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Title: 50 YEARS50 MILESTONES


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50 YEARS50 MILESTONES
  • Commemorating the 50th Anniversary
  • of the University of New Orleans
  • September 5, 1958 September 5, 2008

2
1956 June 26
  • Louisiana State University in New Orleans (LSUNO)
    is established by act of the Louisiana Legislature

3
1957 December 14
  • LSU Board of Supervisors appoints Homer L. Hitt
    as dean of proposed New Orleans branch

4
1958 April 11Hitt announces first faculty
appointments (clockwise from top left) Billy J.
Good (physics) Mary L. Good (chemistry) George
Branam (English), chairman of division of
humanities Jack Carlton (chemistry), chairman of
division of sciences Herbert J. Howe (geology)
and John M. Goudeau, librarian
5
1958 April 11
  • LSU officially leases 178-acre tract from Orleans
    Levee Board as site of LSUNO at a cost of 1 per
    year for 99 years

6
1958 September 5
  • Opening ceremonies

7
1958 September 8
  • With a faculty of 63, LSUNO opens for
    registration 1,498 students register full-time
    tuition is 15 per semester (it took 64 years
    for LSU's student body to reach 1,500)

8
1958 September 8
  • Judge Herbert Christenberry orders LSU to admit
    Negro students to LSUNO the first two African
    American students register on September 9

9
1958 September 12
  • Classes begin a Chemistry lab is shown here

10
1958 September 18
  • In response to two days of disorderly conduct
    that included jeering at Negro students, Dean
    Hitt issues statement threatening suspension or
    expulsion of students attempting to disrupt
    "academic programs with boisterousness and
    violence"

11
1959 Spring
  • Student publications are born with the
    introduction of the first student newspapers the
    premier issue entitled The Driftwood appears on
    May 15, followed by Areté, the National Honor
    Society magazine, and, in 1962, the first
    yearbook, Trident

12
1961 September 14
  • Liberal Arts Building (first permanent structure
    on campus) opens its doors to students

13
1962 Spring
  • Alumni Association organizes shown here on May
    7, 1962 are officers (left to right, standing)
    George A. Mollere, George E. Sutton, William D.
    McDougal, and (seated) Joe E. Walker, president

14
1962 June 4
  • Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution making
    the Vice President in Charge of LSUNO responsible
    directly to LSU President and redefining the
    academic mission

15
1962 June 8
  • First commencement is held 115 students,
    including 73 admitted in 1958, receive diplomas

16
1963
  • Graduate School is established, with first
    programs leading to master's degrees in chemistry
    and physics the first masters degrees were
    awarded on May 28, 1965 to (from left with
    Chancellor Hitt) Fannie K. Yokor, education
    administration and supervision Joan Guidry
    Eymard, special education Elizabeth D. Gilmore,
    education administration and supervision Elsie
    Aydelotte Brice, secondary education Daniel
    Joseph Orgeron, chemistry

17
1963
  • School of Education is established and is soon
    elevated to College of Education

18
1963
  • Evening Division is established

19
1964
  • LSUNO leases the former Camp Leroy Johnson site,
    now the East Campus, from the Orleans Parish
    Levee Board

20
1964
  • Earl K. Long Library is completed

21
1965 September 9
  • Hurricane Betsy strikes the library, its roof
    shown below, is most heavily damaged building on
    campus Liberal Arts Building (right) also
    sustains much damage

22
1966
  • Urban Studies Institute established

23
1966 April 2
  • LSU Board of Supervisors approves establishment
    of a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry, with others, such
    as Political Science (1972), soon to follow the
    first doctorate would be conferred in 1967

24
1966 November
  • Voters approve a constitutional amendment to
    permit construction of dormitories Bienville
    Hall and adjacent dining hall, The Commons, open
    in 1969

25
1967 September
  • University Center opens

26
1969 December 1
  • Birth of (LS)UNO sports Privateers men's
    basketball team plays its first game despite
    losing 68-63 to Louisiana College, the team goes
    on to an 18-5 season

27
1971
  • Last remaining Navy building is vacated when the
    Workshop Theater moves into a new Drama Arts and
    Music Building (now Performing Arts Center)

28
1972
  • WWNO (89.9 FM) begins broadcasting

29
1974 February 2
  • LSUNOs name is changed to University of New
    Orleans

30
1976
  • UNO's International Summer School acquires
    permanent home in Innsbruck, Austria partnership
    agreement with University of Innsbruck is signed
    on November 18, 1983

31
1980 June 30
  • Founding Chancellor Homer L. Hitt retires Leon
    J. Richelle succeeds him as UNO's second
    chancellor

32
Early 1980s
  • Permanent off-campus centers are established in
    Jefferson Parish and downtown New Orleans, the
    latter emphasizing courses for the business
    community

33
1982
  • UNO's first Distinguished Professors are named
    (pictured left to right with Chancellor Leon
    Richelle, second from right, at a luncheon in
    their honor on September 23) Dr. Stephen E.
    Ambrose, History Dr. Rasheed M. A. Azzam,
    Electrical Engineering Dr. Werner J. Feld,
    Political Science Dr. Peter A. Politzer,
    Chemistry

34
1983 November 26
  • Kiefer/UNO Lakefront Arena on East Campus hosts
    its first games--women's basketball and men's
    basketball (Keifer's name added 1987)

35
1984 April
  • Cooper Mackin is named UNOs third chancellor
    after having served in that position in an
    interim capacity since May 1983

36
1985 March 4
  • UNO opens Women's Center and, soon after,
    introduces a minor in Women's Studies, both
    firsts at a public university in Louisiana

37
1988 June 11
  • Gregory O'Brien becomes UNO's fourth chancellor,
    succeeding Cooper Mackin

38
1991
  • Benjamin Franklin High School relocates on UNO
    campus

39
1991
  • First distance learning courses leading to a
    bachelor's degree are begun by UNO and NUDC

40
1997 April 4
  • Groundbreaking ceremonies launch the Research and
    Technology Park , the development of which had
    been approved in 1991 by the Levee Board and the
    LSU Board of Supervisors

41
2002
  • Center for Energy Resource Management (CERM)
    opens in a research facility on the site formerly
    occupied by Pontchartrain Beach

42
2003 September 5
  • Homer L. Hitt Alumni and Visitors' Center is
    dedicated

43
2003
  • Timothy P. Ryan becomes UNO's fifth chancellor,
    succeeding Gregory O'Brien

44
2003
  • Roger H. Ogden Museum of Southern Art opens

45
2004 August
  • Pierre A. Capdau School opens as UNOs first
    charter school

46
2005 August 29
  • Hurricane Katrina strikes

47
2005 October 10
  • UNO reopens at the Jefferson Center (first
    university in the New Orleans area to reopen)
    330 classes are offered there and at other
    satellite locations, and 860 more online 7,000
    enroll

48
2005 Week of December 5
  • Return to campus after Hurricane Katrina
  • December 5
  • First post-Katrina classes on main campus are
    held as first minisemester (four-hour-per-day
    classes for two weeks) begins 81 students are
    enrolled
  • December 7
  • Former Presidents Bush and Clinton visit the UNO
    campus to announce 90,000,000 in grants from
    their Hurricane Katrina relief fund UNO is among
    beneficiaries

49
2006 January 20
  • 788 students receive diplomas in first
    post-Katrina UNO commencement, held at the Hilton
    New Orleans Riverside Hotel
  • 2007 January 30
  • First post-Katrina regular semester begins on
    main campus some classes are held in a tent and
    in other makeshift facilities

50
2008 September 5
  • UNO 50th Anniversary Convocation
  • "Loving a university is like loving a woman. You
    can't explain why. It just happens." -- Homer L.
    Hitt, quoted by Stephen E. Ambrose (Driftwood
    5/4/95)
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