Milestones and Memories

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Associate Professor of Broadcasting Rick Alloway hosts his annual trip down memory lane, looking back at significant events over the past 60 years.

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[00:00:05.670]Hello. My name is Rick Alloway. I am an Associate
[00:00:08.190]Professor of Broadcasting in the UNL College of Journalism &
[00:00:11.790]Mass Communications. It’s a pleasure to be part of the
[00:00:15.330]university’s Celebration of Service again this fall to help
[00:00:18.720]recognize service by hundreds of valued university
[00:00:21.210]colleagues. For the past couple of years, it hasn’t always
[00:00:25.290]been easy for us to gather in the same space at the same
[00:00:28.680]time. Yet it is still important to recognize that time. So,
[00:00:33.540]let’s celebrate our colleagues with our annual review, in
[00:00:36.780]five-year increments, of the historical events that were
[00:00:39.900]current events when our honored employees began their career
[00:00:43.290]journeys at UNL. We’ll begin our stroll down short-term
[00:00:48.240]memory lane by looking back just with a few years – as we
[00:00:52.140]honor those who are celebrating their five-year employment
[00:00:54.900]anniversaries this academic year.
[00:00:58.440]2016 doesn’t seem so long ago. It was a year of wins and
[00:01:03.330]osses on the international stage. 195 countries signed onto
[00:01:08.340]he Paris Agreement to become more proactive in improving
[00:01:11.610]he climate. The Trans-Pacific Partnership didn’t meet with
[00:01:15.150]s much support. Brazil and South Korea impeached their
[00:01:19.140]residents due to scandals. And in June, Great Britain voted
[00:01:22.980]o leave the European Union, a decision that would be
[00:01:25.890]ollowed by the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron.
[00:01:29.910]nd in the U.S., a high-profile businessman beat out a
[00:01:33.240]igh-profile politician when Donald Trump defeated Hillary
[00:01:36.810]linton for the presidency. On the field, the Denver B
[00:01:39.960]oncos beat the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl, while a
[00:01:43.260]the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Michael Phelps e
[00:01:46.350]ded his career with 23 gold medals and Usain Bolt won gold f
[00:01:50.640]r the third time while flying to victory in the 100-meter e
[00:01:53.880]ent. On the UNL campus, the flying was of a different v
[00:01:57.210]riety, with Matt Waite from the College of Journalism & M
[00:02:00.270]ss Communication drawing attention in national media o
[00:02:03.120]tlets for his work with drones. We lost some important v
[00:02:07.500]ices that year. David Bowie, Prince, Glenn Frey, Merle H
[00:02:12.120]ggard and the producer of the Beatles’ voices, George M
[00:02:15.330]rtin. Also literary voice Harper Lee, the distinctive v
[00:02:19.410]ices of actors Alan Rickman and Gene Wilder, Nancy Reagan a
[00:02:23.460]d Mohammed Ali, among others. And though he didn’t die, we l
[00:02:27.600]st another distinctive voice when legendary baseball p
[00:02:30.660]ay-by-play announcer Vin Scully called his last L.A. D
[00:02:34.380]dgers game, completing an astonishing 67-year career in b
[00:02:38.790]seball press boxes. It was a deadly year on several f
[00:02:43.350]onts. The Syrian War approached six years and 400,000 c
[00:02:47.640]sualties. The Pulse Nightclub shooting spree in June left 4
[00:02:51.600]dead and 53 injured, while a fire during a dance party in a
[00:02:56.280]warehouse in Oakland killed 36. And mosquitos were public e
[00:03:00.870]emy #1 for their role in spreading the Zika virus. And it w
[00:03:05.670]s a year of big dollar transactions. AT&T bought Time W
[00:03:09.750]rner for 85-point-four billion. Hamilton set a record for m
[00:03:14.160]st money earned in a week on Broadway at three-point-three m
[00:03:17.100]llion. And a lock of John Lennon’s hair sold at auction f
[00:03:20.850]r 35-thousand dollars. Bill Gates’ worth was estimated at 7
[00:03:26.490]-billion, though the number of billionaires fell to just 1
[00:03:30.300]810. Looks like I just missed the list again. It was the ye
[00:03:35.730]r Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa. And while the em
[00:03:39.270]loyees who make up our first group of honored employees ma
[00:03:42.180]not have reached canonical status yet, we greatly value th
[00:03:45.900]ir five years of service to the campus, and wish them ma
[00:03:48.780]y, many more.
