Mesa State in the 1960s
| | State
doubles appropriation to $300/student
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| Student Orientation |
Young Republicans are happy with campus poll results. |
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| Mary Rait, faculty member since 1925, retires. | | $1,600,000
bond issue to build science building and college center. |
| The Twist, by Chubby Checkers, starts a new dance
craze. Civil Rights Act reaffirms the right to vote for all Americans. John
F. Kennedy wins the Presidential election. | |
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Enrollment
exceeds 1,000 for the first time
| | Bob
Dylan produces his first album. President Kennedy forms the Peace Corps. Soviet
Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man to travel in space. The Berlin
Wall is built. Best Picture: West Side Story |
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Two-year
registered nurse program established
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| The College Center is dedicated. |
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$58,000
IBM 1620 computer installed
 | Dr.
William Medesy named president. |
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Mavericks
leave Empire conference; rejoin Intermountain Conference; win baseball and basketball
titles. George
Rausch sets basketball scoring record, 56 points against Rangely College (former
record - 50).
New bell tower
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 | Miss
Mesa 1964, Linda Heiny. |
| Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight Championship. Civil
Rights Act outlaws discrimination in public accommodations and by employers. North
Vietnam attacks U.S. tankers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Best Picture: My Fair
Lady | | |
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| Brotherhood Week inaugurated
and continues until 1973
Campus appearances: Paul Harvey, radio commentator; Lilia Skala, actress |
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| Fall enrollment reaches 1,774 -- graduates exceed 200 | |
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| William Robinson, drama director,
wins Larry Tajiri Drama Award
Mesa theatre nationally recognized
Campus appearances: Sir Bernard Lovell, astronomer; Felix Greene, journalist;
Vance Packard, social critic |
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| Engineer's Club |
| Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution in China. Star
Trek begins airing on NBC. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is
formed. | | |
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| IBM 140 data processor
installed, replacing the 1620 system Auguste
Rodin´s "The Thinker" on display in the library; viewed by over
4,000 Enrollment exceeds 2,000 Campus
appearances: Leon Uris, author; Harry Golden, author Federal
grant of $304,000 to help build new fine arts center First
campus security guard hired |
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| New library (later Heiny Hall) occupied |
| The first Rolling Stone magazine is published. Thurgood
Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court justice. | |
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| New physical education
facility dedicated -- Justice Byron "Whizzer" White, speaker Campus
appearances: John Henry Faulk, humorist; Alex Haley, author; Stanley Kaufman,
drama critic | | |
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| Mesa stripped of vo-tech
funding for refusal to join state junior college system Campus
appearances: Willy Ley, rocket scientist; Eulalie Noble, actress Vietnam
Moratorium Day staged on campus |
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| New fine arts facility dedicated; named
for Sentinel Publisher,
Walter Walker |
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| "Old Main," the original campus building, named Houston Hall
for former college dean, Dr. Clifford G. Houston, and his father | |
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