UH Timeline

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• Coach Bill Yeoman
  Bill Yeoman coaching the University of Houston football team.
• Carin Cone
  Olympian Carin Cone is featured as an Outstanding Campus Personality in The Houstonian for her achievements in swimming. This edition of the Houstonian, published in 1960, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston.
• Panel 17
• KUHT filming staff at work
  Photograph of the KUHT News production staff at work.
• Hugh Roy Cullen standing in front of the Ezekiel Cullen Building
  Hugh Roy Cullen standing in front of the Ezekiel Cullen Building. Cullen gave more than $11 million to both the University of Houston and Houston hospitals. In 1947, he established the $160 million Cullen Foundation to provide for continual aid to education and medicine. Cullen served in many capacities during his career, including Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Houston, Vice President of the Texas World Fair Commission in 1939, and Director of the Boy Scouts of America.
• Frontiersmen
  This page from The Houstonian features a group portrait of The Frontiersmen, a group founded in 1948 to promote school spirit. This edition of the Houstonian, published in 1949, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston.
• Philip G. Hoffman with Shasta
  Philip G. Hoffman posing with Shasta, University of Houston's live cougar mascot. Philip Guthrie Hoffman served as the fifth president of the University of Houston. He was appointed to this position in September 1961, and was officially inaugurated on April 27, 1962. Hoffman served as president until 1977, when he became president of the University of Houston System. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1979.
• UH Class Ring
  Panel 12
• Early UH Football
  The University of Houston joined the Lone Star Conference, its first official intercollegiate sport conference. A crowd of 11,000 arrived at HISD’s Public School Stadium (later renamed Jeppesen Stadium) on September 21, 1946, for UH’s first football game. The Cougars lost 13-7 to Southwestern Louisiana Institute, but the loss by no means dampened the fans’ Cougar spirit.
• Registration of veterans at UH
  With the war at an end, returning servicemen and servicewomen enrolled at the university to take advantage of the G.I. Bill and enrollment jumped almost five fold, to over 10,028 students, more than 6,000 of them veterans. Some came to UH because they had trained here during the war while others were attracted to Houston’s booming job market. Many of the veterans moved into Trailer Village, a group of 320 residential trailers provided by the Federal Works Agency. Others lived in one of 350 tiny apartments in Veteran’s Village created from surplus barracks from Ellington Field and Camp Wallace.
• First Board of Regents at the University of Houston
  This page from The Houstonian features a group portrait of the University of Houston's first board of regents. This edition of the Houstonian, published in 1945, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston.
• Navy training
  With the coming of World War II, the university adapted its offerings to be part of the overall defense efforts. The United States Navy Reserve Vocational School began training sailors in 1941. The United States Navy Electricity and Radio Material School (NERMS) opened in the newly built recreation building in 1942. Eventually the university had three Navy training units and a small Army Air Corps unit. As World War II began to wind down, UH enrolled its first returning veterans under the newly created Selective Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944 or G.I. Bill of Rights.
• Student dancers and musicians perform onstage during Frontier Fiesta
  Students perform as dancers and musicians onstage during Frontier Fiesta.
• Aerial view of UH campus in 1939
  Aerial view highlighting the Roy G. Cullen Building. When classes moved to the new campus, the university’s 2,067 students attended classes in the Roy Gustav Cullen Memorial Building, named for Cullen’s son who had died in an oilfield accident. The building is thought to be the first American higher education building with air conditioning.
• H. R. and Mrs. Roy Cullen III photographed with the University of Houston administration
  H. R. and Mrs. Roy Cullen III photographed with the University of Houston administration.
• Portrait of E. E. Oberholtzer
  Headshot of E. E. Oberholtzer. From 1924 to1927, Oberholtzer served as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District. With the formation of the Houston Junior College in 1927, he was named president. He remained president through the change from a two-year to a four-year institution in 1934 and continued until shortly before his death in 1950.
• Formal portrait of Shasta, UH's mascot
  Portrait of University of Houston cougar mascot, Shasta.
• University of Houston at San Jacinto High School
  The University of Houston began as Houston Junior College, with 232 students enrolled in June 1927. Students attended evening classes in the San Jacinto High School building (now part of the Houston Community College campus) on Holman Avenue. This remained the University's home until its move in 1939 to the current campus.