Column: UWSP continues to embrace Wisconsin Idea
12/25/2014
Stevens Point Journal

By Chancellor Bernie Patterson

Before 2014 draws to a close, we mark a special anniversary: The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point celebrated 120 years in the community this year.

Can you imagine the excitement to learn a school would be built in Stevens Point? People paraded in the street when the telegram came at midnight July 21, 1893. The Board of Regents of Normal Schools of Wisconsin chose Stevens Point on the 101st ballot.

The first classes were taught in the building we now know as Old Main. The Stevens Point Normal School opened Sept. 17, 1894, with 200 students enrolled in teacher training courses.

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