1953 football team
WWII student service
ranks Juniata among the top 50 colleges and universities with the best records for producing “young American scholars of promise.” Juniata reintroduces graphic arts into the curriculum.
Brumbaugh Science Center
in a variety of disciplines outside their field of concentration.
1963 L.A. Beeghly Library, funded by the Beeghly Foundation, is completed.
1955 The College and Career Department of Mademoiselle magazine rates Juniata among the nation’s outstanding liberal arts schools.
1964 The art department is moved to the renovated Carnegie Library, which is renamed Carnegie Hall.
1956 The 1955 Juniata football team ends its season with an 8-0-1 record, which includes a 6-6 tie in the Tangerine Bowl against Missouri Valley State on Jan. 2. The Tangerine Bowl, in Orlando, Fla., marks Juniata’s first bowl appearance.
1965
1959
From 1953-59 the Juniata College football team produces unparalleled winning teams and moves Juniata to the forefront of small college football. During that seven-year streak, five teams go undefeated on the way to a 50-2-2 record.
1961 A restructured academic curriculum is put into place. The new pattern of education calls for two basic courses, a yearlong course for freshmen and another for seniors. Freshmen take “Great Epochs of World Culture,” while seniors take “Integration of Art, Knowledge, and Conduct,” which is later renamed “Nature of Man.” A broad general education, long one of Juniata’s commitments, is revised by a distribution strategy requiring students to take courses
Led by student Harriet Richardson (Michel) ’65 and poet-in-residence Galway Kinnell, a contingent of 21, including Juniata students, faculty and community pastors take part in the civil rights Freedom Rides to register AfricanAmerican voters in Alabama. Several members of the Juniata contingent were injured when police assaulted demonstrators in Montgomery, Ala. Another group of 64 participated in civil rights demonstrations in Washington, D.C. the same year. The Brumbaugh Science Center is constructed at a cost of $2.7 million.
1967
Science Hall, the College’s main classroom building, is renovated and expanded. The building is renamed Good Hall in honor of donor, J. Omar Good.
1968 Dr. Calvert Ellis retires after 25 years, ending the longest presidential tenure in the College’s history. Dr. John N. Stauffer is named as the eighth
president, beginning a sevenyear tenure during which the College doubles its endowment and receives from J. Omar Good its first $1 million gift. Funding from the Margin of Difference Campaign leads to several campus construction projects, including Ellis Hall (1969) and the East Houses dormitory complex (1970). Dr. Stauffer becomes the first lay president, ending the College’s run of presidents who were members of the Church of the Brethren. Trustee Donovan Beachley Sr. and his family endow a Distinguished Professor Award.
1970
Juniata closes for several days as a result of the tension and divisions on campus when four students at Kent State University in Ohio are shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard. After much debate, a faculty Task Force implements a redesigned curriculum that is labeled “valuecentered liberal education.” The new academic program is more flexible, enabling students to tailor their studies to individual needs and educational goals.
1971
Juniata establishes the Program of Emphasis as part of the curriculum.
1972 Juniata receives $340,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund faculty initiatives and improve the library. 1973
The Field Station is established at Raystown Lake
using the Grove Farm farmhouse as its site. The 335-acre station provides new educational opportunities in environmental science. The Juniata football team advances to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl for the NCAA Division III national championship game. Juniata ends the season as Division III national runners-up with a 10-2 record.
1974 Juniata introduces a program in Peace and Conflict Studies. 1975 Dr. John N. Stauffer steps down from the presidency, and Dr. Frederick M. Binder begins his 11-year tenure as the College’s president. 1976 On Arbor Day, students, faculty, and administrators begin to plant one tree for each decade of Juniata’s 100 years of existence—an $8,000 project. 1979
The Humanities Center, funded by a Kresge Foundation grant, is completed.
1983
The Kennedy Sports and Recreation Center is completed. Dedicated to those from the College who served in World Wars I and II, the Memorial Gym (1951) continues to serve as the center for varsity sports.
1986 Dr. Frederick M. Binder retires as president, and Dr. Robert W. Neff succeeds him to become Juniata’s 10th president.