A Celebration of Service 2020 | Memories and Milestones

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Professor Rick Alloway sets the scene for each service milestone with significant notes of historical context.

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[00:00:00.517](jazz music)
[00:00:05.400]Hello, my name is Rick Alloway.
[00:00:07.150]I'm an Associate Professor of Broadcasting
[00:00:08.939]in the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
[00:00:13.710]It's been a pleasure to be part of the university's
[00:00:15.416]Celebration of Service for the past several years
[00:00:18.440]to help recognize service from hundreds
[00:00:21.320]of valued university colleagues.
[00:00:23.299]In this disruptive year when it's not possible
[00:00:26.077]for us to gather in one space and at one time,
[00:00:29.277]it's still important to recognize that time
[00:00:32.190]with our annual review in five year increments
[00:00:34.839]of the historical events that were current events
[00:00:37.830]when our honored employees began their career journeys
[00:00:40.810]at UNL.
[00:00:42.017]Let's begin our stroll down short term memory lane
[00:00:45.490]with a look just a few years back
[00:00:47.277]as we honor those who are celebrating
[00:00:49.660]their five year employment anniversaries this year.
[00:00:52.755]We begin our journey in 2015, a year of movement and change.
[00:00:57.838]It was a year of movement in negotiations.
[00:01:00.579]After six years of discussion, 195 countries
[00:01:03.960]at the Paris Climate Change Summit endorsed a new agreement
[00:01:07.880]to aggressively reduce climate change.
[00:01:10.200]After seven years of negotiations,
[00:01:12.339]the US and 11 other countries finally reached agreement
[00:01:16.170]on the Transpacific Partnership.
[00:01:17.896]And after 13 years, negotiations finally culminated
[00:01:22.930]in an agreement limiting Iran's nuclear program.
[00:01:26.136]It was a year of movement in science.
[00:01:28.795]NASA's Horizon spacecraft moved past Pluto,
[00:01:32.477]taking breathtaking photos on the way.
[00:01:35.117]And NASA confirmed the presence of water on Mars.
[00:01:38.756]It was a year of movement in equality.
[00:01:42.120]The United States Supreme court affirmed same sex marriage.
[00:01:45.896]Canada's Prime Minister appointed a gender neutral cabinet.
[00:01:49.694]And Libby Lane became the Church of England's
[00:01:52.480]first female Bishop.
[00:01:54.530]In Nebraska, the legislature moved to ban the death penalty.
[00:01:57.879]Inmates in the Tecumseh Correctional Facility moved
[00:02:01.020]throughout that facility during the riot.
[00:02:03.610]And in Lincoln, several residents of the North
[00:02:06.060]and South Bottoms had to move in a hurry
[00:02:08.040]because the floodwaters were approaching the top
[00:02:10.690]of the levies.
[00:02:11.619]On campus, the Husker volleyball team kept on moving
[00:02:15.000]to its first National Championship.
[00:02:17.000]The movement on the football team was
[00:02:19.320]in the head coaching position as Mike Riley moved in.
[00:02:22.541]The UNL campus completed a move that shifted the management
[00:02:26.410]of the University Health Center to UNMC
[00:02:28.163]and its primary clinical partner, Nebraska Health.
[00:02:31.817]And in August of that year,
[00:02:33.283]Jean Cops proved you should keep moving
[00:02:35.980]by completing her undergraduate degree at age 87.
[00:02:40.870]Fortunately for the university,
[00:02:42.019]some of the movement that year was
[00:02:43.590]by a number of new employees
[00:02:44.920]moving to the campus to start their careers.
[00:02:48.010]And five years later,
[00:02:49.350]they are our first group being recognized
[00:02:51.057]in this year's Celebration of Service.
[00:02:54.100]We recognize and thank them for not moving, but for staying
[00:02:57.510]and making the campus a better place.
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[00:03:04.530]In 2010, an earthquake in Haiti killed 230,000
[00:03:08.850]and destroyed most of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
[00:03:11.800]A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the South island
[00:03:15.790]of New Zealand, causing widespread damage
[00:03:18.370]and several power outages.
