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quotes.push("Feb. 28, 1958: Muscogee County School Board leases, purchases and renovates Shannon Hosiery Mill for $100,000 as site for initial classes.");
quotes.push("May 14, 1958: University of Georgia System conditionally accepts what’s becoming known as Columbus College for membership. Thomas Y. Whitley appointed first president.");
quotes.push("June 10, 1958: Georgia’s Board of Regents officially names Columbus College.");
quotes.push("Sept. 1, 1958: Georgia’s Board of Regents agree to make Columbus College the 17th institution in the University System of Georgia.");
quotes.push("Sept. 22, 1958: Peggy Watford is the first among students to register at Columbus College. (She needed a ride and got dropped off early.)");
quotes.push("Sept. 29, 1958: Classes begin at the refurbished Shannon Hosiery Mill as it reopens as Columbus College, with 13 faculty, 227 students and 5 academic programs.");
quotes.push("Nov. 8, 1958: Student Don Jenkins recognized for naming the school mascot, the Rebels. Gold and grey chosen as school colors.");
quotes.push("Dec. 9, 1958: First Columbus College men’s basketball team, led by coach Frank Townsend, loses its inaugural game, 80-52, against Georgia Southwestern at the Columbus High School gym.");
quotes.push("April 3, 1959: Columbus College freshman Margaret Wilson is crowned Miss Columbus 1959. "Women should go to college to develop their personalities," she says.");
quotes.push("Sept. 17, 1959: Frank "Sonny" Clements named athletic director of Columbus College.");
quotes.push("April, 1960: Columbus College baseball team, led by coach Frank "Sonny" Clements, debuts with a 5-2 win over Southern Tech.");
quotes.push("May 19, 1960: The Columbus College Alumni Association holds its organizational meeting.");
quotes.push("June 5, 1960: Columbus College holds its first graduation exercises, featuring 31 graduates.");
quotes.push("November, 1960: Muscogee County School Board approves preliminary drawings for four permanent buildings on what will become the main campus of Columbus College: administration-library building, a 23-classroom building, laboratory building and gym.");
quotes.push("Nov. 30, 1960: Freshman Barbara Smith crowned first homecoming queen of Columbus College.");
quotes.push("January, 1961: Harper Lee, the acclaimed author of To Kill a Mockingbird, speaks to a Columbus College student group on campus.");
quotes.push("April, 1961: Columbus College President Thomas Y. Whitley announces work will begin toward accreditation.");
quotes.push("Sept. 12, 1961: Bids awarded to R.H. Wright Jr and Associates to build the first four main campus buildings at Columbus College for $844,500, to be ready for fall 1962 classes. Construction begins about a month later.");
quotes.push("December, 1962: Columbus College starts moving from its birthplace at the former Shannon Hosiery Mill into new main campus buildings on what had been a dairy farm just a decade earlier.");
quotes.push("Jan. 6, 1963: Columbus College holds formal ceremony at new main campus location as the Muscogee County School District turns over the title to the property and buildings to the state Board of Regents.");
quotes.push("June, 1963: Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees awarded to first class graduating from Columbus College’s new campus.");
quotes.push("Fall, 1963: John Townsend, an honor graduate of Spencer High School, becomes the first black student to enroll at Columbus College. (He got his Columbus College Associate of Arts degree in May 1965 and went on to evemtually earn a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Georgia.)");
quotes.push("January, 1964: Twenty-seven citizens join forces to create the Columbus College Foundation to encourage private giving. Trustees hold their first meeting.");
quotes.push("April 14, 1965: Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders announces Columbus College will gain four-year status.");
quotes.push("September, 1966: Columbus College officially becomes a four-year institution.");
quotes.push("Fall, 1968: Columbus College announces women can now wear slacks and shorts to class.");
quotes.push("January, 1969: Columbus College announces plans to build College Woods apartments for 64 male students, to be completed in time for fall move-in.");
quotes.push("May 13, 1969: Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox is the main speaker for the dedication of the just-completed Fine Arts Hall.");
quotes.push("June 1, 1969: Ceremony held to announce names for several existing and soon-to-be-built Columbus College buildings. The names honor civic leaders who helped create the college: (Robert F.) Arnold Hall (science), (John P.) Illeges Hall (paramedical), (Walter) Richards Hall (administration), (W.C.) Tucker Hall (biology), (James W.) Woodruff Gym and (J. Quentin) Davidson Student Center. Also: (William) Howard Hall (classroom) honors the memory of one of the college's most beloved faculty members.");
quotes.push("December, 1969: College Woods student apartments open as Columbus College's first campus housing, available for $45 a month each.");
quotes.push("Dec. 12, 1969: Eight seniors graduate with Columbus College’s first four-year degrees in an informal ceremony. (Formal graduation is set for June 8, 1970.)");
quotes.push("January, 1970: Poll shows a majority of Columbus College students support the war effort in Vietnam.");
quotes.push("February, 1970: At the request of black students, the Student Government Association votes to "temporarily" discontinue the playing of Dixie at home Rebel basketball games.");
quotes.push("Feb. 27, 1970: Columbus College President Thomas Y. Whitley announces the college will discontinue use of the Rebel mascot.");
quotes.push("March, 1970: Campuswide election announced to select a new mascot asks students to choose between the Cavaliers, Cougars and Buccaneers. On April 16, 1970, the vote favoring Cougars as the new mascot is announced, along with new colors: red, white and blue.");
quotes.push("April, 1970: A major new roadway, Lindsey Creek Bypass, opens near campus. Later, it becomes part of Interstate 185.");
