{"id":8203,"date":"2017-11-16T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2017-11-29T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:40:19","slug":"looking-back-decades-of-augsburgs-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2017\/11\/16\/looking-back-decades-of-augsburgs-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back: decades of Augsburg\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"

1857: 160 Years Ago\"Old<\/h2>\n

Fifteen years before Augsburg moved in next door, Edward Murphy donated land
\nfor the first city park in Minneapolis\u2014what is now Murphy Square. For years prior, the parcel had been used as a cow pasture.<\/p>\n

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1937: 80 Years Ago<\/h2>\n

Augsburg elected an erudite and scholarly teacher, Bernhard Christensen \u201922, \u201925, to be president. He led the institution for nearly 25 years, during which time Augsburg made vigorous efforts to expand and enhance academic offerings.<\/p>\n

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1967: 50 Years Ago\"Simon<\/h2>\n

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel played for more than 3,000 people in Si Melby Hall on Nov. 10, 1967. According to an Augsburg Echo review, the lengthiest applause was reserved for the song, \u201cTo Emily, Wherever I Might Find Her.\u201d The same year saw the openings of Urness Hall and the Christensen Center, with the Marshall Room at the time serving as a faculty lounge to the resentment of the Echo\u2019s editorial board.<\/p>\n

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1977: 40 Years Ago\"Andersen<\/h2>\n

Construction began on what is now the Charles S. Anderson Music Hall, which would open a year later, bringing the entire music department under one roof for the first time in 100 years.<\/p>\n

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1987: 30 Years Ago<\/h2>\n

Augsburg began offering its first graduate degree program, the Master of Arts in Leadership. Augsburg now offers nine post baccalaureate programs and set an enrollment record this fall with 1,035 master\u2019s students.<\/p>\n

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2007: 10 Years Ago\"Oren<\/h2>\n

In 2007, Oren Gateway Center opened, connecting Riverside Avenue with the James G. Lindell Library, which opened a decade earlier. OGC will lose the distinction of being Augsburg\u2019s newest building when the Norman and Evangeline Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion is completed in late 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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