1950 to 1959

1950

Dominican priests and lady faculty increase. Aquinas College still has a split campus, 科学、音乐和夜校在市中心的旧兰森街举行 and other classes at the Robinson Road campus. Students drive or take public transportation between campuses. For a while, students were ferried back and forth by a black-and-white 他们开玩笑地称之为“黑色玛丽亚”，这是一个俚语，指的是警察的交通工具 vehicle. Enrollment growth and cramped quarters step up the urgency for a building 增加教室空间和整合校园的运动.

第一个荣誉社团——Delta Epsilon Sigma和Kappa Gamma Pi成立了 in 1950.

The first athletic banquet is held at the Eastern Avenue Hall. Athletic director Joe Nagle awards letters to 47 student athletes.

To hear alumni reminisce about faculty members Lew Clingman, Sr. Noella, Sr. Bernetta, and George LaMountain, click here. 这段音频剪辑来自“从历史上讲”，十大赌博正规平台在线的口述历史.

Fr. Henry Nauer, professor of education and originator of The Circle, dies. The Circle continues to meet monthly sponsoring dances, songfests and socials.

每年五月为圣母像加冕的仪式现在已经开始了 a well established college tradition. Here Dorothy Zeelbeck has the honor on May 6, 1950.

Cheerleading was the first athletic activity for Aquinas women.

1953

Discussion continues about consolidating campuses. The discussion has renewed urgency 因为大急流城消防局长已经宣布兰森街的建筑 need major renovations to bring them up to modern fire code. The Dominican leadership 决定出售市中心的房产，并在罗宾逊河上进行一个建筑项目 Road campus.

A program is announced to expand the Robinson Road campus. A location for a new academic 建筑被选中，印第安纳波利斯Bohlen and Son建筑公司 designs a three-story building that becomes the Administration Building. Ground is broken on November 19, 1953. The college's building boom will continue in the 1960's with the addition of several more new buildings.

Addition of Business Administration major.

建筑师对行政大楼的原计划要求增加 wings on the ends of the building to house a chapel and a library. These wings were 从未建造过的图书馆，几年后被分在了一起二楼，最后挤在二楼，直到2007年开业 the Grace Hauenstein Library.

在20世纪五六十年代，在十大赌博登录官网的校园里，突破性的事物成为了熟悉的景象. The first was for the Administration (now Academic) Building, November 18, 1953. T. 非专业顾问委员会主席杰拉尔德·麦克沙恩(Gerald McShane)挥舞着铁铲，就像布考斯基主教一样 (2nd from left), Mother Victor Flannery, and other dignitaries watch.

1954 to 1955

1954

Marian Hall, the women students' residence on the downtown campus, is closed.

中锋劳埃德·布朗带领汤米队在一场出人意料的篮球比赛中战胜了加尔文队 Knights. One of the premier basketball and track stars in Michigan, Brown averages 19.5 points per game, once scoring 72 points in a single game.

1954年，行政大楼(后来被称为学术大楼)的建设得到批准 for vastly expanded classroom space and the closing of the downtown campus. Students 大卫·博克海姆，伊莱恩·兰德尔和约翰·罗南检查建筑材料 takes shape in the background.

Aquinas' baseball tradition begins to gather steam. Here the 1954 team poses for a yearbook photo.

Click here to listen to alumni from the class of 1956 recall this event. This audio clip is from "Historically Speaking," an oral history of Aquinas College.

1954年，这些Alpha Gamma Pi -soxers在莎士比亚的指导下复习他们的音乐 watchful eye. Alpha Gamma Pi was the college music club.

These rambunctious students gather in the crowded Commons in 1954. The commons was located in the basement of Holmdene. The crowded room shows that Aquinas was growing 搬离霍尔姆丁的旧址，并准备将其扩展到行政部门 Building in 1955.

1955

Completion of Administration Building (now known as Academic Building ). The new building houses offices for college administrators, staff and faculty. In addition, it contains classrooms, the library, chapel, bookstore and cafeteria. Restrooms in those years 是严格隔离的:牧师、修女、男女教职员和男性 and female students all had their own facilities on various floors. Holmdene becomes a residence for Dominican sisters who teach at the college. Monsignor Bukowski says a daily 6:30 a.m. Mass there for the sisters in the building's chapel.

Click here 听听上世纪50年代的校友们对新大楼开幕的回忆. 这段音频剪辑来自“从历史上讲”，十大赌博正规平台在线的口述历史.

每年的圣母大会是一个传统，到1954年，这张照片是一个念珠游行 was taken outside Holmdene. Aquinas' Catholic and Dominican heritage is celebrated in many ways.

In 1955, collegiate basketball had yet to be introduced to the slam dunk. Here a Tommy gets airborne without the help of Air Jordans.

多明尼加姐妹会和其他姐妹会占了暑期课程学生的大部分. 在一学年期间，他们在教会学校教书，完成了他们的学位 requirements in summer sessions. Here the sisters inaugurate the new Administration Building in the summer of 1955.

Sr. Angus Black oversaw the kitchen and lunchroom at Aquinas for many years.

1956-1957

In 1956, television was still a fairly new invention. Here a student watches the tube in the College's audio-visual room. The college was also home to a radio station, WXTO隶属于天主教大急流城教区，由休·迈克尔神父经营 Beahan. The college briefly experimented with closed-circuit televised courses, but the experiment was abandoned in the early 1960's.

