Dr. William E. Blatz, education consultant for the Dionne Quintuplets (the first quintuplets known to survive infancy) and director of the Institute of Child Study Service at the University of Toronto, Canada, is the featured speaker for the second annual Parent Education Institute at OU May 1 and 2.
Student Hamburger Eating Contest with Sun newspaper entertainment editor Pete Citron and a KOIL disc jockey
Marxist Angela Davis appears in UNO Music Hall at invitation of UNO International Women's Year Consortium.
Dick Cavett speaks at ABC Breakfast Series
UNO announced that it would field a men’s Division I hockey team for the 1997-98 season. Ticket reservations for the first season were sold out by May 16.
Omaha University plays University of Nebraska in first athletic contest, a baseball game. The Cornhuskers were winning by 14 runs when the game, held in Lincoln, was ended because of rain.
OU students take part in 1951 “Lights On” Cancer Control Campaign
John G. Neihardt speaks at Eppley Conference Center, delivering portions of his "A Cycle of the West" and "Black Elk's Prayer", sponsored by UNO-Community Writer's Workshop
Omaha author, photographer and philanthropist Howard Buffet speaks at UNO for annual underwriting fundraiser for Hike to Help Refugees. The event supports the work of the United Nations Refugee Agency.
OU's Air Force ROTC appears on WOW-TV's "Futures Unlimited," with drills and singing. "Futures" shows different aspects of OU activities.
OU gets new switch board, operated by Mrs. Corrada Huntington and student relief operators
Earl Scruggs, "probably the world's reigning monarch when it comes to picking a five-string banjo," noted The Gateway, performs at Civic Auditorium Music Hall for UNO's Spring Day
OU student Edwin Hogle wins first place in the State Peace Oratorical Contest
Municipal University of Omaha receives $138,000 check, one-third of PWA grant toward a new campus
Students take part in Candid Camera Day
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performs in for Student Programming Organization
Omahans vote to establish Municipal University of Omaha
On 10th anniversary as municipal university, OU announces establishment of a the Omaha Hall of Fame for citizens
Nebraska Gov. Val Peterson and his wife, state legislators and administrators, Omaha Mayor Glenn Cunningham and Commissioner John Rosenblatt tour Omaha University then dine with President Milo Bail.
Randy Newman performs in Milo Bail Student Center ballroom
OU students perform folk dances and songs during tea hosted by the American Association of University Women in Blair, NE
Roger Brooke, second secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., speaks to three groups on campus
UNO Chancellor Del Weber accepts policy banning smoking in campus buildings except in designated areas.
Renovation begins on Milo Bail Student Center Food Court
OU students vote 257 to 16 to adopt “Indians” as the university’s new nickname
OU students and faculty join in morning V-E Day program; classes dismissed afterward
OU wins NAIA national bowling championship
NBC new anchor David Brinkley on campus to take part in a live telecast, “Report form Washington,” a 90-minute question-and-answer period
Actress Val Gray, 'the voice of the black writer," appears at UNO, accompanied by the five-member Kuumba Workshop troupe of Chicago; program sponsored by the Black Liberators for Action on Campus and the Student Program Organization
Free demonstration and discussion on "the use of computer in institutions and research" in Engineering building
John Christensen named UNO Chancellor, first graduate to hold that post
Work begins on the removal of the NET broadcast tower on the Dodge Campus after being used for over 50 years
OUampi Room, the new Student Activities Building snack bar, opens its doors
Guerrilla combat topic of discussion in Student Center after 20 U.S. Army Special Forces green berets parachute into field west of Crossroads Mall
Omaha voters reject a mill levy to increase support to the university, 38,048 votes against, 28,631 for
After Omaha Women's Softball shared the Summit League regular season crown for the first time, the team won its third straight Summit League Conference Championship Tournament leading to its third Division I NCAA Tournament
Gateway club organized "for purpose of boosting athletics and school activities of all kinds"
OU freshman Mildred Gibson wins first place in the Girls Division of the Atwater Kent radio singing contest held on WOW
OU students audition for spot on coast-to-coast network radio broadcast, “Original Amateur Hour”
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Henningson Memorial Campanile introduced a new campus icon. The tower is dedicated to Margre Durham's farther, mother and sister: Henning H., Rose P. Henningson and Hellen Henningson Grimes.
Pictured (left to right): Gov. Kay Orr, Charles Durham, Margre Henningson Durham, Chancellor Del D. Weber and the University of Nebraska Foundation President Terry L. Fairfield.
Cornerstone laid for Fieldhouse
Omaha singer C.W. McCall ("Convoy") performs at Civic Auditorium Music Hall, along with Mannheim Steamroller, in a concert sponsored by UNO's Student Programming Organization
Omaha Women's Softball claimed its first Summit League Conference Tournament Championship, which earned the team its first NCAA Division 1 Tournament appearance and first victory.
"Action for Palestine" rally held for students at the Jewish Community Center "for all students who are interested in the Palestine problem. A request will be sent from the rally meeting asking the United Nations not to allow themselves to be used as a tool by the British Foreign Office."
