June 1, 1937
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Alumni Association incorporated.
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June 1, 1953
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21 students become first ROTC graduates.
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June 1, 1957
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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.
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June 1, 1968
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Omaha University’s final commencement.
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June 2, 1941
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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.
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June 2, 1962
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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.
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June 2, 2008
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Groundbreaking ceremony for Mammel Hall, new home for College of Business Administration (http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-business-administration/mammel-hall/beginnings.php)
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June 3, 1930
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Nebraska Gov. Arthur J. Weaver delivers commencement address.
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June 3, 1937
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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
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June 3, 1944
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Saturday Evening Post publishes article on university’s course on church ushering.
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June 3, 1960
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Student Activities Building (now Milo Bail Student Center) and Applied Arts Building (later the Engineering Building and now CPACS Building) both dedicated.
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June 3, 1970
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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. Download as PDF of the Nov. 12, 1969, Gateway student newspaper documenting that day.
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June 4, 1912
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Harry Jerome becomes Omaha University's second-ever graduate.
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June 4, 1954
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Sophomore Bill Barnes ties national record in low hurdles at NAIA championships.
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June 5, 1913
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Omaha University’s first commencement with a graduating class.
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June 5, 1924
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Dorothy E. Williams becomes OU’s first black graduate. “Dorothy’s scholastic standing is something to be proud of,” noted the 1924 Gateway yearbook. “A character molded by high ideals.”
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June 5, 1971
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Bob Binderup becomes 25,000th graduate.
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June 6, 1911
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Claudia Galloway becomes OU’s first graduate.
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June 6, 1913
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UNO Alumni Association founded by the Class of 1913, the university first graduating class, composed of 11 graduates. See more important dates in Association history.
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June 6, 1996
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Power fails in Eppley Administration Building, Arts and Sciences Hall, the Fieldhouse and HPER Building, canceling classes and a high school basketball camp all of June 7.
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June 7, 1934
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Kansas Chancellor Dr. Ernest H. Lindley delivers commencement address at OU’s 25th graduation; 85 students receive degrees.
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June 7, 1939
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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.
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June 7, 1945
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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."
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June 8, 1910
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Graduate Studies created when OU Board of Trustees voted to create a graduate school at the newly founded university.
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June 8, 1938
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Commencement exercises formally open new campus.
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June 8, 1964
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OU promotes "Switch to CST" (college saving time), offering high school graduates 12 credit hours during the summer session.
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June 8, 1964
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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.
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June 9, 1941
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Northwestern University vice president and dean of faculties Dr. Fred D. Fagg is commencement speaker with address, "Can Men Use Wings."
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June 9, 1951
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Major Robert E. Whaley arrives at OU to establish U.S. Air Force ROTC unit.
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June 9, 1969
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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.
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June 9, 1997
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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.
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June 10, 1940
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Fortune Magazine publisher and Time, Inc., vice president Eric Hodgins commencement speaker.
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June 10, 1962
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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
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June 11, 1934
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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.
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June 11, 1998
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Nebraska ETV Network debuts UNO Television production, "Westward the Empire: Omaha's World Fair of 1898."
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June 12, 1975
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UNO Chancellor Ronskens 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.
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June 13, 1959
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Folk singer Dylan Todd performs on campus as one of seven summer convocations.
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June 13, 1970
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Sophomore Debbie Sullivan, reigning Miss Omaha, named Miss Nebraska, later competes in Sept. 7-12 Miss America contest.
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June 14, 1929
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University of Omaha faculty leave New York for European tour.
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June 14, 1968
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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.
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June 14, 1980
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Nebraska Business Development Center hosts informational meeting including financial planning assistance for tornado-stricken businesses.
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June 15, 1974
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Athletic Director Clyde Biggers leaves UNO for similar post at Richmond, Virginia University
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June 15, 1994
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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.
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June 15, 2006
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NU Regents approve creation of UNO School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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June 15, 2009
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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
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June 16, 1934
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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.
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June 16, 1939
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Gateway publishes first-ever summer issue.
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June 16, 1965
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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.
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June 16, 1966
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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.
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June 17, 1976
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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.
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June 17, 2007
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Heartland Refugee Resettlement program hosted in student center in conjunction with World Refugee Day declared by United Nations.
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June 18, 1980
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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.
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June 18, 2001
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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.
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June 19, 1970
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John M. Christ appointed head librarian, effective Sept. 1. He formerly was library director at Rockhurst College in Kansas City.
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June 19, 1997
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Ground broken on $6.6 million renovation of UNO Fieldhouse, later renamed for principal project donors Lee and Helene Sapp.
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June 20, 1930
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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
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June 20, 1986
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Mav Basketball Coach Bob Hanson opens the Varsity restaurant at 72nd and Pacific Streets.
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June 20, 1987
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Associate Professor of Psychology Deana Finkler begins 44-day stay in Egypt as part of the Fulbright Faculty Seminar Abroad Program
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June 21, 1968
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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.
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June 21, 1971
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Broadway actor Tom Noel reads the writings of Mark Twain in event sponsored by Student Programming Organization.
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June 21, 1979
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UNO Campus Recreation begins "Thirsty Thursday Turtle Races," held in Elmwood Park Castle Pavilion until 1984.
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June 22, 1914
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University hosts fourth Omaha Summer School of Missions which "offers the best plan now available for securing the education and equipment necessary for practical Christian activity" with study classes "conducted by instructors of national reputation" on the bible, foreign missions, home missions, etc.
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June 22, 1939
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Albert Tangora, unofficial holder of the world’s record for speed typing, provides demonstration in auditorium.
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June 23, 1965
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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.
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June 23, 1969
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Cornerstone laid for Allwine Hall.
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June 24, 2000
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Mav recruit Dan Ellis becomes first UNO player chosen in NHL draft as second-round selection. Defenseman Greg Zanon chosen in fifth round.
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June 25, 1951
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UNO junior George Marling begins a United Nations summer internship, spending eight weeks in the Swiss Alps.
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June 25, 1982
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UNO hosts Firecracker Senior Swimming Meet for about 350 of the Midwest's top swimmers.
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June 25, 1987
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Shakespeare on the Green debuts with “The Taming of the Shrew.”
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June 26, 1898
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Birth of OU President Milo Bail in Boonville, Mo. He served as OU Chancellor from 1948-1965.
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June 26, 1949
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OU golf team competes in National Intercollege Championship golf tournament in Ames, Iowa.
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June 26, 1980
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NU Board of Regents votes to terminate the UNO Engineering program by the end of 1981's fiscal year.
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June 27, 1933
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UNO Professor C.W. Helmstadter speaks on OU's regular KOIL radio program, addressing "Who Should Go to College." He follows that two days later with "Where to Go to College."
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June 27, 1962
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American Composers Showcase concert sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, OU's honorary music fraternity, presents a concert under direction of Al "Red" Travis.
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June 27, 1975
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Nebraska Gov. (and former OU student) J.J. Exon, Omaha Mayor Ed Zorinsky and 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.
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June 27, 2008
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Wind storm cuts power across the city, including to campus buildings, and destroys numerous trees in Elmwood Park.
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June 28, 1945
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British Baritone Earle Spicer presents a program of traditional American and English ballads and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan and Shakespeare.
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June 28, 1968
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Dr. Edward Zigler, professor and director, child development, Yale University, speaks as one of five guest lecturers speaking on retardation being sponsored by psychology and special education departments.
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June 28, 1982
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Cox Cable re-airs "The Omaha Weekly Comedy Special", a half-hour special including 30 short sketches performed by UNO drama students and others.
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June 29, 1962
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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.
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June 29, 1969
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Participants in UNO Opera Theatre's UNO Summer Opera Workshop stage first of two opera productions.
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June 29, 1972
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Folksinger Dan Chambers from Council Bluffs performs in the student center ballroom.
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June 29, 1979
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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.
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Jun 30, 1971
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Local group May 2nd performs for students in concert sponsored by Student Programming Organization.
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June 30, 1997
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Chancellor Del Web officially retires, 1997
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