COLLEGE CHRONOLOGY
1960 - 1969

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• 1960
  
  • April: After months of planning by the Life Sciences Area and the Richmond Elks Club, planting of an arboretum begins along the north tributary of Rheem Creek between the Student Lounge and the Humanities Building.
  • September: The student newspaper changes its name to The Advocate.
  • September 23: The CCC football team plays an exhibition game against Diablo Valley College, the first meeting of these intra-district rivals. (CCC won.)

• 1961
  
  • February: Construction of the Women's Locker Room is approved.
  • The Western College Association grants CCC a full five-year accreditation, stating that "the quality of instruction is superior."

• 1962
  
  • March: A panel of students representing six campus clubs discusses the integration of on-campus clubs at a standing-room only meeting. Only one club has African American members.
  • April: Construction of the Library is approved.
  • May 28: The board of trustees asks Superintendent Drummond McCunn to resign over differences in educational philosophy.
  • December: Construction of Music Building is approved.

• 1963
  
  • October: The new CCC Library is dedicated. Built at a cost of more than $500,000, it has the capacity to hold 50,000 volumes.
  • Construction on the new "doughnut-shaped" