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Cal Poly Humboldt Chronology
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University history collection including information about the campus and materials published by the University.
From: Tanner, A View From the Hill
| Date | Month | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1912 | Dec | Senator William Kehoe and Assemblyman Hans Nelson introduce legislation to establish a normal school in Humboldt County |
| 1913 | Jun | (13th) Governor Hiram Johnson signs law establishing a "Humboldt State Normal School" to train elementary school teachers |
| Sep | Governor appoints board of trustees: five local members, governor and state superintendent of instruction ex officio members | |
| Nov | (13th) HSNS trustees select Arcata as location for the normal school; (19th) state attorney general declares actions of trustees null and void | |
| 1914 | Jan | Board of trustees names Nelson Van Matre president of HSNS |
| Feb | (14th) HSNS trustees, meeting in Sacramento, reaffirm decision to locate normal in Arcata | |
| Apr | (6th) Humboldt State Normal School begins in Arcata Grammar School, 11th and L streets • 78 students and 5 faculty by May 1 | |
| Dec | First play performed, Her Own Way | |
| Fall | William Preston and Union Water Co. stockholders donate 51 acres east of Arcata for permanent site of HSNS | |
| 1915 | May | First graduation, in Minor Theatre: 15 women; first grad is Susie Baker Fountain |
| Jun | Construction of temporary building on the "Preston Tract" | |
| Fall | Horace "Pop" Jenkins joins faculty | |
| 1916 | Jan | Student loan fund established by community |
| Jan | HSNS moves into temporary building (present site of Founders Hall) • 156 students | |
| 1917 | Apr | (6th) US enters World War I |
| Jun | Legislature appropriates funds to build new administration building (now Founders Hall) | |
| 1920 | Swimming pool built in the gulch behind temporary building | |
| 1921 | Jun | Administration building completed |
| Jun | (1st) HSNS renamed Humboldt State Teachers College and Junior College • (28th) HSNS trustees dissolved • department of education (Sacramento) designated authority over college | |
| 1923 | Fall | Homer Balabanis joins faculty |
| 1924 | Sum | Ralph Swetman becomes new president |
| Fall | Associated Student Body organized (Howard Trueblood first president) • alumni association formed (Hugh Stewart first president) • first homecoming • first student newspaper, The Foghorn • comedy performed by students and faculty, The College Jinx | |
| 1925 | Fall | Laura Herron joins faculty and organizes Women's Athletic Association • Play Day and Work Day initiated |
| 1927 | Humboldt State authorized to offer BA | |
| Spr | First yearbook, Cabrillo | |
| Fall | First intercollegiate football contest: loss to Southern Oregon Normal, 33-0 (coach Fred Telonicher) | |
| 1928 | Spr | Humboldt State Teachers College Improvement Foundation established |
| Sum | "Cinder" Elta Cartwright, Humboldt track star, participates in first US women's Olympic team in Amsterdam | |
| 1929 | Oct | Stock market crash on Wall Street |
| Fall | New student newspaper puplished, HSTC Rooter | |
| 1930 | Sum | Ralph Swetman leaves Humboldt • Arthur Gist becomes new president |
| Fall | HSTC Rooter renamed The Lumberjack • Chi Sigma Epsilon honor society formed, J. Wendell Howe sponsor | |
| 1931 | Spr | New gymnasium completed and dedicated • first high school senior day on campus |
| 1932 | Fall | Enrollment reaches 388 • teacher placement bureau established • Little Symphony Orchestra, A Capella Choir, pep ban formed • tuition goes from $1.50 to $6.50 per semester • HSTC offers AB degree in biology, English, soial sciences, and kindergarten-primary education |
| 1933 | Sum | California Department of Education threatens to close HSTC |
| Fall | Alumni association publishes Humboldt Alumnus, edited by Alta McElwain and J Wendell Howe | |
| Fall | College Elementary School completed (Gist Hall) | |
| 1934 | Apr | Humboldt celebrates 20th anniversary |
| Spr | Civil Works Administration provides fund to improve buildings and grounds • first intercollegiate tennis team (coach Monica Wright) | |
| 1935 | Fall | HSTC renamed Humboldt State College • 275 students, 31 faculty • football coach Charles Erb has 6-1-1 record for Thunderbolts |
| 1936 | Spr | First intercollegiate track meet, losing to Chico State 103-26 |
| Fall | Football star Vernon Thornton is "champion doughnut eater" after eating 24 of Pop Jenkins' doughnuts in one sitting • sports mascot changed to Lumberjacks | |
| 1937 | Fall | Student-run "cooperative bookstore and fountain" opens • HSC offers BS in education |