quotes.push("June 8, 1970: Columbus College holds its first baccalaureate class commencement at Columbus Municipal Auditorium with 178 seniors among the 212 degree recipients.");
quotes.push("June 19, 1970: Nancy Carr, a former Miss Columbus College, is crowned Miss Georgia 1970. Later, Nancy Carr Buntin becomes an active member of the CSU Foundation.");
quotes.push("June, 1970: Columbus College completes its first year of NCAA competition, winning the District 25 "all sports title."");
quotes.push("Dec. 2, 1970: Columbus College achieves full accreditation as a senior college, completing a process that began in spring 1965.");
quotes.push("Fall, 1971: Columbus College requests approval to begin offering its first master’s degrees, in education and business.");
quotes.push("January 1972: Talk surfaces about the possibility of Columbus College becoming a university.");
quotes.push("April, 1972: Columbus College President Thomas Y. Whitley bans rock concerts in Fine Arts Hall.");
quotes.push("June, 1972: Former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk speaks at graduation.");
quotes.push("Feb. 3, 1973: Atheria Carter crowned Columbus College’s first black homecoming queen.");
quotes.push("July 3, 1973: Groundbreaking held for Elizabeth Bradley Turner Center, which will become home for the college's new Continuing Education program.");
quotes.push("March, 1974: Reflecting a national trend, “streakers” draw a crowd at Columbus College, including at least one semi-clad female astride a motorcycle.");
quotes.push("June, 1974: Columbus College awards its first graduate degrees, in education.");
quotes.push("March, 1975: Groundbreaking is held on College Drive for new business administration and education building, later to become Jordan Hall.");
quotes.push("February, 1979: Columbus College President Thomas Y. Whitley announces plans to retire June 30, 1979, after leading Columbus College for 21 years.");
quotes.push("June, 1979: John Anderson, vice president for academic affairs, becomes interim president of Columbus College after the retirement of founding President Thomas Y. Whitley. (Anderson leaves Jan 1, 1980 to become president of Christopher Newport College.)");
quotes.push("June, 1980: William Lenoir, longtime science dean at Columbus College, becomes acting president upon the departure of interim President John Anderson.");
quotes.push("Aug. 1, 1980: Frances J. Brooke becomes the second president of Columbus College.");
quotes.push("March, 1981: Herbert Greene named head basketball coach at Columbus College.");
quotes.push("June 15, 1981: Frank Brown, assistant chancellor for finance and operations at the University of Houston, joins Columbus College as vice president for business and finance. (Later, Brown becomes president.)");
quotes.push("Summer, 1981: Sue A. Dezendolet, a veteran college administrator, hired as vice president for academic affairs, becoming the college’s first top-level woman administrator.");
quotes.push("July, 1982: Sonny Clements announces he will retire in July 1983 after 24 years as a coach and athletic director at Columbus College.");
quotes.push("May 14, 1983: Columbus College celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Founder’s Day Picnic featuring a 1,000 pound birthday cake and a Silver Streak Road Race.");
quotes.push("June 11, 1983: Columbus College holds its first outdoor graduation.");
quotes.push("April, 1986: Columbus College faculty issue a "no-confidence vote" to President Francis Brooke. After a second, identical vote the following February, Brooke announces his resignation. Regents ask him to stay until Dec. 31.");
quotes.push("Jan. 13, 1988: Georgia's Board of Regents announce the selection of Frank D. Brown, vice president for business and finance, as the third president of Columbus College.");
quotes.push("Oct. 17, 1988: Frank D. Brown is inaugurated as the third president of Columbus College, followed by an Inaugural Ball held at the Fort Benning’s Officer’s Club.");
quotes.push("May 24, 1988: Columbus College dedicates its new $7.8 million science building.");
quotes.push("Feb. 5, 1991: Alex Haley, acclaimed author of Roots, speaks at Columbus College's Fine Arts Hall.");
quotes.push("Sept. 20, 1991: Columbus College dedicates the Thomas Y. Whitley Clock Tower, including a time capsule that’s to be opened on May 14, 2058, the 100th anniversary of Columbus College.");
quotes.push("March 16, 1993: Columbus Council approves a change of name for Cody Road, which runs across the front of the Columbus College campus, to University Avenue, effective Oct. 1, 1993.");
quotes.push("Fall, 1993: Georgia’s new HOPE Scholarship program debuts, benefitting 161 freshmen entering Columbus College.");
quotes.push("January, 1994: Acclaimed author Maya Angelou appears on the Columbus College campus, at Fine Arts Hall.");
quotes.push("Fall, 1994: Columbus College launches a new graduate degree in environmental science, plusthe first post-baccalaureate degree for the School of Business.");
quotes.push("March, 1994: Columbus College stages its first “We Support Columbus College” annual fund drive, noting that the college has produced more than 15,000 graduates. (Later, this evolved into CSU Day.)");
quotes.push("May, 1994: The Columbus College Jazz Band is selected to perform at the Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival July 6-23, 1995.");
quotes.push("Fall, 1994: Columbus College enrollment reaches 5,534, and the state Board of Regents reports Columbus College is Georgia's fastest growing institution of higher learning.");
quotes.push("April 5, 1995: Groundbreaking ceremony held for Columbus College’s Challenger Space Center (later the Coca-Cola Space Science Center), encompassing a planetarium and an observatory.");
quotes.push("December, 1995: Georgia's Board Regents propose changing Columbus College from quarters to the semester system by fall 1998.");
quotes.push("April, 1996: Georgia's Board of Regents approve the concept of the Music Department becoming part of a new downtown performing arts center.");
quotes.push("June 12, 1996: Columbus College officially becomes Columbus State University.");
quotes.push("July, 1996: CSU establishes a Japanese garden on campus that’s a gift from Kiryu, Columbus’ sister city in Japan.");
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