1960:
February: A new student health center opens at 16221 Petoskey, across from Reno Hall.
February 27: Shiple Hall dedicated and opened.
May 23: The King and Queen of Nepal visit the University. The King receives an LLD at a special convocation.
September: The university installs IBM punch card equipment to streamline registration.
October 21: The Fisher Fountain is dedicated. (Charles T Fisher was president of the National Bank of Detroit).
October: Co-eds are required to put heel guards on their high heels to protect the floor in the Memorial Bldg during the Homecoming dance.
October 30: Rev. Laurence V. Britt S.J. is installed as president.
October 30: Plans are announced for the construction of a women's dorm. The next step in the U of D Total Development Program.
November: It is announced that the St Francis Club will get a new building. The funds will come from St Francis Club members and alumni. At this point it has grown from 24 founding members to 73 with over 400 alumni. The new building is designed by Karl H. Greimel, Asst. Dean of Architecture.
1961:
February: Brooks Patterson, VN reporter, travels to the University of Georgia to report on integration.
April 20: The Men's Union Board of Governors vote to cease its operations at the end of the semester.
May 1: The Student Council votes to discontinue the J-Prom, an institution since 1914.
May 1: The university is host to the Second Annual International Inter-Collegiate Turtle Race.
September: Enrollment is 10,957.
September: Tommy Titan makes his first appearance at a pep rally.
October 20: The university buys the Chrysler Corp office building at E. Jefferson and McDougal for the relocation of the Dental School.
November: WJR radio station donates its library of vocal music to the U of D Chorus. It's worth about $30,000.
1962:
Honors Program is started. (Thomas More Honors House is 16253 Petoskey).
January 11:The Student Council formally receives a petition for a campus chapter of the NAACP.
February 15: Senator Barry Goldwater speaks before an overflow crowd in the Student Union Ballroom. The senator is here at the invitation of the Young Republican Club.
March: The computing lab in Briggs gets a new IBM1622, made possible by a grant from the NSF.
March 22: Student Council rejects the NAACP petition via secret ballot. Controversy rages.
April 1: Formal opening of the south wing of Lansing-Reilly Hall
April 7: Last performance of the concert band.
May 5: The Third Annual Inter-collegiate Turtle Tournament takes place at Northland Shopping Center. Mad Chugger, Delta Sigma Phi's entry, wins the world championship.
September: Enrollment is 10,358.
September: The Rathskeller opens in the basement of the Student Union, replacing the old snack bar.
September: The St Francis Club locates to temporary quarters (15946 Livernois), while the old building is demolished and the new one built.
September: The university owned house at 16261 Petoskey is named the Janisse Building after Dr Dennis R. Janisse who died in July. It will house the department offices of sociology, speech, radio-television, and institutional research.
October 9: The Student Council holds an open meeting on whether or not there should be an NAACP chapter on campus.
October 18: The Student Council rules on the campus status of the NAACP. It is accepted.
November 14: Robert Frost reads poetry at the Memorial Building.
1963:
Dinan Hall is demolished to make way for a ramp to I-375.
April 23: A proposed new auditorium will be a 1200 seat multipurpose facility, built with the aid of the $50,000 carny pledge.
May: The St. Francis Club moves into their new building--16601 Livernois.
May 3: Johnny Mathis is the featured performer at the Spring Carny.
Summer: Dedication of the Shrine of Our Blessed Mother.
September: Enrollment is 9570.
Fall: The Folklore Archive is founded by Frank Paulsen and James Callow of the English Dept.
September: A new Pep Band is organized with 20 members. They debut at the Northern Michigan game Sept 27.
November: Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalist society the charter of a U of D chapter.
November 25: Requiem Mass is held in the Memorial Building for the repose of the soul of JFK.
1964:
January: The NSF awards a grant of $58,300 to the university for support of a Summer Institute for secondary school science teachers.
July: The library begins the conversion from the Dewey Decimal system to the Library of Congress system. The project is expected to take 4 to 5 years to complete.
Summer: A new Masters in Theology program is inaugurated.
Fall: A new Office of Financial Aid opens on campus.
Fall: The Quodlibet Club opens in the Palmer Hotel on Livernois across from the Briggs Bldg.
September: Enrollment is 9622.
September: The Red Door opens in the basement of the Student Union.
October 26: The new Dental School building is formally dedicated and blessed.
October 30: The Red Door Room is officially dedicated.
October 31: A new U of D chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, national honorary fraternity is installed at the university.
November 30: The University announces it is dropping varsity football. There are student demonstrations (some call them riots) over the next few days.
1965:
January: Students can now major in music and art in cooperation with Marygrove College.
February 27: Carlos Montoya plays at the second Town and Gown Concert in the Ballroom.
March 2: A new national mathematics honors fraternity, Pi Mu Epsilon, is installed with 54 members.
April 30: Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck play at the Spring Carnival in the Memorial Bldg. It is expected to be last carnival. (The first was in 1949.)