OU campus radio station, KWOU, goes on the air thanks in part to transmitter built by physics students for less than $20
Angel drill team, associated with Omaha University's U.S. Air Force ROTC, performs for Armed Forces Day in Hastings, Neb.
First “Ma-ie Day,” a Native American-oriented festival celebrating spring and planting season
Omaha University's U.S. Air Force ROTC hosts first Military Ball, at Peony Park ballroom. Marilyn Sibert named first honorary colonel
First meeting of Regents Commission on the Urban University, a program founded by Board of Regents to study needs of cities
College of Business Administration Building (now Ron and Lois Roskens Hall) dedicated
UNO baseball team clinches at least a share of the Summit League title — then wins it outright the next day — in a win over South Dakot State. It is the first conference championship of any UNO team in Division I competition.
OU holds first Campus Sing competition. Four men's groups and five women's groups sing two songs each on the front steps of Arts & Sciences Hall. Theta Chi won the men's contest, Zeta Tau Alpha the women's.
OU receives $11,371 grant from Atomic Energy Commission to acquire equipment for use in nuclear science and engineering programs.
UNO wins women’s College World Series softball national title
Henningson Memorial Campanile dedicated
UNO Football Coach Sandy Buda announces retirement after 12 years heading the Mavericks
First graduates of UNO European Studies program granted degrees during formal commencement exercises in May in Wiesbaden, Germany
Davenport, a 25-year-old painted brown and white horse, wins the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival "Funniest Horse Contest," claiming the right to play the role of Petruchio's horse in "The Taming of the Shrew" at shakespeare on the Green
Omicron Delta Kappa Circle founded
Seniors present university with “Victory Bell” (now missing)
Dean A.J. Dunlap begins six-day “commencement tour” across state in plane painted blue and white with the monogram of the Municipal University under its wings
Judy Samuelson first UNO student to be chosen from among nine “sweethearts” as College World Series Queen
UNO wins NCAA Division II softball national championship
UNO Brush and Palette Club sponsors auction of 150-200 works of art by UNO students on display at Joslyn Art Museum
Students in Business Cycle class tour Omaha stock and grain exchanges, seeing "the famous ticker" in action and being treated to a dish of ice cream, compliments of class teacher Dr. J.H. Rhodes
Omaha students Don Ryan, Robert Johnson and Virginia Lee depart for Bryce Canyon National Park, where they were hired to help stage a series of dramatic productions for park guests
OU takes part in four days of tele-lectures; speakers include LSU Professor of Speech Dr. Wendell Wilksell, who speaks from a pay telephone booth on Bourbon Street in New Orleans
LIFE magazine publishes feature on OU campus life, “Omaha Undergraduates do this,” featuring Frances Blumkin, daughter of Rose Blumkin, being lofted into the air in a blanket toss
University begins first three-semester year
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai visits campus, receives honorary doctorate of humane letters.
Arrowhead Society launched. The leadership organization honored senior men "who has distinguished himself by high scholarship and demonstration of leadership through outstanding achievement in at least one major and minor captivity"
Alumni Association hosts annual family picnic for alumni in Hanscom Park
Student Steve Jones finishes second in 800 meters at NCAA Division II Naitonal Outdoor Track Championships in Macomb, Ill., posting the second-fastest time in NCAA Division II history (winner Evans White of Prairie View set the record in the win)
Approximately 400 senior citizens attend Senior Celebration Day on campus
University Board of Regents present a model of the campus "as it will look when all buildings are completed." The model was produced by architects John Latenser and Sons.
W. Robert Jenkins, son of university founding president Daniel Jenkins and a one-time OU student, presented Citation for Alumni Achievement during Achievement Day Banquet.
Romanian Folkloric Ensemble Somesul-Napoca performs and conducts a dance workshop at UNO's Strauss Performing Arts Center in appearance sponsored by Omaha International Folkdancers and Moving Company of UNO
A ceremonial groundbreaking was held for the $17.1 million addition to the Biomechanics Research Building. It will house, among others, the Center for Cardiovascular Research in Biomechanics (CRiB), established in 2024 after UNO received an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Commencement moved to Omaha Civic Auditorium; Commencement typically held outdoors with the Fieldhouse as a backup in case of rain, but Fieldhouse was under construction.
OU's University Orchestra gives symphony concert at Joslyn Memorial
1936 Pulitzer Prize winner Felix Morely, former editor of the Washington Post and a noted journalist, educator and political scientist, delivers the commencement address at commencement.
Class of 1913 celebrates 50th anniversary during Alumni Association awards banquet.
Student Programming Organization — SPO — changes name to Maverick Productions.
SPO was established in 1968/1969, just after the Municipal University of Omaha merged with the University of Nebraska system to become the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Prior to the merger, SPO's predecessor organization at OU was the Student Union Board (SUB). SUB was a non-chartered organization of students who assisted the Director of the Student Center in the planning of events and programs at the Municipal University of Omaha in the 1960s.