Dedication of Tresidder among 2012 notable anniversaries

Tresidder Memorial Union, named for Stanford's fourth president, Donald Tresidder, opened in 1962. This photo was taken in 1964.

Stanford will be celebrating a number of notable anniversaries in 2012, according to the Stanford Historical Society’s publication A Chronology of Stanford University and its Founders.

For instance, 25 years ago, Stanford cheerleading made a comeback after falling on hard times in the 1970s, the baseball team won the College World Series—a first for Stanford—and seismic concerns forced the abrupt closing of Roble Hall and relocation of 294 students.

Fifty years ago, Tresidder Memorial Union was dedicated, and 153,000 people came to Stanford Stadium to see a U.S.-Soviet Union track meet that culminated in “the Cold War rivals joining hands during the closing ceremony and marching in pairs past the stands before a roaring crowd.”

Seventy-five years ago, RUSSELL and SIGURD VARIAN began a collaboration with physicist WILLIAM HANSON that led to the invention of the klystron microwave tube, while dedications were held for both Frost Amphitheater and Memorial Hall. Also, the Hanna family moved into the now-famous house built for them by Frank Lloyd Wright.

What are other notable anniversaries? One hundred years ago, Lane Medical Library was dedicated at the Medical Department, which was then located in San Francisco. And, 125 years ago, the university’s cornerstone was laid at what is now Building 60 on what would have been LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR‘s 19^th birthday.

A Chronology of Stanford University and its Founders (2001), written by KAREN BARTHOLOMEW, CLAUDE BRINEGAR and ROXANNE NILAN, can be purchased in the Stanford Bookstore.