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| | Handbook of Texas Online: LAMAR UNIVERSITY |
 | | Bonds for construction of a new campus were approved, and in June 1942 classes were held on the present campus on the Port Arthur highway, three blocks east of South Park High School. |
 | | The Lamar University System, consisting of Lamar University–Beaumont, Lamar University at Orange, Lamar University at Port Arthur, and the John Gray Institute, a privately funded, state-operated, nonprofit research center located on the southern edge of the Beaumont campus, was established by the legislature in August 1983. |
 | | The transfer became official in 1995, with the campuses in Orange and Port Arthur and the university's Institute of Technology, founded in Beaumont in 1990, becoming separate components of the system. |
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