Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-21-1989

Keywords

history (GSU's past)

Abstract

On July 17, 1969, mankind was holding its collective breath anxiously waiting for Neil Armstrong to land on the moon.

"Funny Girl" and "Midnight Cowboy" were box-office successes.

The newly elected Nixon Administration said it was deferring work on housing and urban problems until it ended the Vietnam War and inflation.

The 1969 Volkswagen Beetle was a beauty at $1,799.

And Illinois Gov. Richard Ogilvie came to a party in the south suburbs to sign legislation that created Governors State University.

The new university was the outgrowth of long-range planning by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) which recognized a need for commuter campuses.

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