[00:03:56.520]In 2011, one of the most common questions was “could it have
[00:04:00.360]been ten years already?” In many respects, the events of
[00:04:04.380]that fateful day in September a decade earlier seemed like
[00:04:08.130]just a blink of an eye in the past. Tenth year anniversary
[00:04:11.880]tributes were common in September of that year, but 2011 had
[00:04:15.810]plenty of other newsworthy items of its own. It was a year
[00:04:19.590]of movers and shakers. Game of Thrones moved into HBO’s
[00:04:23.820]weekend line-up. Oprah Winfrey moved out of her TV time slot
[00:04:28.320]after 25 years. The premiere of the eighth and final film of
[00:04:32.670]the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly
[00:04:35.730]Hallows Part 2, shook up box office numbers. In many parts
[00:04:41.460]of the world, the moving slowed down or stopped altogether
[00:04:45.120]to take in the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate
[00:04:47.820]Middleton on April 29. There was a corporate shake-up at
[00:04:51.720]Apple, when founder Steve Jobs resigned as CEO. While in
[00:04:55.800]Japan, the shaking was caused by an earthquake that measured
[00:04:59.130]nine on the Richter scale and led to a cataclysmic tsunami.
[00:05:04.560]In the music world, there were movers and shakers as well
[00:05:07.140]that year. X Factor darlings One Direction released their
[00:05:10.740]debut album “Up All Night” to fan acclaim. Adele released
[00:05:15.000]“21” – her second studio album – it would win multiple
[00:05:18.180]awards in the months afterward. Grammy award winners in
[00:05:21.540]February of 2011 included Lady Gaga, Usher, Esperanza
[00:05:26.010]Spalding and Jeff Beck, while the major Country Music Awards
[00:05:29.820]in November went to Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Blake
[00:05:33.420]Shelton. Some of the political shake-ups that year were
[00:05:37.590]uite dramatic. Fidel Castro left the Communist Party of
[00:05:41.490]uba’s central committee after a 45-year run. Libya’s
[00:05:45.420]uammar Gaddafi was killed in October, while US Seal Team
[00:05:49.230]embers killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on his compound
[00:05:52.890]n May. And North Korea’s Kim Jong-il died of a suspected
[00:05:57.150]eart attack in December. It was the year we said goodbye t
[00:06:01.200]actress Elizabeth Taylor, actors Cliff Robertson and H
[00:06:04.500]rry Morgan, golfer Seve Ballesteros, former First Lady B
[00:06:08.580]tty Ford, singer Amy Winehouse, Apple’s founder Steve J
[00:06:12.630]bs, and boxer Joe Frazier. In 2011, the world reached s
[00:06:18.120]ven billion inhabitants. And the University of N
[00:06:21.150]braska-Lincoln was blessed that several of those i
[00:06:23.580]habitants came to work here that year. We are happy to h
[00:06:26.700]nor them as our next group of celebrated colleagues and t
[00:06:29.730]ank them for their ten years of collective service to the c
[00:06:32.400]mpus.