[00:03:20.179]An explosion at the Deep Water Horizon drilling rig
[00:03:23.590]killed 11 and caused a massive oil spill
[00:03:26.430]in the Gulf of Mexico.
[00:03:28.056]And so much ash poured from the Icelandic volcano
[00:03:31.490]that I can't begin to pronounce
[00:03:32.883]that airspace over much of Europe had to be closed
[00:03:35.740]for a while.
[00:03:37.260]After a search lasting 200 years,
[00:03:39.041]the remains of Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus
[00:03:42.150]were discovered only to be reburied.
[00:03:45.139]After a 54 year run, the soap opera As the World Turns
[00:03:48.750]aired its last episode.
[00:03:50.620]Conan O'Brien's run as host of The Tonight Show
[00:03:53.140]didn't last quite as long,
[00:03:54.730]as Jay Leno took the job back that year.
[00:03:57.010]The the box office,
[00:03:58.810]the year's big movies included Toy Story Three,
[00:04:01.600]Despicable Me, Inception, The King's Speech
[00:04:04.579]and the seventh installment
[00:04:05.939]in a series that seem to have gone on long enough
[00:04:08.630]to be called Harry Potter in His Retirement Nest Egg.
[00:04:12.938]Google Trek came to the UNL campus in 2010
[00:04:16.560]for a more traditional trek,
[00:04:18.000]UNL students could visit the new outdoor adventure center
[00:04:20.700]which opened its expanded 13,000 square foot facility.
[00:04:24.040]And university communications teamed
[00:04:26.440]with information services to complete a digital trek
[00:04:29.600]to a new E-newsletter called UNL Announce.
[00:04:33.098]It was the year we lost movie stars Tony Curtis,
[00:04:36.150]Dennis Hopper, and Patricia Neal,
[00:04:38.130]TV stars Robert Culp, Art Linkletter and Tom Bosley,
[00:04:41.496]politicians Alexander Haig, John Murtha, and Robert Bird,
[00:04:45.840]and coaches John Wooden and Sparky Anderson.
[00:04:48.639]We also said goodbye to JD Salinger
[00:04:51.470]who wrote The Catcher in the Rye,
[00:04:52.858]and UNL's own Ted Sorenson
[00:04:55.270]who wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy.
[00:04:58.630]It was the year of the first generation iPad.
[00:05:01.097]And for an older generation,
[00:05:02.650]Lincoln was voted by US News and World Report
[00:05:05.310]as one of the 10 best places in the country to retire.
[00:05:08.334]Fortunately for us, retirement was the last thing
[00:05:11.270]on the minds of our next group of honored employees.
[00:05:13.475]In 2010, they started their careers at UNL.
[00:05:16.727]And 10 years later, here they are.
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[00:05:25.631]2005 was also a year of momentous breaking news events.
[00:05:29.810]Pope John Paul II died and more than 4 million people
[00:05:33.260]traveled to the Vatican to mourn him.
[00:05:34.994]The North Korean government admitted having nuclear weapons
[00:05:38.195]for protection from the US, they claimed.
[00:05:40.659]A terrorist attack on the London underground left 50 dead
[00:05:44.350]and 700 injured.
[00:05:45.737]It was a year of gains and losses in terms of civil rights.
[00:05:49.758]We gained the nation's first African American
[00:05:52.550]Secretary of State when Congress confirmed
[00:05:55.070]Condoleezza Rice's appointment in January,
[00:05:57.278]and the nation's first Hispanic Attorney General
[00:06:00.010]when Alberto Gonzalez was confirmed the following month.
[00:06:03.139]In October, we lost a civil rights icon, Rosa Parks,
[00:06:07.070]who refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955
[00:06:09.635]and became a symbol of the modern civil rights movement.
[00:06:12.960]She passed away at age 92.
[00:06:14.937]It was a year of devastating natural disasters.
