University of New Mexico Celebrations, 1928-[ongoing]

Gordon, William C.

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University of New Mexico. Office of the University Secretary.

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In 1912, David Ross Boyd, the University of New Mexico's fifth president's investiture ceremony was held in the old Albuquerque Opera House. The next inaugural ceremony was in 1928 for President James F. Zimmerman and was combined with that year's commencement exercises. The 1946 inauguration of President J.P. Wernette was recorded on 12 inch phonograph disks. Other University Presidents were inaugurated in 1949 (Popejoy), 1968 (Heady), 1986 (May), 1990 (Peck), and 1999 (Gordon). Fro...

Wernette, John Philip, 1900-....

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When President James F. Zimmerman died of a heart attack in October 1944, the University was left without a president. A Board made up of the University Deans was then appointed to run the University until a new president was hired in 1946. John Philip Wernette was hired as the University of New Mexicos 8th president and began work in August 1946. Wernette was born in Imlay City, Michigan on October 29, 1903. He received his A.B. degree from the University of...

Popejoy, Thomas Lafayette, 1902-1975

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Schmidly, David J., 1943-

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Heady, Ferrel

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Ferrel Heady was born on February 14, 1916 in Ferrelview, Missouri. He earned all of his degrees-an AB in political science and English and an MA and PhD in political science-at the Washington University in St. Louis, completing his PhD in 1940. Prior to coming to UNM, he worked in public administration and taught political science at the University of Michigan. He served as academic vice president under President Thomas Popejoy for a year prior to his appointment as University Pres...

May, Gerald W.

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University of New Mexico.

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The University of New Mexico was established by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico in 1889. It was to be located in Albuquerque. Elias Stover was appointed the first president. The new institution opened in rented rooms as a summer normal school, June 15, 1892, beginning regular instruction on September 21st in the first building erected on the campus. In 1901 Dr. William G. Tight became president. He introduced the "Pueblo Style" architecture for the University buildings. U...

Zimmerman, James Fulton, 1887-1944

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James Zimmerman served as President of the University of New Mexico from 1928 to 1944. When the New Mexico Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission was established he was elected president of the Commission. Other state commissions from Arizona, Texas, Kansas, and, Oklahoma were established as well as the United States Coronado Exposition Commission to plan the commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the 1540 journey and explorations of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to the American South...

Peck, Richard E.

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