May: A Faculty Council is formed.
June: The Aeronautical Engineering Department is phased out.
August 1: ROTC is no longer compulsory for male engineering students. The program goes from 4 to 2 years and is elective.
Fall: The Law School receives a grant of $250,000 from the Office of Economic Opportunity (War on Poverty) to establish an Urban Law Program.
September: Enrollment is 9182.
September 29: Joni Mitchell sings folk at the Red Door.
November 1: The Chemical Engineering Dept. moves from the Chemistry Bldg to renovated space in the Engineering Bldg.
November 1: "In White America" a program tracing African American history 'from slavery to the modern day.' is presented at the Memorial Bldg as part of the Town and Gown Series.
1966:
Foley Hall (formally the Palmer Hotel) opened in the fall as a woman’s dorm. It is located on the west side of Livernois just north of Grove.
The doctoral program in chemistry is added.
June: Faculty Club closes.
July1: Rev. Malcolm Carron, S. J. is installed as president.
September: Enrollment is 8626.
September 1: The Faculty Club reopens at 16605 Livernois.
September 29: Fisher Administration Building is dedicated.
September 30-October 2: The first Fall Carnival. The Glenn Miller Orchestra is featured.
October 29: Bobby Kennedy makes a stop at the Memorial Building to speak on behalf of local Democrats.
1967:
The Elm Bark Beetle has infested all of the Elm trees on campus and half have been removed.
Holden Hall is a women's dorm.
Doctoral programs in English and engineering are added.
Enrollment is 8803.
January: The University submits a proposal to the city council to close Florence.
January 12: Dr Kevorkian discusses his paintings on display in the Red Door.
January 13: The Underdogs play at the Rathskeller.
January 15: Simon & Garfunkel play at the Memorial Bldg in a special Town & Gown concert.
March: The formation of a University Senate is approved by the Board of Trustees.
March: The new Psychology Clinic opens, located at 16185 Petoskey Ave.
March 3: Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, makes his third appearance at the Memorial Bldg.
April 6: The Tau Beta Pi bronze monument is dedicated to the memory of Clement J Freund, Engineering dean (1932-1962) is set by the west door of the engineering bldg.
May 3: Ford Life Science Building is dedicated by the Very Reverend Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the Jesuit Order.
Fall: An experimental course exchange program with Madonna, Marygrove, and Mercy College is in progress.
September 20: The Faculty Club is disbanded due to lack of use.
September 22: First club football game played against Fordham.
September 28: The Fifth Dimension play at the Memorial Bldg as part of the Fall Carnival festivities.
October 13: A concert featuring pianist Roger Williams with orchestra is at the Memorial Bldg.
October 22: The Ramsey Lewis Trio play at the Memorial Bldg.
November 10: Arthur Fiedler conducts the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra at the Memorial Bldg.
1968:
Enrollment is 8880.
The old baseball diamond has been displaced by the Ford Life Sciences Bldg. It is moved over to the east of the Engineering Bldg and officially named Brazil Field by AD Bob Calihan.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is the Keynote Speaker at the Slide Rule Dinner.
The Polymer Institute is founded by Kurt Frisch.
January: The Fisher Family donates its mansion at 1771 Balmoral in Palmer Woods to the university.
January 19: Ed Ames appears at the Memorial Bldg.
February: The Women's League votes to disband.
April 5: Memorial services for Dr. Martin Luther King are held in the Memorial Building.
Fall: The U of D Theatre has a new home in Life Sciences 113.
August: A six month trial closing of Florence Ave from Livernois to Dexter begins.
November 7: 125 coeds hold a sit-in to emphasize their concern over recent assaults on campus.
November 25: Ground is broken for a 2.4 million addition to the Student Union.
1969:
Dudley Randell comes to the University as a librarian and poet-in residence.
Fall: The Music-Poetry Happening known as the Mind Garden debuts.
February 2: The Alvin Ailey Dancers perform at the Memorial Bldg.
April 28: First Meeting of the University Senate.
May: Center for Neighborhood Relations created. It initiates programs such as: a Basketball Clinic, Saturday Morning is for KIds, Project Open Up, and a remedial reading clinic.
Summer: The University initiates Upward Bound.
September: Anti-ROTC protests take place on campus.
September 21: The Statue of the Black Madonna is unveiled in Sacred Heart Square.
Enrollment is 9310.
October: Anthropologist Margaret Mead lectures on the “Closing the Cultural and Ethnic Gap” at the student union ballroom.
October 2: Students for a Democratic Society disrupt five classes to announce plans for an anti-ROTC rally scheduled to take place at 11am.
October 15: 'Moratorium on the Vietnam War' teach-in.
October 19: Blood, Sweat, and Tears concert at the Memorial Building.
October 23: The Quads are dedicated.
November: The Black Studies Program, consisting of 11 courses, is adopted for Term II.
November 14: Dionne Warwick concert at the Memorial Building.