[00:06:18.035]Ten people were killed in a rain soaked landslide
[00:06:21.080]in California
[00:06:22.290]And in August, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans
[00:06:24.970]and the Gulf Coast, leaving 1,836 dead
[00:06:27.395]and over 10,000 homeless.
[00:06:30.249]In Nebraska, Governor Dave Heineman took the oath of office
[00:06:33.550]and the helm of a state reeling from the effects
[00:06:35.710]of a recession,
[00:06:36.654]though Lincoln's unemployment rate ranked second lowest
[00:06:39.360]in the country at 4.1%.
[00:06:42.354]Those same Lincolnites could not smoke in public places.
[00:06:45.920]The Capitol city kept its tough no smoking policy,
[00:06:48.396]though a statewide effort failed,
[00:06:51.210]and the judge avoided the state's ban on same sex marriage.
[00:06:55.850]On campus, interviews were underway
[00:06:57.580]for a new Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs,
[00:06:59.680]replacing the retiring Jim Greeson.
[00:07:01.779]Dr, Juan Franco would accept the university's offer.
[00:07:05.278]94 students headed to the Gulf
[00:07:07.420]to help Hurricane Katrina cleanup efforts,
[00:07:09.640]while ironically the USDA awarded
[00:07:12.400]the university's drought research program $7.4 million
[00:07:16.270]to study the effects of having too little water.
[00:07:18.958]And a flood of a different sort was looming,
[00:07:21.090]one of publicity, as the campus prepared
[00:07:23.570]for the national spotlight
[00:07:24.790]to shine on the arrival of a new freshman
[00:07:26.739]named Tommy Lee.
[00:07:28.921]It was the year of Star Wars Three, the movie,
[00:07:31.838]Harry Potter Six, the book, and X-Box 360,
[00:07:35.770]the excuse for not getting your homework done.
[00:07:38.041]We learned the identity of Deep Throat that year.
[00:07:40.473]We also learned it's possible to transplant a human face.
[00:07:43.619]And we learned there is actually a 10th planet
[00:07:46.500]in our solar system farther out than Pluto,
[00:07:48.739]though it shows no signs of intelligent life.
[00:07:52.410]Fortunately for the university,
[00:07:53.700]there were ample indications of intelligent life that year
[00:07:56.210]as displayed by our honored employees celebrating 15 years
[00:07:58.836]of dedicated service to UNL this year.
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[00:08:07.660]2000, ah, yes, the first year of the new millennium.
[00:08:11.459]Or was it?
[00:08:13.123]Regardless of which side of the 2000
[00:08:15.459]versus 2001 debate you came down on,
[00:08:18.942]everyone was relieved the dreaded Y2K bug didn't pan out
[00:08:22.643]as feared.
[00:08:23.859]One bug that did catch on, however, at least in Europe,
[00:08:27.450]was Mad Cow Disease.
[00:08:28.781]While in Africa, the battle was on
[00:08:31.010]to slow the spread of AIDS
[00:08:32.480]and the US pledged to commit a billion dollars to help.
[00:08:36.206]Here at UNL, a $10.4 million research grant
[00:08:39.518]from the National Institutes of Health
[00:08:41.890]established a viral research center.
[00:08:43.822]It was the year of the human genome project
[00:08:46.750]that would map the human chromosome.
[00:08:48.302]It was the year Yugoslavia would join the map
[00:08:51.280]of the United Nations.
[00:08:52.710]And it was the year the world would follow the path
[00:08:54.750]across map of the little Cuban refugee, Ellian Gonzalez,
[00:08:58.182]who was reunited with his family after being found
[00:09:01.120]in the Atlantic Ocean.
[00:09:02.585]President Bill Clinton expanded the National Park Service
[00:09:05.443]while his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
[00:09:08.020]expanded her political insights by declaring her candidacy
[00:09:10.665]for the Senate race in New York.
