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|
1950 |
Academic life:
WOI-TV, the first educationally owned and
operated television station in the nation, goes on the air February
21.
Student life:
The ISC Dairy Products Squad won first place
in all products, butter, and cheese divisions at an international
students contest in Atlantic City.
Favorite food items in the Memorial Union:
baked ham, Swiss steak, meat loaf and cherry pie. A typical meal:
roast pork and gravy, sweet potatoes, buttered spinach, apple-celery
nut salad and boysenberry shortcake.
VEISHEA theme: "Mid-Century VEISHEA"
|
1951 |
Academic life:
Iochief hybrid sweet corn, developed at ISC,
was awarded a gold medal by the American Seed Trade Association.
Student life:
VEISHEA theme:
"The Education Fair"
University:
WOI-TV transmitted its first local live
studio production (March 5) and its first live agricultural program
(March 9).
|
1952 |
Academic life:
WOI-TV received the Sylvania award
for the two series, "The Whole Town's Talking," and "In Our Care."
Student life:
The first Greek Week was held.
VEISHEA theme
"VEISHEA—Spirit of
Leadership"
|
1953 |
Academic life:
Dr. Joseph P. Anderson donated his Alaskan
plant collection to the Herbarium.
The first television course taught for
credit was Psychology 204.
Athletics:
Meredith Willson
writes a new Iowa State pep song, "For I – For S," based on many
requests from alumni. The song is performed at Homecoming.
Campus:
"Little Ankeny,"" a one story wooden
shack, where over 2,000,000 pounds of uranium was produced for the
World War II effort, was razed.
WOI-TV was granted increased power by the FCC, and moved to channel
5.
WOI-TV was awarded a Sylvania Television Award for its local
programs, "The Whole Town's Talking," and "In our Care."
Iowa TV Schooltime ran at 10 a,m, everyday, and had an estimated
viewership of 75,000.
Student life:
Registration totaled 8,000.
The livestock judging team won first place in swine judging at the
International Livestock Exposition in Chicago.
The Women's Resident Association (WRA) was established.
VEISHEA Theme: "VEISHEA Highlights Progress."
University:
James H.
Hilton, Class of 1923, succeeded Charles E. Friley as president on
July 1.
James H. Jensen, head of the Department of Plant Pathology at North
Carolina State College was appointed Iowa State's first provost on
November 1.
|
1954 |
Academic life:
The first
Faculty Council was elected.
Athletics:
Cy the Cardinal became Iowa State's
mascot.
Student life:
The first
couple was married in the Memorial Union chapel.
Fees were raised to $66 for the quarter.
VEISHEA theme: "Showcase of Achievement."
University:
The Alumni
Association transferred its alumni information to 60,000 IBM cards.
The Forestry Department celebrated its 50th anniversary.
|
1955 |
Academic life:
The State
Board of Education became the State Board of Regents.
Athletics:
Chuck Duncan scored 438
points for a 1-year record and career total of 901 points in
basketball.
The Cyclone football coaches selected the student body as its
"athlete of the week."
Campus:
Westgate Dormitory built for
222,887, was constructed of pre-cast concrete panels. It was torn
down in 2004.
Student life:
VEISHEA
theme: Cavalcade of Education
|
1956 |
Academic life:
Browsing library
established in the Memorial Union.
Athletics:
The Cyclones won the Big 7 basketball
title, with Gary Thompson named the tournament's "most spectacular
player." Thompson was also named to the All Big Seven basketball
team by the AP and UP and named athlete of the year for Iowa State.
Baseball team won a conference title, district title, and their
first collegiate World Series appearance.
Campus:
Contractors
began work on the addition to the Memorial Union, adding the
bookstore and the Sun Room.
13 New bells for the carillon (already with 36 bells), imported from
the John Taylor and Company Foundry in England.
Student life:
Hawthorn
Apartments, Pammel Court, were opened to married students.
VEISHEA theme: 'VEISHEA Reflects Education"
University:
Ames was chosen as the site of the U.S.
Animal Disease Laboratory.
|
1957 |
Student life:
VEISHEA theme:
"Insight of your Future"
|
1958 |
Academic life:
W. Robert Parks was appointed to the
newly established position of Dean of Instruction. He came to Iowa
State from the University of Wisconsin, but had also served as
Professor in the Dept. of History and Government at Iowa State from
1948-1956.
The Division of Home Economics
discontinued the tradition of infant care in the home management
house (1924-1958).
The faculty voted to continue the quarter system (1919- ).
Athletics:
Cyclone wrestlers won the Big Eight
Tournament, and placed second nationally.
Campus:
The book store moved into the Memorial
Union.
Home Economics Hall was named for Catherine J. MacKay Hall.
Street signs are installed on campus.
University:
The position of
Vice President for Business and Finance was established.
President Emeritus Charles E. Friley died on July 11. He was
president of Iowa State from 1936 through 1953.
