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Celebrating
80 years of Cougar Spirit
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| 1927 |
- Houston Independent School
District founds the Houston Junior College, a forerunner
to the University of Houston.
- Houston Junior College student
newspaper, The
Cougar, publishes first edition.
- Houston
Junior College’s first coach, John Bender,
chooses the cougar as the school mascot.
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| 1934 |
- Houston Junior College becomes University of Houston,
a four-year institution.
- UH yearbook, The
Houstonian, makes its campus debut.
- Ice Hockey was the first sports tournament won
by UH.
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| 1935 |
- UH's first commencement exercise
— 909 degrees are conferred.
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| 1936 |
- Acquisition of 110 acres —
three miles southeast of downtown Houston —
donated by the Taub and Settegast families.
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| 1938 |
- Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen
donate $335,000 for UH’s first building —
the Roy Gustav Cullen Building.
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| 1939 |
- First graduate courses offered.
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| 1940 |
- UH begins tradition with first
Frontier Fiesta.
- Men’s basketball team
organized.
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| 1944 |
- UH enrollment reaches a high
of 10,000 students due to returning Wold War II veterans.
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| 1946 |
- Cougar football team organized.
- UH’s first Homecoming.
- UH creates “Veteran’s
Village” to house returning World War II veterans.
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| 1947 |
- UH student Joe Randol wins mascot
name contest with his entry — “Shasta.”
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| 1950 |
- Dedication of the Ezekiel W.
Cullen Building.
- UH’s radio station, KUHF-FM,
goes on the air.
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| 1951 |
- Dedication of the M.D. Anderson
Library.
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| 1953 |
- UH’s KUHT-TV, the first
licensed educational television station in the nation,
begins broadcasting on Channel 8.
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| 1954 |
- University of Houston accredited by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
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| 1961 |
- UH enrolls first African American
student.
- UH becomes a state university
(Voted on by the 57th Texas Legislature. The bill
was officially signed in 1963.).
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| 1964 |
- UH Athletics Department is integrated
by students Elvin Hayes, Don Chaney and Warren McVey.
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| 1968 |
- Touted as the "Game of the
Century", Houston upset No. 1-ranked UCLA in
the Astrodome in this first nationally televised game
before millions and a record crowd of 52,639 fans
— the largest audience ever to attend a college
basketball game.
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| 1970 |
- Moody Towers Residence Halls
opened.
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| 1976 |
- Houston Cougars join the Southwest
Conference.
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| 1977 |
- Cougar football makes first Cotton
Bowl appearance.
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| 1980 |
- UH becomes home to Arte Público
Press, which showcases Hispanic literary talent.
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| 1982 |
- UH’s men’s basketball
team “Phi Slama Jama” places second in
NCAA Final Four Tournament (1983, 1984).
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| 1990 |
- Appointment of Margueritte Ross
Barnett as president, the university’s first
African American and first woman president and the
nation’s first to lead a major public research
university.
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| 1994 |
- First launch of UH's Space Vacuum
Epitaxy Center Wake Shield Facility aboard the Space
Shuttle Discovery, Flight STS-60.
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| 1996 |
- UH’s Carl Lewis captures
his ninth gold medal in the Atlanta Olympic games.
- UH System Board of Regents
merges the UH System chancellor and UH president
positions.
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| 2000 |
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| 2001 |
- Tropical Storm Allison devastates
Houston and ravishes the UH campus.
- UH had more students enrolled
in distance education classes than any Texas university.
- O.D. Brown, UH’s first
and only graduate of 1934, dies.
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| 2001-2002 |
- Arthur K. Smith becomes the
first person to hold the dual position of UH System
chancellor and UH president.
- UH celebrates its 75th anniversary.
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| 2002 |
- University of Houston awards
its 200,000th degree.
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| 2003 |
- UH football wins bid to the
Hawaii Bowl.
- UH gets $5 million renovations
— giving campus classrooms a fresh and exciting
look.
- Two bronze cougar sculptures
grace the front of the E. Cullen building across
from the Cullen Family Plaza Fountain.
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| 2004 |
- The M.D. Anderson Library Expansion
and Renovation campaign acquires 4,200 benefactors,
of whom 22 percent were first-time donors.
- UH’s Campus Recreation
and Wellness Center receives the National Intramural
Sports Associations Outstanding Sports Facility
Award (first of many).
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| 2005 |
- The University of Houston has
international partnerships with 71 countries, covering
six continents.
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| 2006 |
- UH research exceeds $78 million.
- UH received a grant from the
National Institute of Health to create the first
generation of nanobiologists.
- There are 3,500+ UH alumni
who own companies or who are president of businesses
and corporations.
- UH has granted a total of
232,422 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral
and professional degrees since 1927.
- UH extends a helping hand
to Hurricane Katrina evacuees through various efforts
across campus including admitting about 1,600 students,
more than any other institute outside the affected
area.
- UH commissions the renowned
urban planning group, Cooper, Robertson and Partners
to develop a broad master
plan to serve as a blueprint for growth for
the next 20 years.
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| 2007 |
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