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James William Phillips graduates with a Bachelor of Arts degree, the first identifiable African-American male student to graduate from the school.

Marcia Brown became an author and illustrator of children's literature. Brown was one of only two three-time winners of the Caldecott Medal, the American Library Association's highest award for excellence in children's' picture-book illustrations. Brown's winning books were Cinderella, or the...

John Jennings is elected the first African-American president of the Student Council (also called the Student Association). He later had a prominent career in NYS Civil Services.

Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated on November 27, 1978.

Frances Allen grew up on a farm without electricity in Peru, New York and would go on to be the first woman to win the Turing Award. After her graduation from the State College for Teachers, Allen fulfilled her Declaration of Teaching pledge by teaching mathematics. She then obtained an MS in...

First doctorate (an Ed.D.) awarded to James Arthur Conway of School of Education, SCT, BA ‘54.

Harriet Tucker becomes the first Black Homecoming Queen chosen. At the time, Black students are a very small percentage of the student body.