This Week In KU History

Mangino announces
2005 recruiting class

Charley Oswald
doubles record
commitment for his alma mater

Grad’s appearance
with Johnny Carson
a favorite memory

Landmark’s makeover
provides new home
for Hall Center

Technology gains
finally force closing
of KU Printing Services

TV’s ‘The Apprentice’
auditions KU alumni
for upcoming season

‘Hawks overcome
Texas, Mizzou;
Stallworth jersey
hangs in rafters

KU First tops
goal at $653 million

Former students find
way to honor
memory of Ralph “Buzz” Adams

Get loud, get proud:
cheer, dance squads
Finish well in nationals

Chancellor addresses
Senate committee,
outlines successes,
challenges for KU

Business

Engineering

Fine Arts

This week in
KU History

KU baseball, softball teams prepare for opener

Three alumni receive
Millie Award for service
to Alumni Association

Big Blue Mondays

Kansas Honors Program

Alunmi Travel Opportunities

Alumni Events

KUMC Alumni Events

University Events

This Week In KU History

February 2, 1904: KU Chancellor Frank Strong asks noted Kansas City landscape architect George Kessler to prepare the University’s first formal campus plan. Read the full story.

February 2, 1916: Braving below-freezing temperatures, over 4,000 KU students and local residents gather to see President Woodrow Wilson while his train pauses in Lawrence for “exactly three minutes and forty-five seconds.” Read the full story.

February 7, 1972: A group of approximately 30 KU women calling themselves the February Sisters peacefully occupy the East Asian Studies building at 1332 Louisiana to demand changes in campus policies concerning women.
Read the full story.

February 8, 1912: Sports-minded females at the University of Kansas organize the Women’s Athletic Association. Read the full story.

February 17, 1962: The Kansas Board of Regents votes funds to replace the original Fraser Hall, then the University’s oldest building, on the grounds that it had “outlived its usefulness.”
Read the full story.

February 18, 1930: Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old high school graduate from Burdett, Kansas who will later earn a degree in astronomy from KU, discovers the planet Pluto from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Read the full story.

February 20, 1939: More than six years after breaking Jim Thorpe’s decathlon record, James “Jarring Jim” Bausch – KU football, basketball, and track star extraordinaire – makes an unexpected visit to his alma mater. Read the full story.

February 23, 1895: KU physics and engineering professor Lucien I. Blake successfully transmits the first long-distance ship-to-shore message using underwater wireless technology. Read the full story.

March 1, 1955: The dedication of KU’s Allen Field House takes place on the night of the basketball Jayhawks’ only home conference victory of the 1954-55 season. Read the full story.

Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas

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