由1955年至1958年的学生委托并出资建造的托马斯·十大赌博登录官网(Thomas Aquinas)雕像就在这里 admired by Father Thomas Aquinas Hennessey, O.P., one of many Dominican priests who served Aquinas College. The statue, originally in the lobby of the Administration 后来搬到外面，被不知名的歹徒破坏，最终 replaced in 1990 with a statue carved by Sr. Phyllis Mrozinski, O.P.

1956

在他1956-57年的年度报告中，布可夫斯基主教回顾了十大赌博登录官网的历史大学:“大学在智力、道德和宗教方面所做的好事 spheres is not calculable, but it is recorded in the archives of heaven. The solid 希望将来会有更多的机会为教会服务 and to the country.”

9月，一年级女生宿舍Siena Hall在罗宾逊街1307号开放 Road, with Ms. Gertrude Horgan as head resident.

Members of Lambda Iota Tau, the national literary honors society. The society is open 三年级或四年级英语专业及辅修学生，成绩优异者 point averages in literary studies.

Students in Father Hennessey's theology class pay strict attention. This photo reminds us that in the 1950's going to college was a formal affair. Note the men in sports 大衣，穿裙子的女人，还有穿着多米尼加习俗的亨尼西神父 wear in 1956.

10月，第一个节日周末举行，星期五晚上有舞会，星期六有狂欢节 and a Sunday dinner, netting $15,000. Gala Weekend becomes an annual tradition through the 1980's, eventually being replaced by Homecoming.

Click here 听乔·墨菲和上世纪50年代的校友们回忆第一届春晚 Weekend. This audio clip is from "Historically Speaking," an oral history of Aquinas College.

十大赌博登录官网的学生们正在欣赏法蒂玛圣母雕像，准备工作正在进行 for the 1956 Marian Congress.

In 1956, as in all years, students like to sit in the back of the room. Here "Doc" John Poje and Gene Smith meet with members of the Science Club.

Officers of the Aquinas College Science Club meet with "Doc" Poje and Mr. Eugene Smith.

The Circle的成员们使用尖端技术，为“KAC-TV”进行了生动的采访 technology.

1957

Aquinas College theater presents Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

The Aquinas College bookstore, overseen by student Carolyn Donovan and Sr. Helen Louse Brogger, O.P., was located in AB 11 in 1957.

Students form a conga line at this 1957 Gala Weekend dance.

Athletic director Joseph Baker dies.

1957 Gala Weekend

为玛丽加冕为五月女王是十大赌博正规平台在线每年的传统 Marian Congress. Here the 1957 May Queen and her court place the coronet of flowers on the head of Mary at the Fatima shrine.

这名1957年的大学生在第二天早上醒来时头有点模糊，他需要抬头看看那些标记着大学校园里那些名字古怪的“街道”的路标. 他似乎在接骨木巷(Elderberry Lane)和韦格路(Wege Drive)的交汇处.

1957年，这两个学生被拍到在十大赌博登录官网美丽的树林里“沉思” campus.

1957年，这辆没有后窗的威利斯卡车是十大赌博登录官网的首选 grounds and maintenance patrol.

1958 to 1959

Monsignor Arthur Bukowski guides Aquinas College through the 1950s and 1960s. "Buk" 以管理十大赌博登录官网的方方面面而闻名，包括关灯 in empty classrooms to save on utility bills.

A choir of Dominican sisters at prayer at the Marywood motherhouse.

1958

Sr. Noella Byrne, history professor, dies.

A property at 1309 Lake Dr. SE is purchased by the college to serve as Lourdes Hall, another residence for women students. The growing student population will necessitate the building of on-campus residence halls in the 1960's.

Mr. Peter Wege的筹款工作对学院的发展起到了重要作用， is awarded an honorary Ll.D. from Aquinas College. During the building boom of the 20世纪50年代末和60年代初，韦格为学院孜孜不倦的工作和他的贡献 to the campus include the Wege Center.

Sr. Mildred Hawkins, O.P., Academic Dean, 1949 to 1963, provides leadership to the faculty.

二年级学生在十大赌博正规平台在线图书馆里阅读课文 AB.

1959

This 1959 co-ed discusses controlling metaphors with Sr. Marybride Ryan, O.P. Ryan, a native of Ireland, shared her love of literature with generations of students.

1959年，两名女学生走过十大赌博登录官网校园的冬日仙境.

1月:一项为期12年、耗资800万美元的计划启动，以扩大实体工厂由尤金·肯尼迪和彼得领导的教师和学生援助项目 Wege从Steelcase Corporation休了一年假，担任商业顾问. 在接下来的十年里，校园将会发生变化，因为它将建立学生宿舍， a student center, and a new gymnasium.

布可夫斯基主教与工程师和修女们一起勘测施工现场 of Albertus Hall, 1959.

Ground is broken for new Albertus Hall, Sept. 18, 1959. Wielding the shovel is alumni association president Richard Loughrin '42. He is joined by Mother M. Euphrasia Sullivan of the Board of Trustees, Mother M. Victor Flannery, Prioress General of the Grand Rapids Dominicans, Sr. M. Mildred Hawkins, Peter Wege and members of the Knights of Columbus.

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