OU regents approve construction of a fieldhouse
Big Nine Commissioner Tug Wilson is the featured speaker at a banquet honoring the 1947 football team.
OU athletes Merrill Gee, Russ Gorman, Jim Spencer, and Dick Christie appear on the KMTV quiz show Penny Auction, dressed in OU uniforms different from the sports in which they compete, trying to stump a woman contestant.
The nationally renowned U.S. Army Air Defense Command Choral Group sings at a special university convocation.
A panel of four graduates in downtown retailing speaks to members of OU's Retailing Club.
Washington University of St. Louis Head Football Coach Carl Snavely — "The Gray Fox" — addresses the University Quarterback Club's football banquet at the Fontenelle Hotel.
UNO radio station KBUL hosts three local bands at the Saddlecreek Bar.
Five members of the Indian Committee, appointed by The Gateway, visit the Omaha Indians in Macy, Neb., to collect lore and traditions.
OU participates in the first national Tele-Lecture Conference
The UNO women’s soccer team wins the national championship.
Led by 26 points from Mitch Albers, the UNO men’s basketball team records its first victory over an NCAA Division I team while playing as a D-I team, beating Northern Illinois 77–72.
Aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin dies, leaving $100,000 to the university via his will.
Nebraska Gov. Victor Anderson is the featured speaker during the Nebraska Association of College and Universities meeting held at OU.
The OU basketball team opens its season against Chihuahua Teachers College in Chihuahua, Mexico, later playing West Texas Teachers and the No. 1-ranked Phillips 66 Oilers.
Texas Athletic Director and former NU football coach Dana X. Bible is the featured speaker at OU’s third annual football banquet.
Vandals slash a total of 26 tires on 12 student cars on the OU campus.
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approves new athletic facilities at Baxter Arena and Maverick Park.
Omaha physician Dr. Aaron McMillan addresses members of the Pre-Med Club on "Tropical Medicine," based on his experiences in Africa.
OU hosts an open viewing of a 40-minute film featuring graphic accounts of injustices suffered by the people of a country at the hands of community military forces. The film was loaned to OU by the Hungarian Students Organization of the United States.
Marlin Briscoe is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame after a statue in his honor at UNO was unveiled in September. The statue can be visited next to Caniglia Field and the Pep Bowl.
Folk group The Youngbloods ("Get Together") perform in the Fieldhouse for about 3,000 concertgoers.
Stanton Salisbury, a member of the university's first graduating class and a Navy chaplain, survives strafing of his car during the attack on Pearl Harbor. A World War I veteran who survived the Battle of the Argonne Forest, he later becomes rear admiral and the U.S. Navy’s eighth chief of chaplains.
Conservative author Russell Kirk speaks on “The Future of Conservatism” in the Student Center Ballroom.
UNO’s Women’s Resource Center and Student Social Work Organization host a discussion, "Nuclear Arms Freeze Campaign," in the Student Center.
OU football team defeats East Central Oklahoma 34–21 in the 1962 All-Sports Bowl.
OU student Carolyn Nevins is murdered while waiting for a bus to take her home from campus.
OU President Milo Bail attends an Air Force ROTC conference at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
Arnold Air Society and Angels Flight host a Toys for Tots Dance, part of the first Toys for Tots campaign on campus.
Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, speaks at Peony Park Ballroom in an appearance sponsored by the UNO College of Continuing Studies.
The Omaha volleyball team wins the NCAA Division II national championship, defeating Tampa in a thrilling five-set match.
Dr. L.C. Wimberly, English professor at the University of Nebraska and editor of the Prairie Schooner literary magazine, speaks in the auditorium.
1934 graduate Thresa Clark is elected vice president of the Nebraska State Education Association.
OU's Public Affairs Institute hosts 27 government and quasi-government representatives forming the Metropolitan Area Discussion Group to address urban-rural growing pains.
Timothy Adebayo, vice president of the OU Geography Club and a native Nigerian, speaks on "The Geography of Nigeria" at the club's monthly meeting.
UNO Marching Mavs receive notice that they will perform at President George W. Bush’s inauguration parade on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C.
German newspaperman Karl Klein speaks to the International Relations Club concerning the “Hitlerite regime in Germany.” He had been employed with the Omaha Daily Tribune and was to take over publication of a German weekly in Buffalo, N.Y.
Graduate and faculty member William H. Durand, head of aeronautics instruction at OU, announces plans for a “flying wing” plane for Army reconnaissance and civilian use.
Members of the OU Women’s Recreation Association host a Christmas party for 41 homeless children at the Creche Home.
Washington University football coach Howie Odell addresses the OU football banquet.
Cleveland quarterback Otto Graham addresses the OU Quarterback Club football banquet.
OU founding president Daniel Jenkins is born in Flintshire, England.
Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward, originator of the pro baseball All-Star Game and Golden Gloves tournament, is the main speaker at the football banquet.
