University of South Florida - Aegean Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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a. .d H O F h t U 0 S v nu U T H PU Du T: E N

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Expanding from a total enrollment of 1,997 on September 26, 1960, to approximately 22, 812 at the beginning of 1979, the University of South Florida grew almost twelve times its original size in 19 years. It is quite conceivabIe that the Florida State Board of Education drew up the Resolution to build USF without realizing exactly how immense the school would become. The four original colleges of the school's opening underwent reorganization, and in 1971, the College of Basic Studies and the College of Liberal Arts became the Colleges of Arts and Letters, Fine Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Natural Sciences. 'Wknwwnm-,6'

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Regarding the history of USF, the University was char- tered by the Florida Legislature on October 12, 1956, and its current site approved on December 18, 1956. Dr. john 5. Allen was appointed president of USF on August 1, 1957. Since the first building on campus was the library, it was appropriate that the first university employee was Elliot Hardaway, director of the library, appointed on October 6, 1957. While the library was the first building on campus, the University Center has become the main focus of activities for most students. Events of all types are held at the UC, from the flea market on Wednesdays to fraternity and sorority meetings on Sunday nights. The UC is to extracurricular activities what the library is to academics.