Timeline: 1942-1966 – Gould Library

Date	Event
1942	Japanese-Americans evacuated from West Coast. Carleton agrees to accept interned Nisei students continuing their wartime educations.
1942	Carleton buys land near Stanton to build an airport to be used for military training.
1942-1945	War brings major disruptions in campus life. As male enrollment plummets, women occupy virtually all important student offices and, in 1944-45, the previously male West Side dorms. In 1943 and 1944 Carleton hosts several Army units, which receive instruction in engineering, aeronautics, meteorology, and modern languages. Altogether over 1,500 Carleton men and women serve in the armed forces during WWII; 55 men lose their lives.
1943	Male enrollment drops fro 455 to 93. Wally Ulrich '45 wins NCAA men's golf championship tournament.
1943	Dean Lodge, off-campus housing for women since 1919, burns in a fire.
1945	Popular Carleton Geology Prof. Laurence M. Gould, a University of Michigan alumnus and noted polar explorer, succeeds President Cowling, who retires after leading Carleton through two World Wars and a Depression. Gould had been a member of the faculty since 1932.
1946-1950	Influx of veterans pushes enrollment over 1,000.
1947-1955	Pine Hill Village, student housing for married veterans, located across Lyman Lakes.
April 1948	Student-run radio station KARL begins broadcasts. (Changed to KRLX in 1974/75.)
May 1948	The World premier of Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle is performed in Nourse Theater by the Carleton Players, directed by Henry Goodman.
1948	Comprehensive exams are introduced for seniors.
1948	Students vote to abolish last of the literary societies.
1949	The first African-American student to earn a degree from Carleton graduates.
1949	Dedication of Boliou Memorial Art Building.
1949	The Carleton-in-China program ends as communist China is closed to such endeavors. In 1951 a Carleton-in-Japan program is initiated, first at a school in Osaka, later at Kyoto's Doshisha University.
1950	"Knights" adopted as varsity sports team names.
1953	Dedication of the remodeled Willis Memorial Union. (It actually opened in 1954)
1954	The Carleton's Airfield is sold.
1956	Dedication of the new Library.
1957	Scoville Memorial Library is remodeled and rededicated as Scoville Hall.
1958	Musser and Myers halls are erected.
1958	Student enrollment permanently exceeds 1,000.
1958	Carole Pushing '61 win the NCAA women's golf crown.
1958	Carleton joins with nine other liberal arts institutions to form the Associate Colleges of the Midwest. Programs sponsored by ACM will greatly increase the range of off-campus programs, both foreign and domestic, available to students in future years.
1959/60	Founding of the literary quarterly The Carleton Miscellany.
1960	Carleton begins a student exchange program with Spelman College, Atlanta's historically Black liberal arts college for women.
1960	The first Black female student to earn a degree from Carleton graduates.
1961	Dedication of Olin Hall of Science.
1961	Williams Hall is razed.
1962	Carleton's fifth president, John W. Nason '26, is selected after Laurence M. Gould announces his desire to return to classroom teaching in Arizona. Nason is the first Carleton alumnus to be named president. A former Carleton Rhodes Scholar, former president of Swarthmore College, and president of the Foreign Policy Association, Nason will see the College through the balance of the turbulent 60s.
1962	Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller makes a legendary appearance during the fourth quarter of a football game, dangling from a helicopter by a 50 foot chain.
1962	A new men's dorm is occupied in September. In 1963 it is named for Horace Goodhue, Jr.
1963	A group of students found the Reformed Druids of North America, initially as a protest against mandatory chapel. Carleton's religious requirement is abolished in 1964.
1964	Carleton's dairy herd is auctioned off.
1964	Carleton establishes the Asian studies program.
1964	Dedication of a new men's gymnasium, later known as West Gym
1965	A Carleton minority groups scholarship program is instituted.
1965	Carleton's Computer Date Night receives national publicity.
1965	Dedication of a women's gymnasium, the Elizabeth Cowling Recreation Center.
1966	The College hosts its first-annual summer ABC (A Better Chance) program, through which promising teens from underprivileged backgrounds prepare for entry into top high schools. Carleton students serve as resident tutors for this program, which continues into the 70s.