University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Organization

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1971 - Present

Historical Note

With the merger of the Wisconsin State University System and the University of Wisconsin System, completed in 1971, the name of the institution was changed to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A new academic building, the Richard E. Hibbard Humanities Hall, opened in 1974. In 1977, construction on a major addition to Davies Center was completed. In 1982, the Allied Health and Clinical Services Building on the north bank of the Chippewa River was completed. Construction of an addition to the Nursing Building was begun. The addition opened for occupancy in the summer of 1985. In recent years, the lower campus was transformed by the construction of the new W.R. Davies Student Center, completed in 2012; Centennial Hall, completed in late 2013 and occupied in early 2014; the renovation of Garfield Avenue along the Chippewa River on lower campus; the renovation and building of new residence halls on upper campus; and the demolition of Katharine Thomas and Putnam residence halls on lower campus in fall of 2022, to build a new Science and Health Sciences building to replace L.E. Phillips Science Hall.

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Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

Women’s Community Center Records, 1973-1985

Collection

Identifier: University Historical Collection 357

Summary A compilation of records from the Women’s Community Center of Eau Claire, Wisconsin dating from 1973-1985. The collection documents the center’s collaboration efforts within the community and with UW-Eau Claire in its attempts to raise funding and awareness for abused women and children within the community. The collection holds documents showing the creation of the center, its by-laws, events, newspaper clippings, surveys, expense books, meeting minutes, and the dissolution of the center....

Dates: 1973-1985

Found in: Special Collections and Archives, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire

World War II Interviews, 1983

Collection

Identifier: University Historical Collection 258

Summary This collection contains interview materials of Wisconsin World War II Veterans from a UW-Eau Claire History 187 class from spring 1983. Bret Showers interviewed Elroy Huwe, who was in the 501st regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, about Operation Market Garden in Holland. Dan Johnson interviewed Orrin Grilley about jungle combat in the South Pacific. Peter L. Starke interviewed Harry R. Starke, a Captain in the CBI Theater and a hump pilot. Contains three cassette tapes of recorded...

Dates: 1983