Alumni Association incorporated
21 students become first ROTC graduates
Omaha University football team begins one-year probation administered by NCAA after OU in 1956 used two players who did not meet its definition of amateur status. The two players, John Cimino and Marv Nevins, were allowed to play under NAIA rules.
Omaha University’s final commencement
OU offers free summer defense courses, in cooperation with the University of Nebraska and under subsidy of the government. Courses were offered in day drafting and shop practice, production supervision and industrial management.
Roger “Rocket” Sayers defeats eventual world-record holder Bob Hayes of Florida A&M in the 100-yard dash, winning the NAIA championship in 9.5 seconds. Sayers would successfully defend the championship in 1963, adding the 200-yard title in 21.3 seconds. Hayes won the 100-yard title in 1961 and the 100-meter 1965 NAIA title. He set the 100-meter world record of 10.06 seconds at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Groundbreaking ceremony for Mammel Hall, new home for College of Business Administration
Nebraska Gov. Arthur J. Weaver delivers commencement address
Longtime campus benefactor Sarah Joslyn receives honorary doctor of letters degree. She had given the university at least $85,000 and land. Joslyn Hall was named in honor of her and her husband, George.
Saturday Evening Post publishes article on university’s course on church ushering
Read about "OU's School for church ushers" in the Fall 2006 issue of UNO Alum magazine.
Student Activities Building (now Milo Bail Student Center) and Applied Arts Building (later the Engineering Building and now CPACS Building) both dedicated.
Omaha "54" found guilty of unlawful assembly during Nov. 10, 1969, sit-in at President Kirk Naylor's office to protest racism on campus. A fine of $50 and costs was assessed on Robert "Jericho" Honore, with other defendants receiving fines of $15 and costs.
Harry Jerome becomes Omaha University's second-ever graduate.
Sophomore Bill Barnes ties national record in low hurdles at NAIA championships
Omaha University’s first commencement with a graduating class.
Dorothy E. Williams becomes OU’s first black graduate
Bob Binderup is 25,000th graduate
Claudia Galloway is OU’s first graduate
On Tuesday, June 6, 1911, one of the most important events in UNO history took place in Jacob’s Gymnasium on the original campus in north Omaha—the commencement ceremony for the first Omaha University (OU) graduating class.
Although OU was not due to graduate its first class until 1913, transfer student Claudia Galloway had completed the necessary requirements and became the only member of the class of 1911.
Commencement festivities included an address on the progress of education by superintendent of Omaha Schools Dr. William Davidson and a musical program performed by the Ladies’ Harmony Quartet.
A representative of the OU Board of Trustees and Judge Howard Kennedy, formally bestowed upon Galloway the title Bachelor of Arts, thereby producing the first UNO alumnus.
Galloway's portrait is far right, second row from the bottom.
UNO Alumni Association founded by the Class of 1913, the university first graduating class, composed of 11 graduates.
Power fails in Eppley Administration Building, Arts and Sciences Hall, the Fieldhouse and HPER Building, canceling classes and a high school basketball camp.
Kansas Chancellor Dr. Ernest H. Lindley delivers commencement address at OU’s 25th graduation; 85 students receive degrees
Du Pont scientist L.F. Livingstone delivers commencement address; later presents pair newly invented nylon stockings to Sybel Haynes, OU student and daughter of OU President Rowland Haynes. She is to report her experience to Du Pont.
Union Pacific Quartet performs in OU auditorium to open the third general session of 14th annual Summer Institute for Women titled, "What's Ahead for Women"
Graduate Studies created when OU Board of Trustees voted to create a graduate school at the newly founded university
Commencement exercises formally open new campus
OU begins a National Science Foundation Summer Institute for up to 30 high school science and math teachers; program is funded by a $75,100 federal grant
Northwestern University vice president and dean of faculties Dr. Fred D. Fagg is commencement speaker
Major Robert E. Whaley arrives at OU to establish U.S. Air Force ROTC unit
UNO Opera Theatre begins eight-week summer workshop for singers from Omaha and surrounding areas; six credit hours offered in courses including opera production, opera theatre and opera coaching
Zhou Wenzhong, minister of the embassy of the People's Republic of China, delivers short press conference at UNO, one month before Hong Kong's formal July 1 return to China
Stephanie Ahrens is UNO's first NCAA Division I All-American after tying for 8th in the 2018 NCAA Championship with a high jump mark of 5-10. She later earned her second All-American honor in high jump at the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships.
Fortune Magazine publisher and Time, Inc., vice president Eric Hodgins is commencement speaker
UNO starts summer institute for secondary school science and mathematics teachers. The institute is funded by a $67,900 grant from the National Science Foundation.
OU Football Coach Sed Hartman starts 11-day high school coaches clinic, assisted by Nebraska Coach Dana X. Bible (also president of the American Football Coaches Association) and Nebraska Track Coach Henry F. Schulte. OU and Nebraska players aid in the demonstrations.
Nebraska ETV Network debuts UNO Television production, "Westward the Empire: Omaha's World Fair of 1898."
UNO Chancellor Ron Roskens begins 12-day visit to Afghanistan, fulfilling an annual obligation tied to a $1.5 million grant the U.S. Agency for International Development awarded to UNO. University faculty already had begun teaching and consulting at Afghanistan's Kabul University.
Folk singer Dylan Todd performs on campus as one of seven summer convocations
Sophomore Debbie Sullivan, reigning Miss Omaha, named Miss Nebraska, later competes in Sept. 7-12 Miss America contest
University of Omaha faculty leave New York for European tour
Dr. Rue Cromwell, department of psychiatry, school of medicine, Vanderbilt University, speaks as one of five guest lecturers speaking on retardation being sponsored by psychology and special education departments.
