{"id":75916,"date":"2022-10-13T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=75916"},"modified":"2022-10-14T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:35:15","slug":"celebrating-150-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_13_2022\/celebrating-150-years-2","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 150 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Toledo celebrated its sesquicentennial on Founder’s Day with food, fun and music. The day started with barbecue events on both campuses, featured a lecture and the opening of an exhibit highlighting the University’s 150-year history, and concluded with performances by local and national musicians in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n

The campus community first enjoyed the Founder\u2019s Day BBQ lunch on Main Campus and Health Science Campus with food and games.<\/p>\n

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Later that afternoon, Barbara Floyd, retired university archivist and author of the upcoming book \u201cAn Institution for the Promoting of Knowledge: The University of Toledo at 150,\u201d discussed The University of Toledo’s history at Carlson Library. Titled \u201cFounder\u2019s Day Lecture: Ten Events That Shaped 150 Years,\u201d the lecture can be watched on the history page of the 150th celebration webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ward M. Canaday Center\u2019s exhibit commemorating UToledo\u2019s sesquicentennial, \u201cFaith, Vision, and Hard Work: The University of Toledo, 1872-2022,\u201d officially opened following the lecture.<\/p>\n

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Next, Rockets packed Savage Hall for the Founder’s Day concert featuring local bands Distant Cousinz and the Skittle Bots, followed by national acts country-rapper David Morris and country singer Nate Smith below.<\/p>\n

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The Founder’s Day concert and day of celebrations concluded with headliner T-Pain.<\/p>\n

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To see more photos from throughout the day, visit the\u00a0150th celebration website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about UToledo’s 150-year history at utoledo.edu\/150celebration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

UToledo President Gregory Postel and Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner tour the sesquicentennial exhibition on display in the Canaday Center on Founder’s Day. UToledo celebrated its 150th anniversary with food, fun and music. View a variety of photos from the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":75917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75916"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75951,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75916\/revisions\/75951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}