[00:06:44.010]Next, we wander back to 2006 - a year dominated by changes
[00:06:49.020]on the international scene. In Iraq, deposed president
[00:06:52.740]Saddam Hussein was tried, convicted and sentenced to death
[00:06:55.920]by hanging, a sentence carried out at the very end of the
[00:06:58.860]year. The Nathula Pass, between India and China, sealed
[00:07:03.060]during the Sino-Indian War, reopened for trade after 44
[00:07:06.870]years. The United Nations welcomed a new member – The
[00:07:10.590]Republic of Montenegro. Brazil celebrated its first
[00:07:14.220]astronaut to enter space – Marcos Pontes. And North Korea
[00:07:18.270]conducted its first nuclear test, when, as humorist Lewis
[00:07:21.630]Black described it, a group of North Koreans picked up a
[00:07:24.660]missile, ran to the border and threw it over. Locally,
[00:07:28.710]things were more tranquil. Nebraska recorded a much lower
[00:07:32.430]number of tornadoes in 2006 – only 22 compared with an
[00:07:36.300]average of 50 in each of the previous 30 years. Probably the
[00:07:40.260]biggest wind to hit town that year was Ty Pennington and the
[00:07:43.140]gang from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition who worked their
[00:07:46.710]magic on a house in Lincoln. And it must have seemed magical
[00:07:50.400]to the eight lucky Lincolnites who divided up the largest
[00:07:52.980]U.S. lottery jackpot in history - $124.1 million dollars –
[00:07:58.230]in February of that year. On campus, there was a lot of
[00:08:02.520]ood news in 2006. UNL made the US News & World Report
[00:08:06.960]istings of the 50 best public national universities in
[00:08:09.930]merica for the third straight year. Key indicators of
[00:08:13.320]tudent success were up: retention, graduation rate, and the
[00:08:17.010]verall quality of incoming students according to their ACT
[00:08:20.310]cores. And as for scores of that other variety, the Husker
[00:08:24.450]ootball team, coached by Bill Callahan, finished the season
[00:08:27.570]ith a 9 and 5 record, including the Big XII North Division
[00:08:31.290]hampionship. It was the year we lost a pair of Fords -
[00:08:35.730]ormer President Gerald, and actor Glenn both passed away.
[00:08:40.230]e also lost the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, fashion
[00:08:43.890]esigner Oleg Cassini, Kirby Puckett, who loved to play
[00:08:47.250]aseball, and Curt Gowdy, who loved to call the play of many
[00:08:50.670]baseball game, Robert Altman, who directed legendary
[00:08:54.090]ilms, and Bo Schembechler, who directed legendary football
[00:08:57.870]eams at Michigan. We said goodbye to the Godfather of the
[00:09:01.320]egro Leagues, Buck O’Neill, and to the Godfather of Soul,
[00:09:04.950]ames Brown. At the box office, the big winner of 2006 was
[00:09:09.780]irates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest though the big
[00:09:13.350]inner in the Academy Awards was the Martin Scorsese film
[00:09:16.590]he Departed which picked up several of the major awards.
[00:09:20.790]ortunately for us, the theme for our next group of honored
[00:09:23.430]mployees in that year was not “the departed” but rather,
[00:09:26.520]the arrivals” and we recognize our colleagues who arrived
[00:09:30.240]t UNL in 2006 to begin their 15 years of service to the
[00:09:34.620]niversity.
[00:09:41.730]2001 was a year of decided highs and lows. It contained a
[00:09:46.890]date that will forever be remembered simply as 9-11. A date
[00:09:51.330]that has become one of those “what were you doing that
[00:09:53.790]morning?” milestones for so many of us. The year had begun
[00:09:57.810]n a more hopeful note. With newly elected president George
[00:10:01.140]. Bush’s inauguration in January, the new millennium seemed
[00:10:05.190]o appear bright. The Baltimore Ravens were Super Bowl c
[00:10:08.790]amps. A gallon of unleaded gas would have cost you $1.46 – a
[00:10:13.590]the good old days – but if that was too expensive, N
[00:10:16.890]ntendo gave us another reason to stay home – the Game Cube w
[00:10:20.670]s introduced in North America. In January, the free c
[00:10:24.540]ntent on-line encyclopedia called “Wikipedia” made its d
