University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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got underway in 1909, with Dr. Daniel Jenkins as its first president. The campus was at 24th and Pratt. May 6, 1930, by some 1,000-plus votes, the Municipal University ot Omaha came into being when the voters of Omaha favored such a plan. In 1936, the present campus was selected for future development, and in the year 1938 the present Administration Building was erected on the West Dodge site. Dr. Rowland Haynes was prexy of OU during the period 1935-48, and was succeeded by the present president, Dr. Milo Bail. The stadium and fieldhouse were added in 1949, the Gene Eppley Library in 1956, and the Music Building in that same year. Currently under construction are two' buildings, the Applied Arts-Classroom Building, and the Student Union Building. Fully accredited, nationally recognized - thatfs our University of Omaha!

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DEDICA In October of 1958 the University of Omaha celebrated its 50th Anniversary. In a matter of weeks, the 50th commencement will be history, and those of us who have known OU, and in turn become known, will be setting our sights on a centennial in 2008. ln dedicating this 1959 TOMAHAWK, we are looking to the future rather than the past Kfor it is now historyl or to the present Cwhich is already upon usj and what that future holds. The pictures on these pages are an attempt to reflect that future via a great Omaha U today. But before turning the pages, let us think for a moment about this institution of higher learning which has grown to a position of prominence in Nebraska and the Midwest in recent years, this place of our strength and guidance. Our beginning was in 1908, when Omaha U was incorporated as a co-educational non-sectarian college. The first class of 26 students, with five faculty members,

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