1951
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Rose Shockley Wiseman
receives her master's degree in education at the College Park Commencement on July 9, 1951, one of the first three African-American students to receive Master's degrees at College Park. Commencement Day is the first time she visits campus, as she did her coursework at Bowie State University (College Park was still a segregated campus).
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Harold R.W. Benjamin resigns
as Dean of the College of Education. Henry Brechbill serves as Acting Dean until a new dean is chosen.
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Benjamin Spock, nationally-known expert in the field of early childhood education, speaks on campus at Ritchie Coliseum at the invitation of Edna McNaughton. Thousands of people attend.
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The Department of Human Development/Institute for Child Study graduates its first doctoral students: Birger Myksvall receives a Ph.D., and Walter B. Waetjen receives an Ed.D.
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The Workshop on Child Development and Education is renamed the Institute for Child Study Summer Workshop.
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The first graduate work is offered at the master's and doctoral levels in Nursery School Education.
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The Department of Industrial Education sponsors an all-day Industrial Education Conference, an annual summer conference aimed at developing leadership in the field.
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The name of the Nursery-Kindergarten program is changed to Childhood Education.
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The University Nursery-Kindergarten moves again to Building BB
in "The Gulch."