[00:10:28.020]but, and nobody would ever be sure of the validity of i
[00:10:30.780]formation again. Here on the UNL campus, we had a new Ch
[00:10:34.590]ncellor, Harvey Perlman. Almost immediately upon taking of
[00:10:38.130]ice, one of his first tasks was to contemplate a round of bu
[00:10:41.040]get cuts. Welcome to the job, Chancellor... The campus Hea
[00:10:45.360]th Center began offering flu vaccine that year. Ad
[00:10:48.840]ncements were announced to add convenience and options for
[00:10:51.990]the growing number of distance learners, and a Native Ame
[00:10:54.780]ican memorial was dedicated. Besides the horrific loss of
[00:10:59.520]ife in New York and at the Pentagon on 9/11, 2001 was als
[00:11:04.080]the year we lost famed race car driver Dale Earnhardt, kil
[00:11:07.590]ed in the final lap of the Daytona 500. We also said goo
[00:11:11.760]bye to musicians Isaac Stern, George Harrison and Chet Atk
[00:11:15.450]ns, the Washington Post’s Katharine Graham, and the pap
[00:11:18.990]r’s cartoonist Herblock, comedienne Imogene Coca, cow
[00:11:23.370]irl Dale Evans, and Michel Navratil, who died at age 92 – t
[00:11:27.450]e last male survivor of the sinking of The Titanic. I
[00:11:32.580]ril, a U.S. Navy spy plane on a surveillance mission over
[00:11:36.090]the South China Sea collided with a Chinese fighter plan
[00:11:39.540]and was forced to make an emergency landing. The plan
[00:11:43.050]’s crew, headed by its pilot - UNL grad Shane Osborne - were
[00:11:47.430]held for eleven days before being released unharmed, prov
[00:11:51.150]ng real life could deliver more drama than even the most
[00:11:53.850]popular movies. Still, the movies tried. Gladiator won five
[00:11:58.980]Oscars that year, while Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Ston
[00:12:02.190]took in an unprecedented $93.5 million in its first week
[00:12:06.720]nd. The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first installment of P
[00:12:10.470]ter Jackson’s eagerly awaited version of The Lord Of The
[00:12:13.290]ings trilogy, opened to great reviews. Also opening to great
[00:12:18.180]reviews that year was our next group of honored emplo
[00:12:20.700]ees, whom we celebrate today for their 20 years of servi
[00:12:24.150]e to the university.
[00:12:30.920]In 1996 there was a new Chancellor at the University of
[00:12:34.100]Nebraska-Lincoln - James Moeser. Melvin Jones began work as
[00:12:38.480]the University’s new Vice-Chancellor of Business and
[00:12:40.940]Finance. It was a year in which water would figure
[00:12:44.060]prominently - a burst pipe flooded the Northeast YMCA...the
[00:12:48.470]original Broyhill Fountain north of the city union was
[00:12:51.380]removed to make way for building expansion...and Lincoln got
[00:12:54.650]its first permanent public ice skating rink - called “The
[00:12:57.920]Ice Box.” It was an equally big year for fire - which gutted
[00:13:02.180]the University president’s residence, while fireworks
[00:13:05.660]exploded in Love Library. And UNL’s ban on firearms on
[00:13:10.130]campus was extended to faculty and staff to the dismay of
[00:13:13.880]faculty members who apparently felt a prominently displayed
[00:13:17.300]rifle rack reduced the number of grade appeals. It was also
[00:13:21.350]a big year in the arts on campus. Torn Notebook by Claes
[00:13:24.860]Oldenburg was unveiled near 12th & “Q” Streets, joining 30
[00:13:28.730]other works in the Sheldon Sculpture Garden, and the Sheldon
[00:13:32.030]also became the first Nebraska art museum with its own World
[00:13:35.180]Wide Web site. Speaking of technology, 1996 was the first
[00:13:40.280]full year of operation for NRoll, the dial-up registration
[00:13:43.940]system that allowed students to hear “I’m sorry, that class
[00:13:47.390]is closed” from the comfort of their own homes. Elsewhere on
[00:13:51.410]campus, there was no room in the dorms, and students were
[00:13:54.170]forced to sleep in the lounges. Fortunately, there was
[00:13:57.530]room on campus for our next batch of honored employees who
[00:14:00.620]came to work here that year and are recognized for 25 years
[00:14:04.220]of service to the university.
