With old favorites like Easter and Christmas already bogging down our minds with famous dates and holidays, the last thing we need are more anniversaries.

But the history of our school is important, so here are a list of significant dates we all might want to think about celebrating here at Sacramento State.

-Sept. 22, 1947: SCC (or Sacramento State College, now Sac State) held classes for the first time at the campus now occupied by Sacramento City College.

-June 3, 1948: The first graduating class consisted of one student: John J. Collins Jr, who got a degree in history..

– 1948: Tennis was the college’s first sport under the direction of local tennis professional Jack Jossi. The team won the Far Western Conference.

– January 1949: Due to the overwhelming demand of SSC students who wanted their own separate student newspaper, the first issue of the State Hornet appeared.

– May 20, 1949: The first annual senior ball was held.

– July 15, 1949: Guy West was appointed the first President of SCC.

– 1951: The first fraternities began to appear. Xi Theta Chi and Alpha Pi Delta were among the first.

– May 17, 1951: With President West at the controls of a bulldozer, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new campus location (the current location) took place. The actual move to the campus began

Jan. 12, 1953, with classes beginning in the fall.

– Fall 1957: The school’s first football game was held. The team lost 46-0.

– Fall 1963: Student Harold B. Confer goes on a week-long fast over the controversy surrounding the college’s decision in May of not granting two faculty members tenure.

– October 1964: KXPR, a public radio station, began operating in the speech building on campus. It only had a power of 10 watts and could only be heard in the building.

– April 1967: Student Michael L. Johnson was sentenced to prison for possession and sale of illegal drugs on campus. A professor defended him, saying Johnson’s involvement was done “out of love, out of belief that here was a way to guide people to a truer way of engaging with each other.”

– June 1, 1971: Sacramento State College is officially renamed California State University, Sacramento.

– Nov. 21, 1971: Professor of engineering at Stanford University and Nobel Prize winner in Physics William Shockley is greeted at the Sac State campus by protesters dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes for his controversial view of African-Americans.

– Fall 1984: Donald R. Gerth becomes president of Sac State. These are just some of the dates that stand out in the history of Sac State. For more historic dates, including hundreds of photographs, visit the University Arcives.

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