| 1938 | Fall | Forestry club organized |
| 1939 | Sep | World War II begins • Associated Women Students organized |
| Spr | Legislature appropriates fund to build new dormitory (now Nelson Hall) and playground for College Elementary School | |
| Fall | Library acquires copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf | |
| 1940 | Fall | Men's sports join Far Western Conference • William and Hortense Lanphere begin two-year wildlife management program • ski club builds lodge on Horse Mountain • first annual pancake feed for faculty and students at Camp Bauer • aeronautics class trains pilots • faculty council organized by the state colleges |
| 1941 | Fall | Queen of the Campus sponsored by Mutsuhito Club (name changed to Favonians after Dec 7) • enrollment high of 481 students • Gist bans hazing of freshmen • radio training offered for women |
| Oct | HSC Radio Workshop aired on KIEM | |
| 1942 | Spr | Air observation post built atop college commons • Skywatch near Redwood Park, operated by faculty wives • The War Effort variety show |
| Fall | Football abolished • commando physical fitness offered by phys ed department • President Gist initiates Humboldt News Letter to send to men and women in the armed services | |
| 1943 | Fall | With the Armed Forces column featured in Lumberjack • Humboldt Hilarities proceeds go for war bonds and Red Cross |
| 1944 | Spr | 23 men, 4 women graduate • main building (now Founders Hall) camouflaged |
| Fall | Enrollment drops to 176 | |
| 1945 | Fall | HSC organized into five divisions • Homer Balabanis dean of arts • Harry Griffith dean of education • Charles Fulkerson reorganizes HSC Symphony, includes community participation |
| 1946 | Fall | HSC accredited by NW Association of Secondary and Higher Schools • new faculty include Leland Barlow, Kate Buchanan, Reese Bullen, Joseph Forbes, William Jackson, Hyman Palais, Roscoe Peithman • Humboldt Village and Redwood Hall house married students and veterans • students and community build bleachers for Redwood Bowl • new clubs include Knights, Wildlife, Student Federalists |
| 1947 | Spr | Far Western Conference reactivated |
| Fall | Speech/radio major offered • radio station KHSC established • enrollment reaches 750 • GI Wives and Rally Committee established • first graduate classes offered (History of Economic Though; US Colonial History) • Sweetheart and Harvest Balls held • NW California Dramatics Festival for high school students • BA in wildlife management established • lights installed in Redwood Bowl | |
| 1948 | Mar | California Department of Education establishes HSC enrollment capacity at 1,418 students |
| Spr | World War II camouflaging of main building finally painted over | |
| Fall | HSC advisory council established • administrators, faculty, and students | |
| 1949 | Oct | President Gist suffers heart attack • Homer Balabanis is interim president |
| Fall | HSC offers general secondary teaching credential, 18 BA degrees, 5 BS degrees | |
| 1950 | May | Industrial arts building, Jenkins Hall, completed • state funding surpasses $500,000 • All-College Picnic held at Camp Bauer |
| Jun | President Gist retires • Korean War begins | |
| Jul | Cornelius Siemens named president | |
| Fall | Siemens appoints HSC advisory board | |
| Oct | Conservation Unlimited published • MA degree in teaching of drama, education, and social science | |
| Nov | Greater Humboldt Committee formed | |
| 1951 | Apr | New Coop built |
| Sep | Jessie T. Woodcock retires after 31 years | |
| Fall | Two-year programs established in dairying and lumbering and logging • marching band formed | |
| Dec | Conservation Week held | |
| 1952 | Spr | HSC Foundation established • Coop has coffee for 7¢, hamburger 25¢ |
| Sep | Library dedicated (now Van Matre Hall) • Peace Carillon dedicated • new faculty: Dan Brant, John Pauley, Charles Bloom, Kathryn Corbett • science building and corporation yard finished | |
| Fall | Football team, coached by Phil Sarboe, wins FWC for first time | |
| 1953 | Spr | Chas. Barnum endows local history contest |
| Mar | Bunny Hop held in Eureka | |
| Sep | Skywatch ended • Frosh Camp orients new students • 26 new faculty include Milt Dobkin and Leon Wagner • "Pop" Jenkins dies | |
| Oct | Wildlife management building finished | |
| Dec | Christmas flood | |
| 1954 | Feb | Faculty members Charles Parke, Ralph Roske, and Dan Brant are candidates for Muddy Gras King |
| Spr | Maurice Hicklin and Homer Arnold retire after more than 30 years • Adlai Stevenson attends All-College Picnic • west stands in Redwood Bowl covered with roof | |
| 1955 | Fall | Football star Earl Meneweather installed as first member of HSC Sports Hall of Fame |