[00:14:12.060]1991 - some say it was the beginning of the last decade of
[00:14:16.140]the 20th century. Some said that 1990 had been. Most of us
[00:14:20.460]didn’t care. For 1,400 Nebraska reserves and guardsmen,
[00:14:24.900]991 meant active duty in Operation Desert Storm. While they
[00:14:29.700]ere headed for the desert, here at home the worst ice storm
[00:14:32.790]n 30 years left many without power for days. In the
[00:14:36.810]iobrara River Valley, two jawbones of prehistoric
[00:14:39.960]lephant-like creatures, dating back over 10-million years,
[00:14:43.350]ere discovered, perhaps the earliest known evidence of the
[00:14:46.260]ascot of the Republican Party. On the Democratic side of
[00:14:49.800]he aisle, jaw-boning of an entirely different nature took
[00:14:52.440]lace as the nation talked about Nebraska Senator Bob
[00:14:55.740]erry’s announcement of his bid to be president. On ca
[00:14:59.490]pus, the University had a new chancellor - Graham Sp
[00:15:01.980]nier. Graduate student enrollment was up 9 percent. Love Li
[00:15:06.390]rary added a rare Shakespeare folio, published in 1623, to
[00:15:10.860]its 2.5 million volumes, while outside the Library, Mi
[00:15:15.240]hael Heiser’s “Prismatic Flake” was installed as the la
[00:15:18.690]est addition to the campus sculpture collection. In news th
[00:15:22.650]t will no doubt seem hard to believe, the campus was hit by
[00:15:25.530]budget cuts while students protested parking conditions, an
[00:15:29.280]tuition increased to help support faculty salaries. It wa
[00:15:33.510]also the year the University system expanded with the ad
[00:15:36.600]ition of the former Kearney State College as the new U-
[00:15:39.540]-K. And parking meter rates went from 10-cents to a qu
[00:15:43.920]rter, an increase no doubt noticed by some of the un
[00:15:47.010]versity’s first-year employees, who were waiting for that “s
[00:15:50.190]ot by the door.” Most of them are probably still waiting, so
[00:15:54.210]while they wait, we’ll recognize them for their 30 years of
[00:15:57.150]service to the university.
[00:16:05.220]1986 was a year of changing faces. Nebraska had one of the
[00:16:10.110]country’s first gubernatorial election campaigns featuring
[00:16:13.200]two women, as Kay Orr defeated former Lincoln mayor Helen
[00:16:16.890]Boosalis. The old Burlington Northern Passenger depot got a
[00:16:21.090]face-lift thanks to a 700-thousand dollar federal grant.
[00:16:25.380]Construction was big on campus that year as well - The
[00:16:28.350]Culture Center was refurbished, construction began on the
[00:16:31.710]Lied Center, Neihardt Hall was renovated, and Morrill Hall
[00:16:35.520]Director Hugh Genoways was lobbying for the same for that
[00:16:38.700]building. It was also a big year for computing - the Regents
[00:16:43.440]approved creation of The Center For Advanced Land Management
[00:16:46.530]Information Technologies, and a 1-million dollar grant from
[00:16:50.250]the National Science Foundation allowed UNL to link with
[00:16:53.700]computers from seven other midwestern universities in a
[00:16:56.700]system called MIDNET - useful for research, scholarship,
[00:17:01.230]communications, and later, Napster. UNL police issued
[00:17:06.360]16,000 parking tickets, and by the end of the year that
[00:17:09.930]student still hadn’t paid them all. Fortunately, there was
[00:17:13.410]money to pay all of the fine folks who started their
[00:17:15.840]university careers in 1986. We recognize them for dedicating
[00:17:20.550]35 years to UNL.
