Sharing the Past, Building the Future: UMBC at 50

Image: Retriever Fever Pennant — Pennant for Homecoming 2014, Retriever Fever. Institutional Advancement records, Collection 97.

Image: Laminated I.D. Card — John D. Haskell, Librarian, Laminated I.D. Card

Image: Professor Michael Summers with Chemistry students and mass spectrometer — Professor Michael Summers with Chemistry students and mass spectrometer
Bill Denison, 1997

Image: Albin O. Kuhn, Homer Schamp, and Guy Chisholm On-Site — Albin O. Kuhn, Homer Schamp, and Guy Chisholm On-Site

Public Programs

3:30 p.m.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Exhibition Tour: Chief Curator Tom Beck & Archivist Lindsey Loeper

All of the forces that contributed to making UMBC-- from emerging as a need triggered by the post-World War II baby boom to becoming a higher education ideal conceptualized by Chancellor Albin O. Kuhn-- converged on September 19, 1966 with the commencement of the first classes.

This exhibition tells some of the many stories of the university's exciting beginning and continuing development through items selected from UMBC's University Archives including photographs, documents, objects, books and ephemera.

Online Exhibition

http://bit.ly/umbc50exhibit