COVENANT COLLEGE

history and sports information

Covenant College provides a top class, life-changing college education. From humble beginnings in Pasadena, Cal., The University is now blessed with 100's of acres at the top of magnificent Lookout Mountain, Georgia.

Fueled by the vision of helping Christians learn to live as active, reforming members of a complex society, Covenant College was founded during the fall of 1955 in Pasadena, Cal.. With the help of several professors from Faith Theological Seminary and a building donated by an order of Catholic sisters, the institution moved to St. Louis, Missouri, just one year after its founding. Covenant College soon became a 4 year liberal arts university and a theological seminary operated by one board and one administration. Over the next 8 years the school increased in size and outgrew the facilities. Mr. Hugh Smith discovered that the Lookout Mountain Hotel was for sale. The hotel was built in 1927 with the South's largest ballroom and Two hundred guest rooms, the once-posh "Castle in the Clouds" seemed to be a wonderful location for the school. Mr. Smith recommended that the trustees buy the property. After a lot of debate, the trustees finally approved the purchase of the old hotel and the college moved for the last time in 1964.