University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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i buses replace electric trolleys. Pioneer Hotel opens and the 1 st Tucson YMCA begins. 1 935 Margaret Slee starts the first birth control clinic here. She later founded the Planned Parenthood movement. 1 951 State Leg. repeals the school segregation law, and Tucson District One becomes the first in the state to desegre- gate. 1953 First commercial tv station (Channel 13) begins broadcasting with call letters KOPO, later KOLD. 1960 Tucson ' s population leaps to 21 2, 892. 1970 UA enrollment sur- passes 25,000 students. Pima Community College opens. The Pioneer Hotel burns, killing 28 persons. It was the worst land disaster in the state ' s history. 1971 The $17.6 million Tucson Community Center opens. 1974 Gerald Ford becomes one of the half-dozen presidents to pass through Tuc- son. 1975 200 years, we made it!!! University diary: 1885 to today 1 885 What would become the University of Arizona was considered undesirable when the 13th Territorial Legislature awarded it to Tucson. The townspeople had sent money to woo the state capital to Tucson, but that prize went to Prescott. As a second choice, they wanted an insane asylum, which ended up in Phoenix. 1 887 Ground was broken for Old Main, the first building at UA. It is now in the National Register of Historic Places. The university ' s first motto was Come with us and we will do you good. 1891 UA begins first day of classes on Oct. 1 . 1 895 When the UA ' s first class of 1895 graduated, uni- versity administration urged the populace to come to the eve- ning festivities to see electric lights in operation at Old Main. Tucson had water and gas before it had electricity, (continued) ua 1 886 25

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