Sesquicentennial
Month-by-Month Highlights of St. Lawrence History

Month	Year	Event
August	2000	Adirondack Semester commences operation.
September	1902	First woman professor at St. Lawrence, Mary Young (languages), begins teaching.
	1929	First Freshman Orientation program conducted
	1964	St. Lawrence's first international program, in France, inaugurated.
October	1899	St. Lawrence’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, New York Lambda, founded.
	1950	Appleton Arena dedicated.
	1954	Cornerstone of Atwood Memorial Hall laid; doors opened in the fall of 1955.
	1929	Madame Marie Curie dedicates Hepburn Hall to the cause of science.
	2001	Newell Field House dedicated.
November	1901	First home football game, a 0-0 tie with Middlebury.
	1928	Forestry program begun with gift of red pine seedlings for Sandbanks area.
	1999	Men’s soccer, in the midst of a 60-game unbeaten streak, wins the national championship with the first perfect season (22-0-0) in the history of NCAA soccer.
	2002	St. Lawrence hosts NCAA Division III men’s soccer Final Four.
December	1886	First campaign celebration in University's history.
	1912	Student Orchestra established.
	1948	Howard McKinley is named a Rhodes Scholar.
	1986	St. Lawrence restructures its calendar and establishes two 14-week semesters.
	2002	Campaign St. Lawrence concludes with $132 million in gifts, well over its original goal.
January	1934	First Winter Carnival.
	1951	First game played in Appleton Arena—a basketball game against University of Toronto; SLU wins, 66-58.
	1951	First hockey game in Appleton, a 5-3 loss to Dartmouth.
	1953	President Eugene G. Bewkes announces a long-range building program for the next few years, including a new library (ODY), a Student Union building (Noble Center), two new dormitories and a classroom building.
	2004	Student Center opens.
February	1906	Agriculture School chartered; becomes Canton College.
	1926	First intercollegiate men’s ice hockey game, a 1-0 loss to Clarkson.
	1950	Life Magazine covers Winter Carnival.
	1966	New York State Senator Robert Kennedy speaks on campus.
	1990	Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and a member of the “Chicago Seven,” speaks during Black History Month.
March	1872	"The Athletica," a sports organization, begins organized athletics at St. Lawrence.
	1962	Plans to relocate Canton College to a new campus across the Grasse River unveiled; St. Lawrence acquires all buildings from Piskor Hall south.
	1973	Writer Tom Wolfe comes to campus for the Steinman Festival.
	1992`	Over 150 students occupy Vilas Hall for a sit-in to voice concerns about the lack of student involvement in decisions made by the administration.
	2001	St. Lawrence becomes the first college to have both its men’s and women’s ice hockey teams in the NCAA Final Four in the same year.
April	1856	St. Lawrence University chartered.
	1861	First Theological School graduation.
	1921	Publication of second college songbook announced.
	1988	Wrestling wins the national championship, and men’s hockey plays in the national championship game in Lake Placid.
	1992	Giancarlo Esposito speaks at St. Lawrence University for the Spike Lee Film Festival.
May	1911	The Hill News prints its first issue as the student newspaper.
	1913	Frederic Remington’s widow gives his library to St. Lawrence.
	1970	Students go on strike in protest of the killing of four students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University.
	1989	Women’s lacrosse plays in an NCAA national semi-final game.
	2005	Ground broken for $40 million science center, largest construction project in University’s history.

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