[00:17:27.630]1981 saw a new Chancellor at the University as Martin
[00:17:31.770]Massengale became the 16th person to head the campus in that
[00:17:35.040]capacity. Love Library expanded its capacity into new North
[00:17:39.720]basement spaces. And the university’s land holdings expanded
[00:17:43.620]to the tune of 12-thousand acres thanks to a generous
[00:17:46.560]donation from Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gudmundsen. A football
[00:17:51.150]ticket shortage left 547 students without seats, though they
[00:17:55.620]could have watched the Huskers play Iowa State on Nebraska
[00:17:58.410]ETV - that broadcast pleased so many grateful fans that they
[00:18:02.670]contributed over 10-thousand dollars as a thank you. It wa
[00:18:06.570]the last year of the old switchboards for Lincoln Te
[00:18:09.330]ephone Company operators, the first year Nebraska had a fi
[00:18:12.930]m listed on the American Stock Exchange, the year Te
[00:18:16.560]chers College merged its elementary and secondary ed
[00:18:19.500]cation departments, and the year the UNL Alumni House was de
[00:18:23.460]olished to make room for a new gathering place for ho
[00:18:26.520]esick alums - to become known as the Wick Center. The st
[00:18:30.540]te legislature was stewing over who should control future ur
[00:18:33.600]nium mines in Nebraska, while at the University of Ne
[00:18:36.870]raska, a gold mine of new employees began what would be
[00:18:40.320]ome 40-year careers on this campus.
[00:18:49.230]In 1976, the University had a new Chancellor - do we detect
[00:18:53.850]pattern here? That year it was Roy Young. D. B. Varner step
[00:18:58.170]ed down as President of the University system. As always, t
[00:19:01.620]ere was a lot of building and construction going on around
[00:19:04.980]campus. An eight-million dollar Animal Health Center. Th
[00:19:08.430]ground around the Love North addition was dedicated as t
[00:19:11.790]e Donaldson Eright and Gather Gardens, reflecting t
[00:19:14.580]e native Nebraska landscape. The Coliseum got a $15,000 fa
[00:19:19.800]elift, and the new UNL Sports Complex was dedicated and
[00:19:23.400]named for UNL Athletic Director Bob Devaney. In Morril Hal
[00:19:27.630], a new dinosaur gallery opened, while on East Campus, const
[00:19:31.080]uction started on a new union building, and the William E. B
[00:19:34.470]rkley Center was dedicated. It was a big year for mone
[00:19:38.820]. The two-dollar bill was released with Thomas Jefferson’
[00:19:42.030]face on it, though you couldn’t use it to pay the newly
[00:19:44.730]increased parking meter rates - it would now cost you a dime
[00:19:48.420]to park - or two hours for a quarter - when you could fin
[00:19:51.540]a meter. But then, you could always park on one of the
[00:19:54.300]ewly paved university parking lots, if you wanted to fork o
[00:19:57.960]er the money for a permit - all of $25 dollars. Jack Ford,
[00:20:03.300]he President’s son, came to the campus for a visit. And a g
[00:20:06.810]oup of new employees came to the campus, and stayed. And
[00:20:11.340]today we thank them for 45
[00:20:19.380]1971 was a year of unrest and protest in the country and
[00:20:23.970]ere on campus as well. Students marched to the State
[00:20:27.300]apitol to protest several issues. Another march from ca
[00:20:30.720]pus down 13th street was used to denounce the Indochina wa
[00:20:34.440]. University leadership again changed hands when Joseph So
[00:20:38.790]nik stepped down as president of the Lincoln campus. It
[00:20:42.600]was the year Bob Hope stopped by at half-time of a N
[00:20:45.210]braska football game. And President Nixon congratulated t
[00:20:48.810]e National Champion football team at the Coliseum. It was t
[00:20:53.070]e year the NU State Museum turned 100, still just a baby co
[00:20:57.480]pared to some of the elephants on display. Campus en
[00:21:00.810]ollment edged up past the 20-thousand mark while dorm rate
[00:21:04.740]edged up to $940 a year. And cigarette taxes edged up fro
[00:21:09.540]8 to 13 cents to help fund new athletic facilities. Yet
[00:21:14.820]n the midst of all this uncertainty and upheaval, a
[00:21:17.850]edicated group of new employees began a career here that
[00:21:21.420]ould now span five decades, and we are all so much the
[00:21:25.260]better for it. We proudly salute 50-year employees Jim Lewis
[00:21:29.820]from Mathematics, Richard Schmidt from Nutrition and Health
[00:21:33.060]Sciences and Richard Wahl from F-M-and-P Landscape Servi
[00:21:37.680]es with our thanks for their dedication and a half-century
[00:21:40.920]of service to the university!
