A Look Back: Humboldt State Through the Years

Humboldt State NOW digs into the photographic archives as campus gets ready for the yearlong centennial celebration in the ’13-’14 academic year. Enjoy a look back every week as HS NOW features historical photos. Photos will also be added to the Scrolling Archive on the HSU Centennial webpage. And be sure to share your own memories and photos from campus at "humboldt.edu/100/share":http://humboldt.edu/100/share.
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The old printing press that produced the _Sempervirens_ yearbook, among other things, is seen in this 1958 photo. The yearbook was published through the end of the 1960s when campus attitudes changed. At this same time the final fraternities on campus dissolved and the campus began selling beer and wine.

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Lucky Logger rides in a Chevrolet Corvette convertible during the 1962 homecoming parade. That year also saw the end of Humboldt State College’s junior college program, the start up of Arcata’s metro bus service, and the completion of the forestry building. In state matters, the California State Colleges Board of Trustees predicted Humboldt would have 12,000 students by 1990.

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Founders Hall is seen from the library in this 1973 photo.

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The tennis team poses for this undated photo in the old tennis courts. Humboldt State fielded men’s and women’s tennis teams from the 1930s through the 1960s.

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This undated photos shows an entrance to the COOP, the campus’s former supply store and soda fountain.

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This undated photo shows a College Lyceum fieldtrip to Santa Rosa. Humboldt’s Lyceum, named for the public spaces of Classical Greece, traveled throughout northern California to present musical and dramatic performances while also recruiting new students. The group was later known as the Collegians.