Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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1889 1890 1893 1894 1897 1903 1905 1908 1909 1910 1914 1915 1917 1921 1925 1928 2 McTyeire died, February. Vanderbilt won its first football game, 40-0. Iames H. Kirkland became Chancellor. The first basketball team. Toilet installed in College Hall for women. Financial Aid begun by the Ladies' Aid Society to worthy and needy young men inthe.AcadennclDeparUnenL William Dudley established the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Statue of Commodore Vanderbilt erected. Robert Vaughan, president of the Glee Club, wrote the Alma Mater. Student Council, the first student government, organized. The Comet became The Commodore. Hospital began a nurse training program. Herbert Cushing Tolman established first southern chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Vanderbilt campus made a training field for military exercises during World War I. Vanderbilt became completely independent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Alumni Association organized. Alexander Heard born, March 14th. The Fugitives began a literary magazine called The Fugitives. Hospital nursing program became the Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Dr. Ada Bell Stapleton became the first Dean of Women and the first woman faculty member. Semi-Centennial Celebration, October 14th-17th. Dedication of Alumni Hall and Neely Auditorium. Buttrick, Calhoun, and Garland built. 1934 1941 1946 1948 1949 1957 1958 1959 1961 1962 1963 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 Oliver C. Carmichael became Chancellor. Ioint University Library built. Harvey Branscomb became Chancellor. Statue of the Commodore turned to face West End Avenue. Cole Hall Built. Biggest Panty Raid. Carillon installed in Kirkland Hall. Benton Chapel built. Vanderbilt-in-France began. Vucept, the freshman advisory council, formed. Spectrum, campus literary magazine, began. Board of Trust announced its decision to admit qualified students with no restric- tions according to race to all schools and colleges of the University. Branscomb Quadrangle built. Vanderbilt coed, Martha Ellen Truett, was third runner-up in the Miss America contest. Alexander Heard inaugurated as Chancellor, October 4th. Chancellor Heard appointed chairman of the White House Commission Cam- pus Unrest, May. Dr. Earl Sutherland won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Chancellor Heard elected Chairman of the Board, Ford Foundation. University Senate became Faculty Senate. Stevenson Center for the Natural Sciences completed. Vanderbilt-in-England began. Ground-breaking for Sarratt Commons, November 15th. House mothers replaced by Area Directors. Centennial Celebration of Vanderbilt's founding, March 16th and 17th. Centennial Celebration of the dedication and opening of the Universi- ty, October 3rd-5th.

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Mr. William Vanderbilt Vice-President, Board of Trust The Centennial Celebration: MARCH 16-I7, 1973 Remarks by William H. Vanderbiltatthe dinner for Commodore Vanderbilts descendants, Friday, March 16, 1973 President and Mrs. Vaughn, Chancellor and Mrs. Heard, ladies and gentlemen: One hundred and sixty years ago, the Commodore married his cousin, Sophia Iohnson, and they had 13 children. I guess that's where this reunion started. Seven daughters and one son had children and from that small start on that small Island in New York Harbor, we have spread a long way. Some 700 descendants have been identified. We are grateful to Alex and lean Heard for joining with us in giving this party and for allowing us to hold it in their home. I am very grateful to all of you for coming to this reunion. When Alex Heard suggested we invite descendants of the Com- modore, I agreed but told him I thought we would get very few-and now, much to my sur- prise, we have about 120. The Commodore was the sth generation of Vanderbilts in this country. His branch of the family moved to Staten Island and he grew up there on a farm. He earned his first hundred dollars from his mother by clearing and plowing a field. This money he used to buy a boat and he was off and away, running a ferry service to Manhat- tan. This was the first of many ships owned by him, ships that plied the Hudson River, the Atlantic to Europe, to Central America and the