President Emeritus Raymond M. Hughes died on September 22. He was
president from 1927 through 1936.
The centennial of the university was celebrated with the following
events:
Founders Day (March 22)
Academic Symposia (March 22-23)
VEISHEA (May 15-17)
Commencement (June 13-15)
The theme was "with honor to the past….with vision for the future."
In Alaska, Mt. Anderson and Gilkey Glacier were named for two Iowa
State alumni. Jacob Peter Anderson (Class of 1913), a member of the
botany faculty from 1941 through 1953, did extensive botanical
research in Alaskan flora. Arthur Karr Gilkey (Class of 1949) led
the first party to explore the head of the glacier. He was killed by
an ice avalance on K-2 in 1953.
The Iowa State
College Foundation is formed, with the express goal of raising funds
for what will become the Iowa State Center (C.Y. Stephens
Auditorium, the Scheman Center, Fisher Theater, and Hilton
Coliseum).
|
1959 |
Academic life:
A History of Civil Engineering at Iowa
State, was published by Professor A.H. Fuller.
Campus:
Nearly 30,000
tons of silt were dredged from Lake LaVerne.
Student life:
The Hub, a vending area for students,
staff, and faculty, was built in a portion of the area formerly
occupied by the College Book Store in the Post Office Building.
University:
On July 4, Iowa
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts became Iowa State
University of Science and Technology.
At the March 12-13 meeting of the State Board of Regents, approval
was given for the change of name of the divisions of Iowa State. As
of July 1, the official names were the College of Agriculture,
College of Engineering, College of Home Economics, College of
Sciences and Humanities, and College of Veterinary Medicine.
The Civil
Engineering Summer Camp program was discontinued. Started by
Professor Anson Marston in 1899.
CYCLONE, a high-speed digital computer was completed and put into
operation.
Nikita Khrushchev, premier of the U.S.S.R., visits the ISU campus
and the Coon Rapids farm of ISU alumnus Roswell Garst.
Pammel Drive was paved from the ISU Cemetery to Hyland Avenue.
The Iowa State Golf Course was renamed in honor of George F. Veenker
|
1960 |
Academic life:
The Department of Nuclear Engineering
was established.
The Board of Regents authorized major work for undergraduates in the
fields of English and Speech, Modern (Foreign) Languages, and
Physical Education for Women.
The College of Home Economics (with funding from the Ford
Foundation) establishes a cooperative agreement with Baroda
University in India to assist in the development of their graduate
and research programs in home economics.
Student life:
The Green Gander
discontinued publication (1915-1960)
ISU initiates
the University Honors Program, attracting 40 students in its first
year.
University:
History of Cooperative Agriculture and
Home Economics Extension in Iowa was published by Prof. R.K. Bliss.
The last team of Iowa State draft horses
was sold.
|
1961 |
Academic life:
W. Robert Parks is named Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Virgil Lagomarcino is named director of
teacher education at Iowa State.
Athletics:
Clyde Williams
Field is expanded to seat 25,000.
Campus:
The first addition to the Library is completed (with air
conditioning).
Planning begins for the Iowa State Center, and C.Y. Stephens is
designated the national chairman of the fundraising campaign.
Student life:
A proposal to allow telephones in dormitory rooms is met with
resistance and concern that phones are an "unnecessary frill." The
Board of Regents delays temporarily, but following student
presentations in the spring, telephones are installed by fall.
University:
The National
Animal Disease Laboratory opens in May.
|
1962 |
Academic life:
Carl Hamilton (Class of 1936), editor of
the Iowa Falls Citizen and Hardin County Times (since 1948) is
appointed head of the Department of Technical Journalism.
The basic ROTC program is placed on an elective basis. Since 1919,
it has consisted of a required two-year and a voluntary two-year
advanced program.
Student life:
Women's hours are extended. Week night hours are now until midnight
(except freshmen, 10:30 p.m.). Weekend hours for all women are
extended until 1:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and midnight on
Sunday.
A comprehensive plan for protecting Iowa State students in case of
nuclear attack is developed, with George Burnet as chairman of the
Committee on Planning.
Enrollment at Iowa State reaches 10,000 students.
|
1963 |
Academic life:
CIRAS, the Center for Industrial
Research and Service, is founded, with a mission, "to enhance the
performance of Iowa industry."
Campus:
A new edition of "Campus Sketches" by
Velma Wallace Rayness is published.
The Gables is torn down to make way for Buchanan Hall.
Student life:
The IBM computer
mixer is held.
|
1964 |
Student life:
The ISU Players
celebrated 50 years, having been created by Frederica Shattuck in
1914.
VEISHEA
theme: "Making of Our Nation"
University:
C.Y. Stephens is killed in car crash. He
has raised over $4.2 million for the ISU Center.
|
1965 |
Campus:
Storms Hall, the first of the Towers
Complex, is opened to 600 male students.