[00:09:13.465]Wildfire scorched nearly half a million acres of land
[00:09:17.260]in the West, while in the East and other hot property,
[00:09:19.960]the Broadway musical Cats closed after a record 18 year run.
[00:09:23.865]The outcome of the US presidential election would result
[00:09:27.022]in a bit of a long run as well,
[00:09:28.870]with George W. Bush finally declared the winner a month
[00:09:31.540]after election day.
[00:09:32.622]And we were all introduced
[00:09:34.360]to the concept of the hanging chad.
[00:09:36.585]In Nebraska, personalized messages were offered
[00:09:39.970]for Husker license plates, some of which probably showed up
[00:09:42.660]in pictures taken by the cameras
[00:09:44.082]the Attorney General authorized that year
[00:09:46.630]for use at busy intersections.
[00:09:48.345]It was a tough year for the state's crops.
[00:09:51.470]Our record cold winter was followed by a severe drought.
[00:09:54.083]But in spite of the extreme weather,
[00:09:56.377]a crop of hardy, new employees took root here at UNL.
[00:10:00.130]And we salute their 20 years of bountiful service this year.
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[00:10:10.560]1995 is still fresh in at least some of our memories.
[00:10:14.739]Ellian Gonzales was barely a year old.
[00:10:17.241]Seinfeld, ER, Friends, and Mad About You
[00:10:20.950]were the hot TV shows.
[00:10:22.323]Some still are, but in syndication.
[00:10:24.782]Gasoline cost a mere $1.26.
[00:10:27.523]It was a year of earthshaking events,
[00:10:30.110]like the 7.2 level earthquake that devastated Kobe, Japan.
[00:10:33.374]Closer to home, the shock waves were from a bomb
[00:10:36.810]that destroyed the Alfred P. Merle Federal Building
[00:10:39.340]in Oklahoma city,
[00:10:40.521]while the Capitol Mall in Washington, DC rumbled
[00:10:42.975]with sounds of feet from Louis Farrakhan's
[00:10:45.801]Million Man March,
[00:10:47.459]and stadiums around the country reverberated
[00:10:50.070]with hymns during the Promise Keepers rallies
[00:10:53.330]In Nebraska, Holdridge was named one of
[00:10:55.107]the 100 best small towns in America,
[00:10:57.742]while the state's third largest city,
[00:10:59.900]that would be Memorial Stadium on home game days,
[00:11:02.339]enjoyed playing host
[00:11:03.980]to another National Championship Husker football team.
[00:11:07.410]The Board of Regions began a review of peer institutions
[00:11:10.010]to compare faculty salaries and administrative costs.
[00:11:12.921]And the internet was going great guns on the campus
[00:11:15.317]until 200,000 gallons of water flooded the basement
[00:11:18.739]of the Walter Scott engineering building,
[00:11:21.490]disrupting internet service on campus
[00:11:23.059]and across seven states.
[00:11:25.401]The federal government ran out of money at year's end,
[00:11:28.620]but luckily there was enough left
[00:11:30.020]in state government coffers in 1995
[00:11:32.041]to lure our next group of a hundred employees
[00:11:35.120]to begin work at the University of Nebraska.
[00:11:36.942]And now 25 years on,
[00:11:39.102]they celebrate a quarter century of service.
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[00:11:47.203]1990, a new decade which began in conflict.
[00:11:51.081]Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait resulted first
[00:11:54.880]in Operation Desert Shield
[00:11:56.264]and then Operation Desert Storm.
[00:11:58.585]Elsewhere in the world that year of violence erupted
[00:12:01.810]in England over that country's poll tax,
[00:12:03.641]East and West Germany were reunited
[00:12:05.898]after years of separation,
[00:12:07.865]while Nelson Mandela parted company
[00:12:10.350]with the prison cell he had occupied for 27 years.
[00:12:14.060]Boris Yeltsin was elected President
[00:12:16.000]of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
[00:12:19.240]Mary Robinson became the first female President
[00:12:21.545]of the Irish Republic,
[00:12:23.401]while Nebraska's female Chief of State,
[00:12:25.545]Governor Kayor, played host to president George Bush
[00:12:28.883]as supporters dug into their pockets
[00:12:30.970]to attend a political fundraiser.
