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This Month In NCSU History
June
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1893: President Alexander Q. Holladay and the first graduating class from the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now NCSU), June 20, 1893. Of the 72 students who enrolled at the college as freshman in 1889, only 19 graduated.
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1925: Recently renovated, Thompson Hall opened as Thompson Gymnasium 8 June 1925, and served as the home of NC State’s basketball teams until Reynolds Coliseum was opened in 1949.
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1926: Now known as Brooks Hall, this building was officially dedicated as the D. H. Hill Library on June 7, 1926. This was the first individual building the library occupied on campus. Previous locations included the first floor of the old Pullen Hall (1903-1926), and a single room in Holladay Hall (1889-1903).
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1937: A portion of the graduating class at the Textile School of North Carolina State College in front of Tompkins Hall. They graduated in June 1937. Dean Thomas Nelson is in the front row, seventh from the left. The Class of 1937 was the largest that the Textile School had up to that time.
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1956: Farmers watching a demonstration of North Carolina State College's fistulated cow during Farm and Home Week, June 1956. Put on by the NC Cooperative Extension Service, demonstrations like this helped to share knowledge gained at NC State with farmers throughout North Carolina.
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1958: The Dairy Princess for 1958 posing with a carton of ice cream in a dairy factory to promote the "June is Dairy Month" campaign.
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1964: Renamed Lee Dormitory in 1965, "Dorm ´62" was dedicated and opened to its first residents June 8, 1964. Here, North Carolina State Housing Director N. B. Watts examines concealed storage space located near built-in dresser facilities in the dorm just prior to the opening.
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1970s: Shown here before the installation of the fountain and courtyard, Talley Student Center opened in June of 1972, replacing the Erdahl-Cloyd building (now the west wing of D.H. Hill Library) as the campus student center.
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1977: Student reading on the lawn in front of D.H. Hill Library during a summer session in 1977.
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