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John D. Haskell was the first full time UMBC employee. He was responsible for starting the Library, although Haskell's initial days at the university were spent not at UMBC but at College Park where he was oriented into the policies and procedures of…

After a long process, with many different opinions expressed, the Board of Regents finally approved plans to build a University of Maryland branch on a 425 acre tract of mostly State-owned land near Catonsville in Baltimore County. An article in The…

During the early planning stages for the expansion of the University of Maryland, one possible location for the new campus was the Inner Harbor of Baltimore City. Consideration of the site went as far as making a Diagrammatic Scheme as a Proposal for…

Once UMBC was open and operating, the firms of RTKL, Inc. (Architects and Planners), Rummel, Klepper, and Kahl (Site Engineers), and Egli and Gompf, Inc. (Mechanical and Electrical engineers) were asked to create a Master Plan for use as a record of…

The first decade of UMBC’s operation saw periodic campus discomforts caused by controversial subjects, and nude photographs published in the fall 1968 issue of Dialogue, the UMBC literary magazine, was one such occasion. Ten photographs of nude…

The first Spring Week (an early version of Quadmania) took place April 22- 29, 1967, and began with a rousing Saturday evening performance by the King of Soul," Otis Redding (1941-1967). The performance was for a semi-formal dance in Gym 1 and was…

Published on the opening day of UMBC, September 19, 1966, was the first issue of UMBC News which carried the bold headline DR. KUHN GREETS STUDENTS.” Dr. Kuhn was very student oriented, and declared in the front page article: We welcome the new…

Once the Catonsville site was selected for the expansion of the University of Maryland, Dr. Kuhn quickly began working on specifications for the new campus. He visited universities across the country to get ideas for the construction of both…

The first decade of UMBC’s operation saw periodic campus discomforts caused by controversial subjects, and nude photographs published in the fall 1968 issue of Dialogue, the UMBC literary magazine, was one such occasion. Ten photographs of nude…

Making the new campus one devoted to research was on Kuhn’s mind as he began thinking about a campus Master Plan.” Extensiveness of Research—Kinds of research…and Balance of Govt. sup[port] vs commercial [support]” and Short term vs long term…