| 1956 | Fall | Division of Natural Resources established • 89 courses of study offered (41 in 1946) |
| 1957 | Spr | Myrtle McKittrick retires as registrar and placement officer • Hilltopper first issued |
| Fall | New buildings include art-home economics, music, men's gym, home management cottage, outdoor facilities for wildlife management • Delta Sigma Phi organized • enrollment at 1,527 • Green and Gold Room opened | |
| 1958 | Spr | IBM punch cards used for registration and recording of grades • Tau Kappa Epsilon organized • College Cove is popular sunbathing area |
| Mar | Marriage Education Week observed | |
| May | Ground broken for two new dormitories: Redwood and Sunset halls • faculty and staff hold first salmon bake | |
| Sep | Enrollment 1,921 • 36 new faculty (total 156) | |
| Oct | Hula Hoop contest held in Redwood Hall • chartered flight takes team and fans to football game vs. Hawaii | |
| 1959 | Feb | NDEA loans available • indoor swimming pool completed |
| May | Track and field wins its first FWC championship (coach Robert Doornick) • Delta Zeta organized • Lumberjack Days replace All-College Picnic as spring event • BS in nursing and AB in industrial arts • 45th commencement is largest ever, 225 grads | |
| Fall | Student Counseling Center operates in dean of students' offices • parking fees ($13 per semester) instituted for first time • 41 new faculty hired • first issue of Annual Ring, Forestry Club publication • new administration building (now Siemens Hall) • new language arts building and field house • Sunset and Redwood halls occupied • Lucky Logger adopted as mascot • Elta "Cinder Elta" Cartwright is first woman in HSC Sports Hall of Fame | |
| Nov | Main building (old administration building) renamed Founders Hall | |
| 1960 | Jan | MA in biology approved |
| Mar | HSC chapter of Association of Cal State College Professors formed | |
| Apr | California master plan for higher education | |
| Spr | All-weather track installed in Redwood Bowl • alumni association begins Who's Who award to distinguished alums (first, George Hogan, '33) | |
| May | Sequoia Theatre (now Van Duzer) dedicated • new health center and cafeteria | |
| Sep | Per master plan, authority for 14 colleges of CSC system transferred to separate board of trustees; first chancellor, Dr. Buell Gallagher • new divisions established for biological and physical sciences • new Coop opens, now called student activities center • enrollment over 2,000 | |
| Oct | Lumberjack Enterprises established for vending and food services, bookstore, etc. • football games played in Albee Stadium, as Redwood Bowl too small for the crowds | |
| Dec | HSC championship team plays Lenoir-Rhyne in NAIA's Holiday Bowl | |
| 1961 | Feb | Enrollment fees now $43 per semester • academic senate meets for first time • Associated Women Students sponsor Women's Day • ASB presidents of CSC system form CSC Student Presidents' Association • Fred Telonicher elected first general faculty president |
| May | Ugly Professor contest held • Imogene Platt retires after 35 years • recruiting for Peace Corps begins • tennis courts built south of field house • Mashed Potato Incident | |
| Fall | HSC has 59 degree-granting programs: 39 BA/BS, 20 MA/MS | |
| Dec | Sale of Tropic of Cancer banned in county | |
| 1962 | Jan | Metro Bus Service of Arcata operates from post office to campus |
| Mar | CSC trustees predict HSC will have 12,000 students by 1990 | |
| Fall | Forestry building and new library completed • old library (now Van Matre Hall) remodeled for engineering • enrollment record 2,398 • 30 new faculty • civil defense seeks adequate fallout shelters on campus • legislature initiates Oustanding Teacher award • CSC academic senate initiate Outstanding Professor award • HSC terminates junior college program | |
| Oct | Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| 1963 | Mar | Faculty elects reappointment and tenure committtee and promotion committee |
| May | Oustanding Alumnus Monroe Spaght delivers commemorative speech for 50th anniversary • Chancellor Dumke encourages statewide academic senate • end of baccalaureate services | |
| Fall | Enrollment reaches 2,628 • 25 new faculty hired • education/psychology building completed (now Harry Griffith Hall) | |
| Nov | President John F. Kennedy assassinated | |
| 1964 | Feb | Humboldt County Junior College District establishes College of the Redwoods |
| Mar | New ASB constitution • Barry Goldwater visits to campaign for presidency | |
| Apr | Homer Balabanis, first vice president for academic affairs, retires after 40 years, replaced by interim VP Ivan Milhous • Golden Anniversary of HSC observed | |