[00:12:33.260]And Sue Hendrickson did some digging of a different sort,
[00:12:35.543]unearthing a 50 foot, female Tyrannosaurus Rex
[00:12:38.963]in South Dakota.
[00:12:40.890]That T-Rex was 65 million years old,
[00:12:43.521]bringing perspective to those UNL employees
[00:12:46.025]who feel like they've been around forever.
[00:12:48.141]Well, it has been 30 years.
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[00:12:57.120]1985 was a big year for benefit concerts.
[00:12:59.961]The first Farm Aid concert brought national attention
[00:13:02.799]to the plight of America's food providers,
[00:13:05.170]while Bob Geldof's live AID benefit,
[00:13:07.363]and the song We Are the World tried to provide food
[00:13:10.630]to those in Africa and elsewhere who were struggling
[00:13:13.300]with famine.
[00:13:14.217]Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary
[00:13:16.723]of the Communist party in the USSR,
[00:13:19.001]while Daniel Ortega became President of Nicaragua.
[00:13:22.803]In Nebraska, a 47 year old Omaha woman
[00:13:25.850]became the state's first heart transplant patient,
[00:13:27.843]while the legislature wrestled with the weighty decision
[00:13:31.040]of whether or not to make the paddle fish the state fish.
[00:13:36.270]At UNL, $60 million in renovation and building projects
[00:13:39.483]were sprucing up the look of the campus.
[00:13:41.842]The WIC Alumni Center opened
[00:13:43.810]while the land acquisition process was underway
[00:13:46.160]for a new performing arts venue
[00:13:48.350]to be called The Lead Center.
[00:13:50.847]It was the year AIDS first made the cover of Time Magazine.
[00:13:54.264]The year we first heard the ozone layer over the South Pole
[00:13:57.305]was thinning,
[00:13:58.425]the year Nintendo launched its first video game console,
[00:14:01.422]opening whole new windows for entertainment
[00:14:03.843]and carpal tunnel syndrome.
[00:14:06.023]And speaking of windows,
[00:14:07.662]1985 was the year a little software company released
[00:14:11.430]its first version of a new computer operating system soon
[00:14:14.062]to become a favorite of personal computer users
[00:14:16.782]and US Justice Department officials.
[00:14:19.759]It was the year of Madonna's Material Girl
[00:14:22.185]and the opening of the musical version of Les Miserables.
[00:14:25.005]And it was the opening act of several new careers
[00:14:27.625]for the dedicated 35 year employees we honor this year.
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[00:14:38.530]1980s saw the passing of Alfred Hitchcock
[00:14:40.723]and the assassinations of Oscar Romero,
[00:14:42.963]the arch Bishop of San Salvador,
[00:14:44.799]and former Beatle, John Lennon.
[00:14:47.156]In Lake Placid, the US hockey team beat Finland
[00:14:50.770]to complete a miraculous journey
[00:14:52.420]toward a gold medal in the winter Olympics.
[00:14:54.062]The US would join 57 other countries
[00:14:57.150]in boycotting the summer games later that year in Moscow.
[00:14:59.902]Poland Solidarity party became
[00:15:02.640]the first independent trade union in the East block.
[00:15:05.283]Raging Bull featured a best actor performance
[00:15:08.540]by Robert DeNiro, while another actor took home a
[00:15:11.250]slightly bigger prize when Ronald Reagan
[00:15:13.740]was elected President.
[00:15:14.862]Washington didn't have all the hot air that year, thought.
[00:15:18.360]Across the country, Mt. Saint Helens blew its top
[00:15:20.859]with a force that registered 5.2 on the Richter scale.
[00:15:24.302]Closer to home, the average new car cost just under $7,000
[00:15:28.825]and you could wash it for just a quarter.
