Arlington State College - Reveille Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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Arlingtanites Nearing 90, 000 Like the University, the city of Arlington has experienced two periods of extensive growth. During the period 1950-1960, then Arling- ton State College grew from a 2,000 student junior college to a four year school with over 5,000 students. During that same period Arlington grew from 7,000 to 44,000 while at the same time changing from a semi-rural agricultural town to an industrial city. Major industrial growth began in 1954 with the opening of the General Motors Assembly Plant, employing over 3,000. In the last nine years, the college has ma- tured into a university complete with grad- uate studies and a 12,000-student population. The city during this time has grown from 44,000 to about 90,000, Most of the giant Great Southwest Industrial District was built during this time, along with its famous Six Flags Over Texas amusement park. Several thousand UT Arlington students live in apartments bordering the campus. Apartment construction, coupled with resi- dential housing and industrial building have resulted in weekly permits usually totaling over 31,000,000 ui Wk.. Torn Vandergriht, Arlington mayor since 1951, has been one of the major boosters of UT Arlington. and was one of the major workers in F' '.- x. Q'-25255 I 'sf' J 4 . ,,-DSI, i an -Q -4, Lv '. is, :.- M . Construction, such as the Bell Telephone installation being built near the UT Arlington campus has been a common sight in Arlington since 1953 when General Motors opened a major assembly plant. Student population has helped create an apartment boom.

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90 Eager Students - U T Arlington in I 8.95 With a minimum of ingredients-one block of land, a two-story frame building, 85,000 capital, 90 eager students and a handful of faculty-L. M. Hammond and H. W. Trimble fashioned Arlington College in 1895. Seventy- four years and seven name changes later, the college has emerged as The University of Texas at Arlington with 257 acres of land, 338,000,000 worth of facilities, over 400 teach- ers and 12,500 students. As a private school, a military school and finally, a state-supported institution, the school has grown with its sur- roundings. Located in an area whose population has grown from 75,000 to over 2,000,000 in the 74 years of the school's history, UT Arlington can claim a proud heritage of change and growth as well as a promising future as a vitally modern university. In 1970, the school will celebrate its 75th anniversary as an in- stitution of higher learning and its third an- niversary as UTA. E. H. Hereford Student Center was named Ln memory of a former prestdent of what was then Arlington State College The Unwerszty of Texas name was adopted Ln 1967 g I , . .