| Fall | Enrollment reaches 2,893; 34 new faculty | |
| Oct | Ronald Reagan visits | |
| Dec-Jan | Humboldt/Del Norte flood isolates campus; gym facilities used for community relief efforts | |
| 1965 | Jan | College of the Redwoods begins operation in Eureka High School |
| Feb | Pacific Oceanic Olio first published | |
| Mar | Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 provides money for work-study programs | |
| Sep | James Turner is vice president for academic affairs • enrollment 3,100 • 55 new faculty | |
| Fall | HSC adopts master plan for future campus development • Arcata requests 5,000 FTE limit on students • Fred Telonicher and Harry Griffith become first Oustanding Professor awardees | |
| Oct | Chapter of SNCC, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, founded | |
| Dec | Speakers Stump established on commons • Vietnam committee established | |
| 1966 | Jan | Harry Griffith dies after 27 years at HSC • student athletic committee established |
| Feb | First Clam Beach Run | |
| Mar | Students agree to build new student union | |
| Spr | Marine laboratory opens in Trinidad • William Lanphere retires after 30 years • last issue, for now, of Sempervirens | |
| May | First graduation held in Redwood Bowl | |
| Sum | Upward Bound program begins | |
| Fall | 250 faculty, 3,600+ students • auto-mechanics building completed • ACSCP campaigning for collective bargaining • John Gimbel named Oustanding Professor for CSC system • Center for Community Development established, Bill Murison director • Frank "Bud" Van Deren new head football coach | |
| 1967 | Feb | Experimental College organized with 100 students • Vietnam seminar held • first Intercollegiate Kite Flying Contest held at Clam Beach |
| May | Retirees include Helen Everett, Ivan Milhous, Fred Telonicher | |
| Fall | Change to quarter system • 3,891 students • "teach-in" on the draft held • College of the Redwoods moves south of Eureka | |
| 1968 | Jan | First registration by computer |
| Apr | Carroll Hurd hired as new vice president of academic affairs | |
| Spr | First Film Festival • retirement of Kate Buchanan and John Van Duzer | |
| Fall | Donald Strahan becomes first dean for administrative affairs • Jolly Giant Commons and eight dormitories completed • Marching Lumberjacks return after 10-year absence • 72 new faculty; 4,604 students • football teams wins FWC; defeats Fresno in Camellia Bowl (coach Bud Van Deren) | |
| Dec | Lady Bird Johnson dedicates Redwood National Park • Bill Johnson, chief of plant operations, retires after 27 years | |
| 1969 | Jan | HSC chapter of Sierra Club organized • art and music buildings completed |
| Feb | Freeway issue heats up • ASB establishes student judiciary | |
| Apr | Peer group concept adopted for dorm living • trustees approve new student union • President Siemens approves seating students on 37 campus committees • miniskirt contest held | |
| May | Women's track wins Women's Recreation Association meet • Humboldt Honeys started | |
| Fall | 5,100 students • academic reorganization: five schools plus division of Health and PE; Milt Dobkin vice president for academic affairs; Whitney Buck dean for undergraduate studies; Richard Ridenhour dean for academic planning; Donald Strahan vice president for administrative affairs; Thomas Stipek first ombudsman • ITEPP begins • co-ed dorms • Vietnam Moratorium Day on Arcata Plaza | |
| 1970 | Jan | Lumberjack's Mike Stockstill declares Joe College dead • environmental symposium |
| Spr | Third World Coalition promotes interests of minority students • HOP replaces Frosh Week for new student orientation | |
| May | Protest of Cambodian incursion • Kent State shooting and bombings across nation • vote on Sequoia Quad for voluntary, peaceful, one-week strike • Governor Reagan orders all CSC campuses closed | |
| Jul | College Elementary School closed for remodeling | |
| Sep | Cluster College pilot program initiated after Smith River Retreat • 10,000 apply for admission, only 1,600 accepted • enrollment at 5,479, with 50 new faculty • RV Catalyst is new oceanography vessel • Ryan Bill creates multiple- and single-subjects credentials | |
| Fall | SLC votes to do away with homecoming queen • YES has 12 outreach programs | |
| 1971 | Jan | Biology complex completed • United Native Americans organized |
| Feb | State master plan predicts 10,000 FTE by 1980 | |
| Spr | Earl Meneweather appointed ombudsman: first African American administrator | |
| Fall | Student services reorganized: Karshner retires and Thomas MacFarlane is dean • students 18 and over may now register to vote • meal prices: breakfast $1.10, lunch $1.40, dinner $1.65, full day $2.40 | |
