October 6, 2022
Groundbreaking for The University of Toledo’s new campus along Bancroft Street began in 1929. Two years later, construction was completed for both University Hall and the Field House. Learn more about UToledo’s 150th anniversary at utoledo.edu/150celebration.
September 29, 2022
In honor of Saturday’s Homecoming, we look back to this float circa 1970. As we celebrate UToledo’s sesquicentennial this year, we’re also approaching the centennial of our first Homecoming in 1924 when the Rockets played the then-named Bowling Green Normal School. The Rockets won 12-7. Learn more about UToledo’s 150th anniversary at utoledo.edu/150celebration.
September 15, 2022
As we begin The University of Toledo’s yearlong sesquicentennial, we look back at the University's centennial celebration in 1972, which included the issuance of commemorative license plates. Learn more about UToledo's 150th anniversary at utoledo.edu/150celebration.
September 8, 2022
Founded in 1915, the first fraternity at UToledo was called the Cresset Fraternity and later changed its name to Phi Kappa Chi. In October 1922, when this photo was taken, the group built the first fraternity house on the University’s campus, which was then located at Parkside and Nebraska. The fraternity has since changed its name to Pi Kappa Alpha, moved several more times and is now located in McComas Village.
August 11, 2022
With the start of fall semester coming up Aug. 29, we look back to when incoming UToledo students attended Freshman Camp in 1964 at YMCA Storer Camps in southeast Michigan. The camp was established by University President Asa Knowles in 1951 as an orientation where upperclassmen served as camp counselors and faculty and administrators visited to meet and answer questions from the new students.
June 23, 2022
In what is now the oldest residence hall on campus, two UToledo students lounge in their MacKinnon Hall dorm room back in 1980. Check out their stereo receiver, complete with a built-in AM-FM radio tuner and an 8-track tape player, on the bookshelf as a musical complement to the turntable. MacKinnon North was built in 1938 and MacKinnon South in 1962.
June 16, 2022
Rocket fans, including alumnus Jeff Cole, far right, who later served on the UToledo Board of Trustees, pose outside Carlson Library for a 1994 marketing photoshoot to spotlight UToledo merchandise.
April 21, 2022
As we approach spring graduation, we remember a major milestone for The University of Toledo: then-President Frank Horton handing out the 100,000th diploma to Kimberly Urban during the June 11, 1994, commencement ceremony. UToledo will celebrate the class of 2022 during the two undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 7 and the graduate commencement ceremony on May 6.
March 31, 2022
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we honor Mildred Taylor, a critically acclaimed children’s author and UToledo alumna, class of 1965. A Mississippi native raised in Toledo, Taylor, now 78, was inspired by her family’s history to write stories exploring the struggles of African American families from the era of enslavement through the Jim Crow period including the children’s book “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” which won the Newberry Medal in 1976.
March 24, 2022
As we celebrate Women’s History Month and look forward to the UToledo women’s third-round WNIT game at 8 p.m. Thursday at Marquette, we look back to when and where it all it started: fall of 1922 at the YWCA in downtown Toledo. There were 14 women at the basketball team’s first practice. A year later and the turnout more than doubled to 35.
