattie Cobb Hall opensfor its first year in 1920. Pattie Cobb functioned as a residence hall and a cafeteria for 69 years before being renovated to strictly a residence hall. I photos courtesy of Harding University Archives the lobby area. Heather Davis, dorm mom for both Pattie Cobb and Cathcart in 2019, said her father attended Harding in the 1970s when Pattie Cobb was still a functioning cafeteria. Once Davis lived in Pattie Cobb as a residence life coordinator, she said she wished she had lived there as a student. "Our population tends to be a lot of studious girls," Davis said. "They like it quiet and peaceful. Peaceful is a good word to describe it now." Sophomore Annika Asplund said she was glad to live in a historic building like Pattie Cobb and thought it captured the charm of living in the South. "Pattie Cobb really has a lot of history, and I'm glad that I get to be a part of history indirectly in there," Asplund said. story by Elizabeth Shores DORMITORY, EAST VIEW student life 27
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