1950-1959
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1950
The Language Arts-Mathematics (Drieser Hall) and the Administration Building are completed. Cost of Administration Building was $663600. Cost of Language Arts and Mathematics Building was $893,726. Old Main (ISNS Building) and the North Hall annex are razed to create the campus quad
Parsons Hall addition completed. Cost was $458,611.
The Madrigal Singers were organized
ISTC joins the Indiana Collegiate Conference.
ISTC basketball team wins the NAIB National Basketball Championship in Kansas City
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1951
Basketball Coach John Longfellow and seven ISTC players from the nucleus of the United States team which won the Pan-American Olympic games in Argentina
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1952
Fall, ISTC Central Indiana Branch at Danville, IN opened. The Danville Center Branch was designed for freshman enrollments Power Plant and Maintenance Shops completed. Cost was $763,305.
The Senior Class initiates the Memory Lane tradition of placing time capsules in the "Memory Lane between the Administration Building and Drieser Hall
September 23, Over 1,000 students held a protest meeting in the Student Union to object to the anticipated Board of Trustees action to name Dr. Ralph Watson President of ISTC. The Board took no action and moved to reconsider. Dr. Ralph N. Tirey had resigned the presidency of ISTC in June
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1953
Enrollment: 1,895 July 1, Raleigh W Holmstedt named President (He was inaugurated on January 6, 1954
Old Stalker Hall, the power plant, and finally the old powerhouse smoke stack standing in the middle of the present quad were razed. These were the last structures of the old Normal School to be destroyed to make the quadrangle.
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1954
Education and Social Studies building (present Stalker Hall) completed. Cost was $900,000. The building was named Stalker Hall in 1966 Strike by local 676 of American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees effects the campus
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1955
Reeve Hall addition (the third wing) completed. This was the second addition (of 76 rooms) added to the original structure Classroom instruction in television broadcasting was begun at ISTC
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1956
Home Economics building completed--this is the first campus building constructed off the quad area The Industrial Education building (present School of Technology) addition completed. It housed the Print Shop
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1957
Library addition completed. The library and the Industrial Education buildings were both remodeled. ISU Distinguished Alumni Awards established
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1958
Industrial Education building remodeling completed
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1959
Student Union building addition completed Burford Residence Hall was completed
First Advanced Degree in Education Awarded
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