| Oct | Kerr Tower opened for meditation | |
| 1972 | Feb | Campus organizations include MEChA, UNA, and HSU Caucus for Women • expansion of Highway 101 to four lanes creates controversy |
| Apr | HSC adopts affirmative action plan • old CES formally renamed Arthur Gist Hall • controversy over Woodlands Proposal for student housing on 86 acres NE of campus | |
| Jun | HSC renamed California State University, Humboldt | |
| Fall | Natural resources building completed • change from civil engineering to environmental engineering • first female Marching Lumberjack | |
| Oct | Humboldt Students for the Reform of Marijuana Laws organizes | |
| Nov | University Center completed | |
| 1973 | Jan | End of Selective Service • ethnic studies begin • peace march to protest continued involvement in Vietnam |
| Spr | First issue of Humboldt Journal of Social Relations • university leases former Trinity Hospital for administrative offices • Watergate controversy | |
| Sep | President Siemens retires; Milt Dobkin appointed interim president; John Pauley interim vice president for academic affairs • Cypress Hall completed • Delta Sigma Phi dissolves | |
| Oct | President's house sold at auction for $60 | |
| Fall | 358 faculty: 63 women and 295 men • Forbes Complex completed • CSUH Women's Association formed; Women's Center displaces Faculty Club in former Balabanis House | |
| 1974 | Jan | Forbes Complex dedicated; includes Women's Gym • new upper division emphasis phase for general education • faculty organizations (except UPC) merge to form Congress on Faculty Associations to promote collective bargaining |
| Feb | Applications down • Frank Devery retires as business manager after 23 years • gasoline shortage affects student/faculty travel | |
| Apr | Federal law (Title IX) mandates more funding for women's athletics | |
| May | Black Culture Week and Asian-American Awareness Week • Gay People's Union formed • campus chimes heard hourly • HEW funds Native American Career Education in Natural Resources | |
| Jul | Alistair McCrone becomes president | |
| Fall | School renamed Humboldt State University • Sequoia Theatre renamed John Van Duzer Theatre (dedicated in Feb) • enrollment tops 7,500 (6,700 FTE) • women's sports join Northern California Intercollegiate Conference • "Buzz" Webb named dean for student services • cross-country team wins Far Western Conference (Jim Hunt coaches) | |
| 1975 | Jan | SLC subsidizes Arcata-Mad River Transit and Humboldt Transit Authority in return for lower student bus fares (10¢) |
| Feb | First annual President's Ball at Eureka Inn | |
| Spr | Alumni publication renamed Humboldt Stater • classless Fridays eliminated to economize | |
| Apr | Women's Awareness Week • Ced Kinzer retires • Intercollegiate Knights, campus service organization, ends after 25 years | |
| May | Cinco de Mayo celebrated • Salmon Bake at Camp Bauer for faculty and staff | |
| Jun | Six separate commencements held, one for each school and division of HPE | |
| Fall | Jewish Student Union formed | |
| 1976 | Feb | Lumberjack endorsing candidates (anonymously) for local elections, a violation of Title V of the Administrative Code |
| Mar | Native Americans protest celebration of bicentennial of the American Revolution | |
| Apr | Battle over building the G-O road through Native American burial grounds • Earth Week celebrated • enrollment crunch and threats of faculty layoffs lead to orderly layoff procedures | |
| Jun | Ronald Reagan Redwood Memorial Grove dedicated near 101 off ramp to 14th street | |
| Fall | Enlarged health center opens • EOP offers financial and tutoring services • HSU applies to sell beer and wine on campus • enrollment drops from 1975-76 high of 7,706 to 7,611 | |
| Sep | Swine flu epidemic hits campus | |
| Oct | TKE dissolves • new chapter of National Organization of Women • branch of Humboldt National Bank set up in UC | |
| Nov | Remodeling of Gist Hall and expansion of marine laboratory in Trinidad • SLC excludes at-large representatives | |
| 1977 | Jan | HSU Social-Emotional Climate Committee formed in dormitories |
| Feb | Disabled Students program initiated • Humboldt County experiences serious drought and water shortage • controversy over expansion of Redwood National Park | |
| Mar | Wrestlers, under coach Frank Cheek, win second in NCAA division III tournament | |
| Apr | Serious enrollment decline, especially in social sciences and humanities | |
| May | Professor Bobby Lake is "messenger to mankind" for flying saucer people | |
| Jun | Charles Fulkerson, Roscoe Peithman retire | |
| Fall | Wooden windows replaced with metal in Founders Hall • AIR Center opens to improve academic advising • expansion of library completed • Cooperative Education begun through Career Development Center | |
