1910: With all the pomp and ceremony due such an occasion, the cornerstone of the new science hall was laid. The ceremony opened with music by the band and orchestra and closed with an impressive cornerstone laying ceremony, conducted by the Masonic Lodge.

1933: Southwestern student Phillip Turley of Custer City was killed when he was thrown from the rumble seat of an automobile near Custer City.

1949: Dr. W.D. Strother, former professor of pharmacy at the University of Georgia, was named to head the Southwestern Tech Pharmacy Department.

1969: Southwestern received approval from the State Regents on a $116,698 bid to blacktop new parking areas and resurface old streets and parking lots.

1977: It was announced that Southwestern's newly organized nursing program admitted its first class of 33 students into the clinical phase of the major.

1988: The Southwestern women used their domination in breakaway roping to claim a national championship title at the College National Finals Rodeo in Bozeman, Mont.