News and Historical Stories

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 By Deanna Rea The Bakersfield College Memorial Stadium was not an easy feat for those credited with its creation, but certainly a triumph! The stadium was the first structure completed on Bakersfield College’s Panorama...

Monday, July 1, 2024 By Deanna Rea Grace Van Dyke Bird was the first recognized President of Bakersfield College and the first woman to head a public community college in California. She was known as both an innovator and a woman of great vision....

Monday, October 30, 2023 Bethany Rice is the Archives Faculty Director at Bakersfield College, where she is responsible for leadership, operations, planning, personnel, and the preservation of artifacts of the Bakersfield College Archives which is...

Friday, September 8, 2023 “BC’s Campus Boulders” was originally published in the Renegade RIP on December 11, 1998, and was written by Mary Helen Barro, a Renegade RIP student Even though I’m a rock lover, when folks began commenting about the new...

Thursday, August 17, 2023 Each semester, Bakersfield College faculty and staff gather together for Opening Day Ceremonies. This fall, for the first time ever, the Bakersfield College Archives had a table to talk about history and share our legacy...

Saturday, July 1, 2023 Two of our favorite staff have decided to hang up their hats and enjoy retirement- we'll miss Helen Harp and Rosalee Pogue more than they know and greatly appreciate everything they've done for the archives over the years. One...