| 1941 |
A Women's riding field acquired; named in
1942 for benefactors Samuel S. and Maude Lair Prentiss. |
| 1942 |
Japanees-Americans evacuated from West Coast.
Carleton agrees to accept interned Nisei students continuing their
wartime educations. |
| 1942 |
Carleton buys land near Stanton to build
an airport
to be used for military training. |
| 1942-1945 |
War brings major disruptions in campus life.
As male enrollment plummets, women occupy virtually all important
student offices and, in 1944045, the previously male West Side dorms.
In 1943 and 1944 Carleton hosts several Army units, which receive
instruction in engineering, aeronautics, meteorology, and modern languages.
Altogether over 1,500 Carleton men and women serve in the armed forces
during WWII; 55 men lose their lives. |
| 1943 |
Male enrollment drops fro 455 to 93. Wally
Ulrich '45 wins NCAA men's golf championship tournament. |
| 1943 |
Dean Lodge, off-campus housing for women
since 1919, burns in a fire. |
| 1945 |
Popular Carleton Geology Prof. Laurence
M. Gould, a University of Michigan alumnus and noted polar explorer,
succeeds President Cowling, who retires after leading Carleton through
two World Wars and a Depression. Gould had been a member of the faculty
since 1932. |
| 1946-1950 |
Influx of veterans pushes enrollment over
1,000. |
| 1947-1955 |
Pine Hill Village, student housing for married
veterans, located across Lyman Lakes. |
| April 1948 |
Student-run radio station KARL begins broadcasts.
(Changed to KARX
in 1974/75.) |
| May 1948 |
The World premier of Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian
Chalk Circle is performed in Nourse Theater by the Carleton Players,
directed by Henry Goodman. |
| 1948 |
Comprehensive exams are introduced for seniors. |
| 1948 |
Students vote to abolish last of the literary
societies. |
| 1949 |
Carleton graduates its first black student.
|
| 1949 |
Dedication of Boliou Memorial Art Building. |
| 1949 |
The Carleton-in-China program ends as communist
China is closed to such endeavors. In 1951 a Carleton-in-Japan program
is initiated, first at a school in Osaka, later at Kyoto's Doshisha
University. |
| 1950 |
"Knights" adopted as varsity sports
team names. |
| 1953 |
Dedication of the remodeled Willis Memorial
Union. (It actually opened in 1954) |
| 1954 |
The Carleton's Airfield is sold. |
| 1956 |
Dedication of the new Library. |
| 1957 |
Scoville Memorial Library is remodeled and
rededicated as Scoville Hall. |
| 1958 |
Musse and Myers halls are erected. |
| 1958 |
Student enrollment permanently exceeds 1,000. |
| 1958 |
Carole Pushing '61 win the NCAA women's golf
crown. |
| 1958 |
Carleton joins with nine other liberal arts
institutions to form the Associate Colleges of the Midwest. Programs
sponsored by ACM will greatly increase the range of off-campus programs,
both foreign and domestic, available to students in future years. |
| 1959/60 |
Founding of the literary quarterly The
Carleton Miscellany. |
| 1960 |
A student exchange program with historically
all-black Spelman College in Atlanta begins. |
| 1961 |
Dedication of Olin Hall of Science.
|
| 1961 |
Williams Hall in razed. |
| 1962 |
Carleton's fifth president, John W. Nason
'26, is selected after Laurence M. Gould announces his desire to return
to classroom teaching in Arizona. Nason is the first Carleton alumnus
to be named president. A former Carleton Rhodes Scholar, former president
of Swarthmore College, and president of the Foreign Policy Association,
Nason will see the College through the balance of the turbulent 60s. |
| 1962 |
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller makes
a legendary appearance during the fourth quarter of a football game,
dangling from a helicopter by a 50 foot chain. |
| 1962 |
A new men's dorm is occupied in September.
In 1963 it is named for Horace Goodhue, Jr. |
| 1963 |
A group of students found the Reformed
Druids of North America, initially as a protest against mandatory
chapel. Carleton's religious requirement in abolished in 1964.
|
| 1964 |
Carleton's dairy herd is auctioned off. |
| 1964 |
Carleton establishes the Asian
studies program.
|
| 1964 |
Dedication of a new men's gymnasium, later
known as West Gym |
| 1965 |
A Carleton minority groups scholarship program is instituted.
|
| 1965 |
Carleton's Computer Date Night receives national
publicity. |
| 1965 |
Dedication of a women's gymnasium, the Elizabeth
Cowling Recreation Center. |
| 1966 |
The College hosts its first-annual summer
ABC (A Better
Chance) program, through which promising teens from underprivileged
backgrounds prepare for entry into top high schools. Carleton students
serve as resident tutors for this program, which continues into the
70s. |