"Lupe" Joe Arenas finishes the season with the San Francisco 49ers as the NFL’s leading kickoff returner, averaging 34.4 yards per return (551 yards on 16 returns).
OU President Leland Traywick announces his resignation.
University of Omaha Regents approve purchase of the complete library of Tabor College (Iowa).
The American Chemical Society hosts a mixer for university and high school chemistry students at OU. The meeting includes displays of chemical instruments and a film, Bikini Island.
Tom Townsend begins duties as executive secretary of the OU Alumni Association.
The University of Omaha Choral Union presents The Messiah, leading more than 1,200 singers from throughout Nebraska and Iowa in Omaha's City Auditorium. The production concluded nearly two years of rehearsals. Noted opera baritone Reginald Werrenwrath performed. The concert was broadcast over WOW radio. The following year, 1,300 singers participated, assisted by the Bach Choir of Chicago. Fox Movietone of Chicago sent a sound unit to record portions of the choruses. It was believed to be the largest Messiah chorus in the country.
The university begins “Operation Booklift,” moving 104,000 volumes from the basement stacks in Arts & Sciences Hall to the new Gene Eppley Library.
Barbara Brillhart becomes the first woman commencement speaker.
Former UNO standout Brad Beckman, a tight end with the Atlanta Falcons, is killed in an auto accident.
UNO's Bethsaida Project, chosen by AMC Oakview 24 Theater and DreamWorks Pictures, hosts the first of two showings of Steven Spielberg's animated feature The Prince of Egypt. Project director Richard Freund said, “UNO was chosen because no other program in Nebraska has contributed more to the study of the Bible than Bethsaida.”
Eugene C. Eppey donates $850,000 to OU, the largest gift ever made to the university ($10.3 million today)
UNO President Kirk Naylor hosts the Omaha University Choir in a “From the President's Office” performance on KYNE-TV.
The UNO Chamber Choir takes part in the CBS Radio Network’s Cavalcade of Christmas Music, which airs on KKAR. The tradition dates to 1927 and involves eight university choirs performing Christmas classics. UNO presents a 24-minute collection including “Come Dear Children,” “A Cradle Hymn,” and “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.”
Independent Student Association members brave the snow to put “Santa hoods” on 956 parking meters.
Pulitzer Prize recipient and author James Michener inaugurates the ABC (Academy, Business, Community) Speaker Series as its first speaker.
Omaha Mayor Ed Zorinsky dresses as Santa Claus as part of the UNO Graduate Student Association Christmas party to entertain more than 150 senior citizens and orphans in the Student Center Ballroom.
The alumni committee chooses red and black as school colors.
Glen Haven Farm — Allwine Prairie — is deeded to the university by Arthur Allwine.
UNO Music Department awards its first Master of Music degree to Peggy Horracks, a coloratura soprano specializing in performance.
Rev. Walter N. Halsey, the university's first dean, dies. He also taught mathematics, history, and psychology.
Dr. Harlan Cleveland, president of the University of Hawaii, receives an honorary doctor of letters degree and delivers the commencement address in the UNO Fieldhouse, speaking on "The Limits of Obsession."
The Nebraska Supreme Court approves the Municipal University of Omaha.
OU students present A Dickens Christmas radio drama on KFAB.
OU President Milo Bail and his wife host a Christmas party for staff and non-faculty members and their spouses in the Student Conference Center.
UNO College of Education Professor G. Wayne Glidden dies of a heart attack in Bangkok, Thailand, while with a team of Americans working on an educational project for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. He, his wife, and their five children had lived in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 1974 to 1977 while he taught at Kabul University.
Sigma Chi Omicron holds a Christmas dance at the Blackstone Hotel.
Herbie Lowe and his South Dakota band perform for Pi Omega Pi's host Christmas dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall.
OU football team leaves Omaha by plane for the New Year’s Night Tangerine Bowl game against Eastern Kentucky State in Orlando, Fla.
UNO Chancellor Ron Roskens and 193 others, including students, faculty, and staff, leave Omaha for a 10-day tour of the Soviet Union.
Students, faculty, and staff depart for London and Athens to begin study in the first year of the UNO/UNL-sponsored European Study Tour.
National service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega hosts more than 100 outstate delegates at a three-day sectional convention at Offutt Air Force Base.
Sociology department chair Dr. Earl T. Sullenger is elected secretary-treasurer of the Alpha Kappa Delta national honorary sociological society at its national meeting in Cincinnati, making OU the national headquarters of the society.
More than 30 students depart on a bus for Orlando to watch the New Year’s Day Tangerine Bowl game between OU and Eastern Kentucky State.
Dr. V. Royce West, head of the Department of Foreign Languages, addresses the American Association of Teachers of Journalism in St. Louis.
At a special session of the Douglas County Board of Commissioners, members approve the sale of 140 acres at the north end of Aksarben to First Data Resources. As part of the purchase, FDR agrees to donate half the land to UNO, which plans to build its new College of Information Science and Technology on the site.
UNO students join other university students in Pascagoula, Miss., to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.