| Oct | Student member added to CSUC trustees | |
| Nov | Mandatory credit/no credit system in all activity classes | |
| 1978 | Feb | Campus Center for Appropriate Technology housed in Buck House • HSU and Arcata agree to cease HSU's physical growth to the north, west and south |
| Mar | Campus open house for community • administration building named Siemens Hall • basketball team in division III playoffs | |
| Apr | Plus/minus grading system replaces trial decimal system • shortage of funds for intercollegiate athletic programs | |
| May | Softball coach Lynn Warner named Coach of the Year for Golden State Conference • ed/psych building renamed Harry Griffith Hall • baseball field is site for new science building | |
| Sep | Oceanography research vessel Catalyst sinks on way to Crescent City | |
| Oct | Legislature authorizes collective bargaining in CSUC • enrollment declines to 6,735 | |
| 1979 | Jan | Arsonist sets fire to forestry building; classes relocated by Monday morning |
| Feb | Frank Cheek's wrestlers win FWC championship • men's basketball, under coach Jim Cosentino, ties for first in FWC, first time since 1956 | |
| Spr | First issue of Forum, a campus journal | |
| May | Marine lab renamed Telonicher Marine Lab | |
| Sum | Humboldt Village II (37 trailers) closed | |
| Oct | State mandates Graduate Writing Proficiency Examination • 7,582 enrolled • Arcata Drive-in Movie closes • The Great Humboldt Spirit Celebration rejuvenates campus and community participation in homecoming; alumni king and queen chosen from class of '17 | |
| 1980 | Jan | Oceanography gets research vessel, Malaguena |
| Feb | Mud slide causes evacuation of Cypress Hall; repairs not completed until Oct | |
| Mar | Kathryn Corbett retires • intercollegiate baseball dropped | |
| Apr | Joni Ferris All-Indian Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament held in HSU gyms | |
| May | College Cove popular for "natural" sunbathing | |
| Oct | Forestry building reopened after 19-month closure • CFA and UPC compete to be faculty and staff representative in collective bargaining • Students for Peace organized • Phoenix Club rises out of the ashes | |
| Nov | Engineering building renamed Van Matre Hall • child development building named for Ralph Swetman • UC lounge named Karshner Lounge • Nelson Hall meeting room named Goodwin Forum • CSUC initiates plan for post-tenure review of faculty • men's cross-country, under Jim Hunt, wins regional NCAA division II title • Institute for Research and Creative Projects has Theodore Ruprecht as first director | |
| 1981 | Feb | Former dean, Kate Buchanan dies; all-purpose room in University Center named for her • Frank Cheek's wrestlers win fifth straight FWC title |
| Mar | Flap over HSU business competition with downtown merchants | |
| Apr | Conservation Unlimited wins Tuscon Wildlife Conclave • hacky-sack fad on campus • Wilmer Bohlmann dies • Disability Awareness Day held | |
| Fall | Football team defeats UC Davis for first time since 1969 | |
| Nov | Decline in enrollment blamed on increased fees • cheerleaders reappear, first time since 1976 | |
| 1982 | Jan | Business has most majors (716); forestry down to 246 |
| Mar | Bar code system implemented for checking out library books • a national magazine lists HSU as one of 31 "lesser known but of high quality" institutions in the US | |
| Apr | Lanphere-Christensen Dunes expanded from 183 to 213 acres | |
| Spr | Five schools renamed colleges, still have HPE and ISSP divisions • Larry Kerker, head of HPE, dies in 25th year of service • Delta Sigma Phi reactivated | |
| May | Glenn Dumke, CSUC chancellor for 20 years, retires; replaced by Ann Reynolds • engineering and biological sciences building and geodesic greenhouse completed • retirees include William Jackson and Dave Smith • alumni association makes another effort at a yearbook (Sempervirens was published through 1966, The Lamp in 1977 and 1978) | |
| Jun | highest number of graduates in HSU history: 1,174 bachelor's, 144 master's | |
| Sum | Campus hosts National Women's Studies conference | |
| Fall | Men's Far Western Conference and women's Golden State Conference merge into Northern California Athletic Conference • third floor of Sunset Hall goes co-ed • Cypress Hall has unstable hillside • 207 fewer FTEs | |
| Nov | Joe Trainor dies in 21st year at Humboldt • university seal features Founders Hall | |
| Dec | Draft registers face cuts in financial aid • Ken Chaffey retires after 32 years | |
| 1983 | Jan | Budget cuts by state produce fee hikes |
