History
Centralia College opened in 1925 under the name of Centralia Junior College. Developing slowly at first, the college constructed its first physical campus in 1950 with Kemp Hall. Also, in 1948 the college received its accreditation from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Growing from an entrance class of 15 students, as of 2009 the college has an enrollment of 4,803 students in 64 academic programs. The college is affiliated with the private Centralia College Foundation, founded in 1982 by community members, to supplement its public resources.
The college is also home to Michael Spafford's Twelve Labors of Hercules, a series of murals commissioned in the early 1980s for the House of Representatives' chambers. From 1982 to 1987 they were covered with curtains due to their sexually suggestive nature and later were placed in storage. Following a decade of negotiations, the college acquired the murals in 2003 for display in the Corbet Theatre. Murals created by Alden Mason and originally displayed at the Capitol were moved to the college library in 1990.
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