[00:15:31.422]The drinking age moved from 18 to 20,
[00:15:34.300]and Governor Charles Stone cut the university's budget
[00:15:36.702]by $3 million.
[00:15:38.641]Campus buildings were converted
[00:15:40.697]to a computerized energy system
[00:15:42.681]and the Nebraska Academy of Science
[00:15:45.043]celebrated its 90th birthday.
[00:15:47.715]The "Who Shot JR" episode of Dallas
[00:15:50.563]was the most watched program to that point
[00:15:52.585]in television history.
[00:15:54.590]And Ordinary People won the Oscar for best movie.
[00:15:58.260]Luckily for UNL, a dedicated group
[00:16:00.100]of extraordinary people came to work that year.
[00:16:02.185]And they celebrate 40 years of service this year.
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[00:16:11.230]1975 was a year of major technological advances.
[00:16:14.681]Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft,
[00:16:17.801]High overhead, the US spacecraft Apollo 18 docked
[00:16:21.241]with the Soviet Soyuz 19, while closer to home,
[00:16:25.241]ads in the Daily Nebraskan promoted adding a turntable
[00:16:28.520]to your ultimate stereo system.
[00:16:31.040]Electronic watches were becoming more affordable.
[00:16:33.417]Calculators began showing up more and more often
[00:16:36.260]in campus classrooms.
[00:16:37.880]And the residence halls boasted new
[00:16:39.890]and upgraded telephone service in dorm rooms.
[00:16:42.639]Mood rings were big. Pet rocks were big sellers.
[00:16:46.190]Disco ruled. Yes, these were heady times.
[00:16:49.742]Other events of note, a national recession.
[00:16:53.270]Spain's Generalismo Francisco Franco died.
[00:16:56.301]36 nations signed the Helsinki Accords outlining
[00:17:00.080]the policy of detante between East and West.
[00:17:02.735]And the last American troops left Vietnam.
[00:17:05.683]The death toll, 56,000 Americans
[00:17:08.259]and 1.3 million Vietnamese.
[00:17:11.920]In New York, the musical A Chorus Line opened
[00:17:14.700]and a new comedy showed debuted on NBC,
[00:17:17.099]live from New York on Saturday nights.
[00:17:20.403]Bruce Springsteen released his Born to Run album.
[00:17:23.810]Closer to home, Lincoln police asked UNL students
[00:17:26.290]to help control snowball fights.
[00:17:28.099]And the first Kings Food Host closed its doors,
[00:17:31.980]another Lincoln tradition gone.
[00:17:33.961]But the tradition of fine university employees was alive
[00:17:36.600]and well.
[00:17:37.800]And several 45 year employees
[00:17:39.970]are celebrating that tradition this year.
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[00:17:48.322]Suddenly the world seemed a little smaller in 1970.
[00:17:52.024]The Concorde made its first supersonic flight
[00:17:54.920]and the continent seemed a bit closer together.
[00:17:57.522]Australia's Indian Pacific Express railway
[00:18:00.521]began crossing the country from end to end twice each week.
[00:18:04.620]Mexico City's metro system opened.
[00:18:06.285]And the People's Republic of China launched
[00:18:08.504]its first satellite.
[00:18:11.510]In the midst of all these people coming together,
[00:18:13.440]the Beatles called it quits
[00:18:14.808]and Paul McCartney released his first solo album.
[00:18:18.066]Lincoln's own Zieger and Evans released In the Year 2525
[00:18:22.990]and appeared at the university's homecoming dance along
[00:18:25.025]with Fats Domino.
[00:18:27.429]It was the year Apollo 13 almost didn't make it back
[00:18:30.870]to home base,
[00:18:31.810]while Willie Mays and Hank Aaron got 3,000 hits,
[00:18:35.210]many of them involving a home base of a different sort.
[00:18:38.050]And Jack Klugman and Tony Randall created perhaps
[00:18:41.180]the most dysfunctional of homes in The Odd Couple.
[00:18:44.370]It was a time of unrest on college campuses.
