Remembering SIUE's 'forgotten father'
Issue date: 10/12/07 Section: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
Many consider Harold W. See a "forgotten father" of SIUE. The following is a brief timeline of See's association with SIUE, beginning with his appointment as director of SIU's Southwestern Illinois residence centers and ending with his death in 2005.
Aug. 5, 1955: See named Director of the Belleville Residence Center in St. Clair County.
Sept. 25, 1956: See helped to found the Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Education (SWICHE).
March 1957: See ghostwrote a study showing need for a public higher education institution in the St. Louis Metro East.
July 1, 1957: See promoted to dean of newly founded Alton and East St. Louis Residence Centers.
April 1, 1957: See promoted to vice president of Alton and East St. Louis Residence Centers.
1957 to 1960: See advocates for a multi-million dollar bond issue for higher education to being construction for the public universities today known as University of Chicago and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
1960: The bond issue was passed, and the two universities could now be constructed.
Dec. 2, 1960: 250 students protested See's resignation on the Alton campus. One hundred-fifty students at the East St. Louis campus boycotted classes in protest. Eighty-four percent of the SIU faculty at both campuses signed a petition asking See to remain at SIU.
1961: See travels to Afghanistan to help construct a state university.
May 15, 1963: The Madison County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution requesting the newly constructed library on the Edwardsville Campus to be named in honor of See.
June 28, 1963: The SIU Board of Trustees unanimously voted to name the new library after Elijah P. Lovejoy, an abolitionist and pioneering Alton newspaper editor.
1992: See returns to SIUE for the first time since his resignation in 1963 at the invitation of President Early Lazerson to receive the President's Award of Merit.
September 5, 2005: See died in Durham, N.C., at the age of 85.
Aug. 5, 1955: See named Director of the Belleville Residence Center in St. Clair County.
Sept. 25, 1956: See helped to found the Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Education (SWICHE).
March 1957: See ghostwrote a study showing need for a public higher education institution in the St. Louis Metro East.
July 1, 1957: See promoted to dean of newly founded Alton and East St. Louis Residence Centers.
April 1, 1957: See promoted to vice president of Alton and East St. Louis Residence Centers.
1957 to 1960: See advocates for a multi-million dollar bond issue for higher education to being construction for the public universities today known as University of Chicago and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
1960: The bond issue was passed, and the two universities could now be constructed.
Dec. 2, 1960: 250 students protested See's resignation on the Alton campus. One hundred-fifty students at the East St. Louis campus boycotted classes in protest. Eighty-four percent of the SIU faculty at both campuses signed a petition asking See to remain at SIU.
1961: See travels to Afghanistan to help construct a state university.
May 15, 1963: The Madison County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution requesting the newly constructed library on the Edwardsville Campus to be named in honor of See.
June 28, 1963: The SIU Board of Trustees unanimously voted to name the new library after Elijah P. Lovejoy, an abolitionist and pioneering Alton newspaper editor.
1992: See returns to SIUE for the first time since his resignation in 1963 at the invitation of President Early Lazerson to receive the President's Award of Merit.
September 5, 2005: See died in Durham, N.C., at the age of 85.
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