| Feb | MS in environmental engineering approved • wrestlers win sixth conference title in seven years • chancellor Reynolds visits HSU for first time | |
| Mar | First Women's History Week observed • first Peace Week • Tom Wood is NCAC coach of the year | |
| Apr | 16th annual film festival includes workshop by actress Nina Foch • forestry students win conclave at Northern Arizona Univ | |
| May | Entry level mathematics exam required of all CSU students • Lynn Warner is NCAC coach of the year for her co-champ softball team • Jefferson Starship concert in Redwood Bowl • Golden Handshake retirement offered to faculty; retirees include Milt Dobkin, Don Strahan, Bob Kittleson | |
| Fall | Enrollment planning and management task force promotes recruiting and retention • beginning of Business Administration night class program • computerized check-out system in library | |
| Sep | Nude bathing banned at College Cove • Cypress Hall reopened • food service's Rathskeller renamed The Depot; Athenaeum closed • Bette Lowery heads HPE • Partnership Campaign is launched | |
| Oct | CFA and CSU negotiate first contract | |
| Nov | JeDon Emenhiser and Ed Del Biaggio are new vice presidents | |
| Dec | Debate over US invasion of Grenada | |
| 1984 | Jan | Engineering and biological sciences building closed down by support system flaws |
| Feb | HSU draft register Ben Sasway gets two-year sentence for refusing to register | |
| Mar | Low enrollment raises talk of faculty layoffs • some faculty receive $2,500 Exceptional Meritorious and Professional Promise awards | |
| May | "Reflections on the Future" held, with faculty brainstorming on HSU's strengths and weaknesses • Frank Wood retires • KHSU receives grant to increase its wattage and double its range | |
| Fall | Michael Wartell becomes vice president of academic affairs | |
| Sep | Remodeled Van Matre Hall occupied by geology and computer center • CIS major approved • enrollment declines to 6,113 students (5,709 FTE) • engineering and biological sciences building reopened after its third closure | |
| Oct | Donna Zacarro campaigns for her mother, vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro • student fees reach $684 per year | |
| Nov | School's worst football season, 0-10 • HSU receives papers of Donald Clausen, 18-year congressman from this district | |
| Win | Emeritus Faculty Association founded | |
| 1985 | Feb | Wrestlers win NCAC again • basketball team's 21-8 is best record in Humboldt history |
| Mar | Getting Out, theatre arts production, qualifies for National American Collegiate Theatre Festival at JFK Center in Washington, DC • Eugene Flocchini dies • Frank Devery, who retired in 1974, dies | |
| Apr | Chi Phi fraternity forms | |
| May | Students protest South African apartheid • former ASB president Bill Crocker appointed student member of CSU board of trustees • Tom Wicker lectures as part of Hadley Series • NBC sportcaster Dick Enberg chairs HSU Parent Fund • Don Strahan dies • Jean Stradley retires | |
| Jun | Homer Balabanis receives honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from HSU | |
| Fall | Academic reorganization: new colleges of behavioral and social sciences; natural resources; health, education, and professional services; business and technology; creative arts and humanities; ISSP abolished • lottery funds aid student education and sponsor special speakers • Art Stegman and Charles Yocum die • Lee Badgett becomes dean for college of business and technology • temporary athletic director Chuck Lindeman creates assistant athletic director position to promote athletics • cost for off-campus student estimated at $5,500 per year • rape, drugs, and liquor cause concern | |
| Oct | Linus Pauling speaks on campus | |
| Nov | Outbreak of AIDS anticipated by health center • Accuracy in Academe to monitor "liberal" professors • Bud Van Deren resigns as football coach after 20 years | |
| Dec | Virginia Rumble retires • Estelle McDowell dies: daughter of early benefactor William Preston and '37 grad | |
| 1986 | Jan | Friendship Lab opens in Founders Hall • Bella Lewitsky dance company visits • Humboldt Symphony conductor Madeline Schatz resigns • Dave Smith retires |
| Feb | Aviary completed for wildlife • Mike Dolby is football coach • Helen Everett, librarian from 1939-1967, dies • HSU has telecommunication capability | |
| Mar | Touring evangelist Jed Smock performs on Quad • SLC and Lumberjack Enterprises feud over student representation | |
| Apr | Lumberjack ranked among top 12 college newspapers in nation • skateboarding fad | |
| Jun | Lumberjack editor suspended for making political endorsements | |
| Sep | HSU converts back to semester system • Arcata Hotel reopens after remodeling • football squad called 'Jack Attack | |
