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Chronological History of UTEP Buildings' Construction And/Or Name Changes Willie Quinn University of Texas at El Paso, Qwilliamq@Aol.Com University of Texas at El Paso DigitalCommons@UTEP Additional Items UTEP History Resources 7-2015 Chronological History of UTEP Buildings' Construction and/or Name Changes Willie Quinn University of Texas at El Paso, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/utep_add_items Recommended Citation Quinn, Willie, "Chronological History of UTEP Buildings' Construction and/or Name Changes" (2015). Additional Items. 3. http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/utep_add_items/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the UTEP History Resources at DigitalCommons@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Additional Items by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UTEP. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Texas State Senate Bill 183 signed by Gov. Colquitt on April 16, 1913 creating "a state school of miners [sic] and metallurgy." Dept. Name Changes Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy of Mines and College of Mines and Metallurgy College of Mines and Metallurgy College of Mines and Metallurgy College of Mines and Metallurgy Texas Western College Texas Western College The University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso for the First Catalogue also refers to the "State School of Mines and Metallurgy" "Texas School of Mines" Metallurgy The UT Board of Regents upgraded the School, at least in name. (There is no official reference to the Texas College of Mines or TCM) First Alumni Fall Enrollment Osher Lifelong UTEP Graduate Basketball CoachNew UTEP 2 UTEP Coeds Win 35th Anniv. "Beginning" of "UTEP" College or (1914-15) First Degrees (3) First Coeds Enroll name in School Newspaper of The UT UTEP "Schools" Academy Record 18,542 Learning Inst. Danny Olivas' Don Haskins Dies Magazine Miss Texas USA and Peace Corps Grand Opening Football Coach Land Transfer UT Regents appr. 04/28/1914 Awarded in May 1916 04/30 - 05/21/1914- (Per Fugate pp. 8-9) University (UT Board of Regents Registration Opens Fire Destroyed New Campus First Liberal Arts Degree Renamed "Colleges" Established Graduate School (Formerly CLL) 1st Space Flight (Repl. NOVA) Miss New Mexico USA 1st Grad.TWC Health Sciences Sean Kugler Hired formally accepts the on Sept. 23, 1914 and Main Building on Building Construction (Nov.-Dec. 1917) (June 9, 1919) (1920-21 Catalog) Awarded June 1932 (June 1, 1949) (March 13, 1967) (Civil Engr.) Record 3,457 Building - and - land and buildings Classes Begin First Issue of October 29, 1916 Began June 1917 New Buildings Occupied APO Frat. Formed (Ref. 2, p. 41) Sun Bowl Game Master of Arts Campus Radio Texas Western Press TWC Rifle Team TWC First First Hispanic 50th Anniversary (Ref. 1, p. 119) Josephine Last UT College Heritage UTEP First Gold Nuggets Miners Football First Woman Second First UTEP Celebrates Chihuahuan UTEP School of Nursing Dr. Natalicio Heritage Comm. 30th Anniv. UTEP Celebrates 100th Anniversary Significant April 28, 1914) on Sept. 28, 1914 The Prospector (Formal Opening - April) (First Social Frat.) Women's Association El Paso Junior College First Chief Administrative Played in Degree Approved WTCM First Masters No "Flowsheet" 35th Anniversary KVOF-FM Established in 1952 Wins National Title Texas School to Woman Engr. 20th Anniversary Peace Corps Group Enrollment Golden First NCAA Last Mining Enrollment Clardy Fox "Flowsheet" First Doctoral UTEP Men's Track & Field Team of Nursing First Doctoral Commission Track & Field and Awarded by Team Beats BYU UTEP President and Doctoral Prog. Carl Hertzog Season of Lights Heritage House NSF Designated UTEP 100th Commencement Desert Celebrates Becomes Independent Celebrates Fall Enrollment The 100,000th Opening Day (Sept. 3, 1908) Original Campus Located in the Former El Paso Military Institute Buildings New and Current Campus Located 1-1/2 miles North of Downtown El Paso of the College Organized Closed - Merged w/Mines Homecoming Officer Changed from Kidd Field Enrollment Established Degrees (3) Published Due Enrollment Radio WTCM of the College First FM Alligator in Schellenger Research Desegregate Student Enrolled of "El Burro" Graduated TWC over 5,000 Jubilee "NOVA" Basketball Engineer Grad. over 10,000 Left $3.1 Million Published Program Approved Streaker and Cross-Country Team Incorporated Degree Awarded Established Cross-Country Teams Individual (BYU was Defending 50th Anniversary Approved Award for Created Opened a Model Institution Don Haskins Gardens Woman's Basketball Football Coach 90th Anniversary 20th Anniversary Exceeds 21,000 Degree was Presentation No. 183 signed Fall (2014) for Registration College Dates in Northeast El Paso near Fort Bliss (now Fort Bliss at Chaffee & Pleasonton Rds.) (Near the corner of what is now Hawthorne and Kerbey Aves.) Dean to President (First Time) over 1,000 Civilian Pilot Training (Master of Arts) to WW II over 2,000 Becomes KVOF and Army ROTC in El Paso Dr. Quinn's Labs Established at Undergraduate Magazine (First in nation) Celebrated Published Champions (August 1966) to UTEP Civil Engr. Moves (Geological Sciences) Makes TV News Wins NCAA Championship into UTEP (Geological Sciences) Repeat as NCAA Champs Colleges NCAA Champions) Diamond Jubilee Begins (Electrical Engr.) Excellence in for Excellence Inducted Basketball Dedicated Coach Keitha Adams Mike Price of UT Regents TWC's as President 35th Anniversary Basketball Coach awarded in New Ceremonial by Governor Enrollment at new School (Approx. 