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John D. Haskell, Librarian, Laminated I.D. Card
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…
Land Acquisition from the Stabler Family
Not all of the land on which the new campus was going to be built was already owned by the state. One parcel was owned by the Stabler Family, 13 acres along Walker Avenue approximately where the Library & Gallery is now situated. The State acquired…
Master Plan for the University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
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…
Men's Lacrosse and Cheerleaders Contact Sheet, Photograph, Spring 1969. UARC Photos 07-01-1744, F older 38, Sheet 7
These photographs, taken by a student photographer for The Retriever, are from a 14-6 win for the men's lacrosse team against the Loyola Greyhounds B" team, April 1, 1969.
Men's Lacrosse Team, 1969
Lead by Jeff Hahn who scored 32 goals that season, the most among all lacrosse players in the state that year, the 1969 UMBC men's lacrosse team was victorious against rivals Loyola University of Maryland and Western Maryland College. Outstanding…
Otis Redding by William Morganstern. Skipjack (1967), page 57.
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…
Proposals for Achieving Significant Integration of Minority Groups at UMBC
In response to a 1969 University of Maryland report on integration, Dr. Kuhn appointed a committee chaired by English professor Philip J. Klukoff to draft a report making specific recommendations for UMBC to attract more minority students. The report…
Spring Grove Site for U of MD Campus, The Sunpapers
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…
Statement Concerning the University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus Student Publication Dialogue by Dr. Albin O. Kuhn, Chancellor
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…
Student Unrest Provisions Selected Sections of Federal Law, 1969
National concern for student demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s prompted Congress to pass laws that would penalize students who accepted federal scholarship or loan money and got arrested for civil disobedience. Selected sections of Public Law…