| Oct | Lumberjack Days moved to fall • reentry students becoming more of a factor: 40% of student body is over 25; Phoenix Club reactivates, and a Reentry Center is established in House 55 • enrollment plunges from 6,220 to 5,865 • CSU admission requirements stiffen: more English, math, and foreign language • AIDS Awareness task force established • 125 additional acres given to Lanphere-Christensen Dunes • rally on Quad protests US involvement in Nicaragua • David Halberstam speaks on campus | |
| Nov | Washington Ballet performs • Lambda Sigma Nu becomes only campus sorority | |
| Dec | More budget cuts threaten layoffs | |
| 1987 | Jan | Former journalism instructor Alann Steen kidnapped by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon |
| Feb | Wells Fargo donates abandoned bank building for an HSU Museum of Natural History • conflict between AS and UC over raising student fees • Don Christensen named vice president of university relations • Richard Leakey lectures | |
| Mar | Theatre arts hosts national event, American College Theatre Festival • efforts to form an HSU student employee union fail • HSU commission on intercollegiate athletics recommends return to NCAA division III status | |
| Sep | Enrollment grows • Lee Bowker is new dean of behavioral and social sciences • sale of Coca Cola banned at Lumberjack Days as protest against their business with South Africa • Vern Henricks becomes assistant athletic director | |
| Oct | Center for Community Development receives grant to teach science and math to Native Americans at Happy Camp High School • jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie performs • Jim Hunt retires • pop singer Madonna donates $700,000 of equipment to theatre arts | |
| Nov | Todd Young Report criticizes administration • Don Lawson retires after 22 years • 385-acre tree farm given to HSU for forestry department to conduct research on hardwoods | |
| Dec | HSU chosen to host CSU's Summer Arts | |
| 1988 | Feb | McCrone delivers "State of the University" message to faculty • Janet Spinas and Tom Knight retire • condoms sold in cigarette machines • SLC proposes commencement pledge not to spoil the environment |
| Mar | Robert Everding is dean of creative arts | |
| Aug | Smoking banned in campus buildings • Allison Weber becomes first woman chair of California State Student's Association | |
| Oct | Jessie Turner Woodcock, 1917 graduate and lst living charter member of Alumni Association, dies at age 92 | |
| Nov | Modern Jazz Quartet performs • cross-country wins NCAC • YES celebrates 20th anniversary | |
| 1989 | Mar | Lumberjack observes 60 years of publication • satirist Mark Russell appears on campus • Film Festival celebrates 22 years |
| Apr | HSU's 75th anniversary • Marching Lumberjack's 20th birthday • Gay Awareness Week | |
| May | Women's softball wins NCAC | |
| Aug | Summer Arts sculptor John Roloff creates Humboldt Ship | |
| Oct | US News & World Report: "HSU 12th best in West" | |
| Nov | Time capsule buried on site of Student & Business Services Building, to be opened in 2065 | |
| 1990 | Jan | Frank Cheek's wrestlers win NCAC for 9th time in 13 years |
| Apr | Ann Reynolds resigns as CSU chancellor | |
| May | Master Plan calls for maximum of 8,000 FTEs at Humboldt | |
| Aug | Acting chancellor Ellis McCune labels CSU budget "the worst the California State University system has ever seen" | |
| Nov | Student & Business Services Building completed | |
| Dec | Founders Hall vacated for remodeling • HSU has more forestry majors than UC Berkeley or University of Washington | |
| 1991 | Feb | Moves to "multiculturalize" curriculum |
| Mar | Fred Whitmire, HSU Hall of Fame athlete, named new football coach | |
| Apr | Cultural Diversity Week • Barry Munitz is new CSU chancellor • women's softball wins 3rd conference crown in a row | |
| May | Approval of plan to reduce number of colleges from seven to four | |
| Aug | 11.5% of HSU students are from minority groups • Homer Balabanis dies at age 93 | |
| Sep | Record enrollment: 7,824 | |
| Oct | Associated Students establishes "Columbus Myth-Free Zone" | |
| Nov | Former student and faculty member Alann Steen freed after a hostage for five years in Lebanon | |
| 1992 | Feb | Library gets new computerized catalog system • Jesus Christ Awareness Week held |
| Mar | Creekview Apartments completed • Cultural Diversity Week celebrated • Chancellor Munitz names HSU the Center for Resolution of Environmental Disputes | |
| Apr | Major earthquake hits Humboldt County, but campus damage is minimal • Rick Botzler of wildlife names CSU's outstanding professor | |
| Aug | Newly remodeled bookstore opens | |