Nebraska Business Development Center hosts informational meeting including financial planning assistance for tornado-stricken businesses
Athletic Director Clyde Biggers leaves UNO for similar post at Richmond, Virginia University
City of Omaha closes five-way intersection in Elmwood Park, south of UNO, as it changes it to a four-way intersection. New parking lots also installed.
NU Regents approve creation of UNO School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Vint Cerf, "The Father of the Internet" and vice president for Google, speaks to UNO students, faculty, staff and local business professionals at Scott Conference Center in presentation hosted by Peter Kiewit Institute and Gallup Organization
Four Omaha students, including future Omaha Mayor and Nebraska Congressman Glen Cunningham, leave Omaha for a visit to the Pablo, Montana, home of OU Professor Dr. C.W. Stimson. They travel 4,000 miles in Cunningham's 1919 Model T Ford.
The Gateway publishes first-ever summer issue
The Gateway staff 1939–1940
OU sophomore Carroll Jean Dolinsky leaves for a year of study in Japan as one of 30 East-West Center Institute for Student Interchange scholarship recipients
OU Regents vote to rename five of the university's six colleges so that they are more in style with the nomenclature of progressive colleges across the nation, according to OU President Leland Traywick.
Democratic Republic of the Sudan President Yaafar el Numairi visits UNO campus. UNO Chancellor Ron Roskens awards him an honorary doctor of laws degree during a ceremony.
Heartland Refugee Resettlement program hosted in student center in conjunction with World Refugee Day declared by United Nations
Walter Cooper, Dean of Healthy, Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Southern Mississippi, highlights discussion of a newly developed bill of rights for young athletes held on UNO campus.
Historian Gregory Franzwa presents slide show depicting a 1924 trans-continental motor car tour running along the old Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco.
John M. Christ appointed head librarian, effective Sept. 1. He formerly was library director at Rockhurst College in Kansas City.
Ground broken on $6.6 million renovation of UNO Fieldhouse, later renamed for principal project donors Lee and Helene Sapp.
OU Professor Albert Kuhn of the history and German departments leaves New York as part of the Student's Travel Club, the largest educational tour organization in America. Kuhn was to direct one of the main tours to Europe. On board the ship he organized and directed the social and educational program of 300 to 500 people.
Mav Basketball Coach Bob Hanson opens the Varsity restaurant at 72nd and Pacific Streets
Associate Professor of Psychology Deana Finkler begins 44-day stay in Egypt as part of the Fulbright Faculty Seminar Abroad Program
Dr. Jerome H. Rothstein, professor and director of doctoral studies in special education, San Francisco State College, speaks as one of five guest lecturers speaking on retardation being sponsored by psychology and special education departments.
OU freshman Samuel Slotky earns praise for his actions after the tornado, running miles to notify the soldiers at Fort Omaha of the devastation and asking for their help
Broadway actor Tom Noel reads the writings of Mark Twain in event sponsored by Student Programming Organization
UNO Campus Recreation begins "Thirsty Thursday Turtle Races," held in Elmwood Park Castle Pavilion until 1984.
University hosts fourth Omaha Summer School of Missions
Albert Tangora, unofficial holder of the world’s record for speed typing, provides demonstration in auditorium
UNO senior Sheri Hronek begins a summer graduate course at Radcliffe College after being one of 50 students in the United States chosen for the honor
Chancellor Kirk Naylor and others lay the cornerstone for Allwine Hall. The building, dedicated in 1970, housing biology and chemistry, was named for Arthur A. Allwine.
Omaha Mavericks recruit Dan Ellis becomes first UNO player chosen in NHL draft as second-round selection by Dallas Stars. Defenseman Greg Zanon chosen in fifth round by Ottawa Senators.
UNO junior George Marling begins a United Nations summer internship, spending eight weeks in the Swiss Alps
UNO hosts Firecracker Senior Swimming Meet for about 350 of the Midwest's top swimmers
Shakespeare on the Green debuts with “The Taming of the Shrew”
OU golf team competes in National Intercollege Championship golf tournament in Ames, Iowa
Omaha University Golf Team, 1953
NU Board of Regents votes to terminate the UNO Engineering program by the end of the fiscal year
UNO Professor C.W. Helmstadter speaks on OU's regular KOIL radio program, addressing "Who Should Go to College"
American Composers Showcase concert sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, OU's honorary music fraternity, presents a concert under direction of Al "Red" Travis
Nebraska Gov. (and former OU student) J.J. Exon, Omaha Mayor Ed Zorinsky, State Senator John Cavanaugh and former Omaha Mayor Eugene Leahy announce a $6,000 study/survey to determine need for proposed UNO downtown education center.
Wind storm cuts power across the city, including to campus buildings, and destroys numerous trees in Elmwood Park
British Baritone Earle Spicer presents a program of traditional American and English ballads and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan and Shakespeare.
Cox Cable re-airs "The Omaha Weekly Comedy Special", a half-hour special including 30 short sketches performed by UNO drama students and others.
A special morning convocation features Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and the president of Ethiopia's University College of Addis-Ababa and OU Geography Professor Gordon Shilz speak via tele-lecture from Ethiopia. Also, the African Festival of Documentary Films presents films on Ghana, Nigeria, Tanganyika, South Africa, Kenya and elsewhere.
Participants in UNO Opera Theatre's UNO Summer Opera Workshop stage first of two opera productions.
Folksinger Dan Chambers from Council Bluffs performs in the student center ballroom.
Education Professor John Langan and his family officially opens the Elmwood Park Exercise Trail, one-and-a-half miles long and featuring 20 exercise stations. UNO's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation helped establish the trail.
Local group May 2nd performs for students in concert sponsored by Student Programming Organization
