Moving Day 1957

ID: 161 ~ Source: Heywood, C. William, Richard Harlan Thomas. Cornell College: A Sesquicentennial History, 1853-2003. Vol. 1. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: WDG Communications Inc. 2004. ~ Creator: Joan Liffring-Suz Bourret ~ Date: Sept 26, 1957

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Professor Walter Stromer (right front), Professor J. Harold Ennis (center back), and unidentified others carry books on library moving day, September 26, 1957. Students carried seven to eight armloads apiece and received free coffee and doughnuts, a picnic lunch, and a half-day without classes.

This file appears in: Norton Geology/Carnegie Library

Norton Geology/Carnegie Library

In March of 1903, two Cornell College Trustees, acting under the direction of President William Fletcher King, approached philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and convinced him to finance the construction…