The Farm House is listed as a Registered National Historic Landmark.
University:
One of the
largest nuclear reactors in the nation dedicated to basic research,
the Ames Laboratory "went critical" Feb. 17, 1965, completing a 4
year, $4.5 million construction project. |
1966 |
Academic
life:
The first World Affairs Institute is
held on campus, dealing with "The Problem of China."
The Cyclone Computer is dismantled after 10 years. The Cyclone was
one of 9 non-commercial machines in its class, built during the
initial post-war phase of computer development. It was built
entirely by Iowa State personnel and students.
Student life:
A no-hours
policy for senior women and women over 21 goes into effect.
Enrollment stands at 15,000.
University:
Annual giving to
Iowa State totaled $475,106.
|
1967 |
Academic
life:
The Iowa State University Library is
admitted as the 28th member of the Center of Research Libraries, now
known as the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
Membership is limited to institutions maintaining large research
collections.
Student life:
Co-ed Mary Ann
Ebbing is named to the ISU Meat Judging Team.
University:
The class of 1967 donates the nucleus of
an art collection to the University, with the presentation of
Maurice Lasansky's "Lady in Blue."
WOI begins broadcasting its television programs in color.
|
1968 |
Academic
life:
The College of
Education is established.
Athletics:
Black Athletes submit a protest letter,
known as the Eight Grievances. Among their requests: Black coaches
and personnel on the sports teams, the removal of coaches and
trainers who would not recruit black athletes, and the term of
Afro-American or black should be applied, but the term Negro should
not.
Don Smith graduates and his record in basketball:
Most points in one game: 41 against Southern Cal
Most points in one season: 619
Most points in a career: 1,672
Most rebounds in one game: 24
Most rebounds in a season: 365
Most rebounds in a career: 1,025
Campus:
The design for
Hilton Coliseum is approved by the Board of Regents.
Student life:
Grades are
available to the parents of students, if they write the Office of
Student Records.
University:
A Story County
grand jury report is published and notes the "frequent reports of
student radicals and other activities using campus media to pulpiteer, sensationalize and otherwise promote illicit sex, drug
use, draft evasion, defamation of our country and our leaders,
demands the attention of this report." President Parks responds by
noting this is an unfair and grossly distorted picture of Iowa
State.
The Order of the Knoll is organized for alumni and friends.
|
1969 |
Athletics:
Wrestlers win the NCAA tournament.
Student life:
The first Black
Cultural Affairs Week is held.
Co-eds move into Friley Hall.
University:
Ira Schroeder,
university carillonneur retires (1931-1969).
As part of a week-long concert series, the New York Philharmonic
performs at the opening of C.Y. Stephens Auditorium.
|
1970 |
Academic life:
The YWCA offers
the first women's studies course to ISU students.
David Nicholas, a student in electrical engineering, develops an
encoding process for the fax machine.
Wes Buchele in agricultural engineering is awarded a patent for a
machine forming and handling large round bales of hay.
Campus:
ISU
names a building for George Washington Carver, and the Black
Cultural Center on Welch Avenue is dedicated.
Cy-Ride is born, as the first buses transport students from Towers
and University Village to central campus.
Student life:
The Fifth
Dimension performs two concerts.
New guest hours are approved for members of the opposite sex in the
residence halls: Noon to 10 p.m., Sunday-Thursdays and from noon to
1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
University:
ISU students hold a mass rally and
strike to protest U.S. involvement in Cambodia, and also hold a
memorial service for the students slain at Kent State. At VEISHEA,
the parade also incorporates a "March of Concern" joined by faculty,
students, and staff. President Parks speaks on campus, stating, "I
am glad this rally is being held for peace. I know you are
concerned, deeply concerned about what has happened at Kent State
and recent developments in Southeast Asia. I am concerned, too.
Bringing peace is the most important problem facing us. As
president, I want to say you are going about it in the right way . .
.
If the university is not concerned with deep human problems such as
bringing peace, then what should it be concerned with?" (ISU Daily)
|
1971 |
Athletics:
Hilton Coliseum
opens on Dec 2 with an Iowa State basketball win over Arizona,
71-54.
|
1972 |
Campus:
Automobiles are
blocked from central campus through electronic cross-bars.
University:
The University
Committee on Women is established.
|
1973 |
Academic
life:
A prairie planting is established in the
area between Science I and Science II to serve as a demonstration
area and outdoor learning laboratory.
|
1974 |
Academic
life:
The ISU
Library's one millionth volume, Trattato della pittvra di Lionardo
da Vinci, is purchased for the collection.
The Departments
of Physical Education for Men and Women are combined, and Barbara
Forker is named the first department head.
Student life:
The Maintenance
Shop opens in the Memorial Union. Through the years, the M-Shop
hosts a broad range of bands performing all kinds of music, from
jazz to rock to reggae.
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1950-1974 |
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