[00:21:47.160]In 1966 over 2,000 Nebraskans were called up by local draft
[00:21:51.486]boards to serve in Vietnam. At the same time, University
[00:21:55.597]enrollment jumped to 17,051. Was there a correlation? You be
[00:21:59.996]the judge. Frank Morrison was the state’s new governor that
[00:22:04.394]year, and Congress approved funds to begin construction of a
[00:22:08.793]new $15-million dollar Federal Courthouse at 15th & “O”
[00:22:12.832]Streets. The completion of the Omaha-to-North-Platte link of
[00:22:17.230]Interstate 80 meant the Americans could drive a four-lane
[00:22:21.413]highway from the Atlantic Coast to western Nebraska.
[00:22:25.235]Apparently after that, they were on their own. Other news
[00:22:29.490]was not as positive. Lincoln lost its first policeman in 36
[00:22:33.816]years killed in the line of duty. A deadly late March
[00:22:37.710]blizzard claimed at least 21 lives in the state, and a
[00:22:41.677]Braniff jet liner crashed near Falls City killing all 42
[00:22:45.787]aboard. On campus, students could begin taking courses
[00:22:49.897]Pass-Fail. Work started on the Dental College and a new
[00:22:53.936]women’s P.E. building. The music building on city campus was
[00:22:58.335]completed, and C.Y. Thompson Library on east campus was
[00:23:02.373]dedicated. Money problems brought on by an unexpected jump
[00:23:06.700]in enrollment brought threats of a tuition hike from the
[00:23:10.810]Administration, while at the same time a university staff
[00:23:14.993]influx caused paycheck problems. Given all that stress, it
[00:23:19.247]was probably good timing for the opening of the Bryan
[00:23:23.141]Memorial Hospital Open Heart Surgery Center. Despite those
[00:23:27.468]paycheck problems, the big headline of that year, of course,
[00:23:31.867]was the arrival of a dedicated group of new University
[00:23:35.833]employees, and we are pleased to recognize one of them today
[00:23:40.232]– James Van Etten from Plant Pathology. Congratulations,
[00:23:44.342]Jim, as a 55-year employee!
[00:23:46.290]60 years ago, the pace of life was getting faster. You could
[00:23:50.445]now drive at 65 on the Interstate, while state officials
[00:23:54.329]announced an $87.6-million dollar road construction program.
[00:23:58.484]The $2-million dollar Nebraska Center for Continuing
[00:24:02.095]Education on east campus was completed and dedicated, while
[00:24:06.183]on city campus, construction was just getting under way for
[00:24:10.271]the new $2.4-million dollar Sheldon Art Gallery. University
[00:24:14.426]enrollment was almost at the 12-thousand mark that year, and
[00:24:18.582]Chancellor Clifford Hardin announced plans for a new
[00:24:22.193]$4-million-dollar, 13-story dorm to help house the growing
[00:24:26.213]number of students. Fire damaged Avery Hall and totally
[00:24:30.028]destroyed the Turnpike Ballroom across town. And 53
[00:24:33.639]teachers attending the University of Nebraska Language
[00:24:37.386]Institute would take part in a bit of history - the
[00:24:40.928]university’s first closed-circuit TV class would make TV
[00:24:44.812]stars of classroom teachers. But all around the campus,
[00:24:48.695]stars in a variety of departments began working that year at
[00:24:52.851]the university. And at least one of those stars would shine
[00:24:56.938]for 60 years. We are delighted to pay tribute to him today
[00:25:01.026]– my friend and mentor, Ronald E. Hull of University
[00:25:04.637]Television. Congratulations on 60 years of service, Ron, and
[00:25:08.793]thanks!
[00:25:09.270]Congratulations to everyone celebrating an employment
[00:25:12.743]anniversary this year, and thank you for your service to
[00:25:16.410]Nebraska. Celebrating my own 35th year anniversary at UNL,
[00:25:20.205]I’m Rick Alloway.

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