Historic Stories RSS Feed

10/21/2015
MUM50 - Early Financial Support Boosted Miami Middletown Creation
This is the twelfth in a series of historical vignettes tracing the work of the community and Miami University that led to the opening of Miami University Middletown in September 1966.
10/07/2015
MUM50 - Scholarships
For the 2015/2016 academic year over $700,000 in scholarship funds were available to assist Miami Regional students, with more than $380,000 in 37 funds specifically designated for Middletown Campus students. This is the first of a series of articles highlighting many of the scholarships that have played such an important role in helping Miami Middletown students achieve their academic and career goals.
09/16/2015
MUM50 - MUM Launched Wave of Regional Campus Construction
This is the twelfth in a series of historical vignettes tracing the work of the community and Miami University that led to the opening of Miami University Middletown in September 1966.
08/26/2015
MUM50 - Middletown Took Advantage When State Committed to Expand Higher Ed
This is the eleventh in a series of historical vignettes tracing the work of the community and Miami University that led to the opening of Miami University Middletown in September 1966.
08/05/2015
MUM50 - Armco Builds A Park
This is the tenth in a series of historical vignettes tracing the work of the community and Miami University that led to the opening of Miami University Middletown in September 1966.
07/15/2015
MUM50 - Armco Donation to Miami Creates Model for Ohio Branch Campuses
When Armco’s Board of Directors voted on January 29, 1963, to donate land to Miami University for the creation of a campus, it helped create a model Ohio would follow for establishing branch campuses throughout the state.
06/24/2015
MUM50 - The Committee Gets to Work
One month after the committee chaired by Evelyn Day and Ewing Taulbee began, one sub-committee gathered at the office of Herman Lawrence to address the question of what the community wanted and needed.
06/10/2015
MUM50 - The First Committee
Carefully preserved among the papers of Earl Thesken is a page from his desk calendar dated May 21, 1962.
05/13/2015
MUM50 - Middletown Campus Champion Logan T. Johnston
One of the key community leaders who worked to make Miami University Middletown possible was Logan T. Johnston.