Anniversary, seventy-fifth, convocation

This image shows a speaker behind a podium in the Varsity Gymnasium, built 1968, giving a speech celebrating the University's seventy-fifth anniversary. Standing behind the podium is Mr. Sam Ervin who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. The seventy-fifth anniversary of Appalachian State University (1967-current) was celebrated in 1978, commemorating the anniversary of the University becoming a state-sponsored institution with a focus in teacher training in 1903, when Watauga Academy (1899-1903) became Appalachian Training School (1903-1925).

Anniversaries

Appalachian State University

General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 4, Appalachian Anniversary [75th], C14.2.1.4.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

1978

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Appalachian State University

Varsity Gymnasium (1968)

Series 2 -- Events

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