[00:18:47.550]Four Kent State University students were killed
[00:18:49.930]by Ohio National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest.
[00:18:54.390]Here at home, African American students walked out
[00:18:57.170]of a student council meeting to protest discrimination
[00:19:00.120]in fraternities and sororities.
[00:19:02.237]The university's female-only dorms converted
[00:19:05.730]to a no-hours policy, while on East campus,
[00:19:09.140]Nebraska ETV began construction
[00:19:11.093]of a $3.4 million expansion.
[00:19:14.330]And a new library space was secured
[00:19:16.330]on the second and third floors of Nebraska Hall
[00:19:18.860]to help ease overcrowding in lower.
[00:19:21.510]The planet did seem crowded, now holding 3.6 billion people.
[00:19:26.210]And some of the best of those folks came to work that year
[00:19:28.376]for the university of Nebraska.
[00:19:30.360]They are celebrating 50 years of service
[00:19:32.978]to the institution this year.
[00:19:37.076](upbeat music)
[00:19:40.360]1965 was a year of headlines, here are just a few.
[00:19:44.916]Malcolm X was assassinated.
[00:19:47.101]Martin Luther King Jr. led over 3,000 civil rights workers
[00:19:51.160]on a 50 mile march from Montgomery, Alabama to Selma.
[00:19:54.955]The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy testing.
[00:19:59.741]The Watts riots of August left 34 dead and 1,000 hurting.
[00:20:04.600]The Big Bang Theory was introduced long
[00:20:06.876]before we'd heard of Sheldon Cooper
[00:20:09.240]or Leonard Hoffsteader.
[00:20:10.621]Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person
[00:20:14.040]to walk in space.
[00:20:15.950]He would be followed later that year by American Ed White.
[00:20:19.400]Medicare and Medicaid began providing health insurance.
[00:20:23.076]The first US ground combat troops landed in South Vietnam.
[00:20:27.938]It was the year The Rolling Stones
[00:20:29.910]couldn't get no satisfaction,
[00:20:31.858]the year the hills were alive with the sound of music,
[00:20:35.378]the year Sonny and Cher sang I Got You Babe.
[00:20:38.950]And the year John Fogarty and the Golliwogs recording
[00:20:42.000]as Creedence Clearwater Revival
[00:20:43.560]would have a hit with Brown Eyed Girl.
[00:20:46.636]And it was the year Bill Cosby and Robert Culp
[00:20:49.090]would star together on TV in I Spy.
[00:20:52.077]The Mustang was Ford's new sports car.
[00:20:55.090]Miniskirts and the mod look were hot.
[00:20:57.780]And Nebraskan David Janssen stared as TV's The Fugitive.
[00:21:02.397]On campus, the university turned 96.
[00:21:05.672]And to celebrate elevators were installed in Able Hall.
[00:21:08.941]The grading scale was changed
[00:21:11.100]from a nine point numerical system
[00:21:13.020]to the A through F system used today.
[00:21:16.300]Pat Boone sponsored a radio program saluting the university.
[00:21:19.980]And in seemingly unrelated events,
[00:21:21.917]Dead Week was created before final exams
[00:21:24.758]while more students than ever sought psychiatric treatment.
[00:21:29.150]A gallon of gas cost all at 31 cents.
[00:21:31.930]And the football coach named Bob Devaney
[00:21:34.090]got a raise to push his salary to a whopping $22,000 a year.
[00:21:39.750]The big headline of that year, however,
[00:21:41.350]was the arrival of a dedicated group
[00:21:43.050]of new university employees,
[00:21:44.221]some of whom are celebrating 55 years of service
[00:21:47.938]to the campus this year.
[00:21:50.040](upbeat music)
[00:21:54.850]Congratulations to everyone celebrating
[00:21:57.120]an employment anniversary this year.
[00:21:59.140]And thank you for your service to Nebraska.
[00:22:02.210]Now in my own 35th year at UNL, I'm Rick Alloway.
[00:22:06.840](soft music)

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