1-1/4 miles south of Fred Wilson and 1 mile east of Patriot Freeway) First "M'" Painted on Mt. (CPT) Established Established Office Level (Fall 1965) (3/13/66) to "Hacienda Tech" Book Design Hall of Fame Hired by UTEP Hired by UTEP Approval "Glory Road" 1966 Basketball "Schools" to "Colleges" Tim Floyd Hired in May 2011 Mace Regalia April 16,1913 23,079 Sept. 23,1914 Franklin (11/21/23) EP Internat'l Airport Movie Premiere Team Inducted Holocaust Museum Spur 601 Army Air t t Significant Mills Bldg. Const. Pancho Villa El Paso High Opens Scenic Drive E.P. Junior College First Test V-2 Rocket Bataan Memor. New Fort Bliss Trans-Mountain Sunland Park Voters Approve First U.S. Sun Bowl Chamizal Lee Treviño Trans-Mountain El Paso Chamizal Mission Heritage New City Hall New Baseball Andy and Sid First Woman Cohen Stadium El Paso and Insights Science Tigua Indians Expands Terminal $141 M Bonds Tigua's Western Ref. Diablos Baseball (on 01/13/06) Hall of Fame Relocated Sun Bowl Renamed Completed Defense Leaves Political "Chihuahuas" Hwy Spur 1966 Dates in Raids Columbus Opens Opens in EPHS Loretto Academy Jack Dempsey Chas. Lindbergh First El Paso Hilton Hotel Scenic Drive Sun Bowl Game State of Texas' Christ Statue B-24 Bomber Fort Bliss Hits Juarez Centennial Trainway ASARCO Builds Providence El Paso County EPNG Becomes US Army Highway is Race Track Sun Bowl Skyjacking Dedicated National Memor. Wins U.S. Open Loop 375 Community National Memor. Association Dedicated Insights Science Plans to W.R. Weaver Mexico's The New Westin Stadium Bonds Cohen, EP's Mayor of (Baseball) New Mexico Tigua's Begin Museum Opens Open "Speaking and Reopens History Museum "Speaking Rock" Purchased by Team Sold and (on 09/6-8/07) F.B.I. Raids Hyundai Sun Bowl thru Ft. Bliss Ft. Bliss and Corruption AAA Baseball Team Completed to UTEP El Paso History and Gen. Pershing Pancho Villa Attacks Opens Fights in Juarez Spirit of St. Louis Municipal Airport (now Plaza) Paved Played at 100th Anniversary Completed on Crashes into Army AA and of Fort Bliss Dedicated World's Tallest Mem. Hospital Historical Soc. Building Air Defense Center Proposed to Opens Bond Issue in El Paso Authorized Completed College Opens Dedicated Founded Museum Opens Renovate the Scope Company Maquiladora Paso del Norte Approved Baseball Greats, El Paso Dedicated Agree to Water Study of New Building Rock" Casino El Paso Inc. El Paso Herald- at Library Casino Closed Chevron/Texaco Leaves El Paso - Court House Drug Cartels ASARCO 1st Div.Arrives City Council Approve Opera Bhutan Leads Troops into Mexico Juarez for 3rd Time Wm. Beaumont Lands in El Paso Fred Wilson & RR Drive Opens El Paso High Mt. Cristo Rey Mt. Franklin Guided Missile Ctr. 8/21/2050 Smokestack Opens Formed Opens TX Hwy. Comm. (Became Mission in Mills Bldg. Cortez Bldg. Ends Business Initiated Hotel Opens Both Die Settlement Casino Gambling Newspaper Begins Post Newspaper ASARCO -EP Name "Diablos" stays in EP Hilton Garden US - MX Violence Erupts Closes Permanently $50 Million Ballpark Performed in EP (9/8/28) Inn Opens - UTEP Border Fence (Razed City Hall & Insights- Hosp. Opens Trail in 1985) Ends Publication Suspends Opns. New Team now Class AA Juarez, MX First Toll Road without voter approval.) World War I Begins US Enters WW I WW I Ends Charleston Thomas Edison Amelia Earhardt Prohibition Amelia Earhardt Battle of Japan Bombs First V-1 V-E Day US Drops Atomic Chuck Yeager Berlin Korean War First Color TV Polio Vaccine McCarthy Roger Bannister USSR Orbits Hula Hoops Peace Corps Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Pres. Kennedy Civil Rights US Troops First Martin Luther Pres. Nixon Microsoft Mount St. Helens US Navy Downs Exxon Valdez Hubble Telescope Official End of Russian English Channel O. J. Simpson Princess Diana World World Trade U. S. Invades Saddam Hussein Indian Ocean George W. Bush Apple's iPhone Smithsonian U.S. Elects Japan Earthquake Boston Marathon US & UK Troops Significant Lusitania Einstein First Pulitzer Gen. Pershing's Prohibition Begins Pancho Villa First World Pancho Villa Dance Chrysler Flapper Dresses Lindbergh Flies Solo St. Valentine's Died First Woman to Ends in US Pretty Boy Floyd, Spanish Civil Vanishes World War II Britain Wages Pearl Harbor Battle of Hits London Victory in Bombs on Japan Breaks Sound Airlift X-1 Plane Begins Broadcasts Created Hearings Breaks AFL and CIO Suez Crisis Sputnik I Become Popular Founded Invasion Crisis Assassinated Act of 1964 to Vietnam Super Bowl King, Jr.
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