Commencement Held June 16, 1905
June 16, 1905
New York State Normal College commencement held at Normal College Hall.
June 16, 1905
New York State Normal College commencement held at Normal College Hall.
This is now the downtown campus. The Normal College bought the land for this campus from the Albany Orphan Asylum, giving them the Willett Street property and adjacent land plus $75,000. The four and a half acre parcel purchased from the Asylum was bounded by Western Avenue (637 feet), Washington...
Dr. Aspinwall is appointed to the position. He was given no additional compensation for the job.
–First students admitted to the four year Draper/Goodwin liberal arts curriculum.
1906 January 8
The Willett Street building burns, destroying most historical records, the Alumni Memorial Window, the Soldiers Memorial Tablet and all the oil portraits of Principals, Presidents, and Executive Committee members which were hung in the gutted Assembly Hall. At its annual meeting on June 14 & 15,...
1906 June 15
New York State Normal College commencement held at Trinity Methodist Church.
Purple & gold again mentioned as school colors in the Echo. “The purple and gold” is a verse from a college song by Louise Ward Clement.
Albert Randolph Ross, Architect and Hon. George Lewis Heins, State Architect, jointly commissioned to design the new three building Washington & Western Avenue Campus. Ross designed the exterior in the classical Georgian style, while Heins offices prepares interior drawings and specifications....
It was reported at the June 24th and 25th alumni meeting that the Alumni Association had been incorporated to allow the receipt of bequests of funds. Incorporation also allowed them to sue and be sued. The treasurer announced at the same meeting that the Husted Fellowship Fund had reached a total...
Second fundraising campaign begun for a Civil War Memorial Tablet was launched by the Metropolitan Alumni Association at its February meeting. A. N. Husted named chair of the fundraising committee at the Annual Meeting in June. The new tablet is currently in storage in the University Archives.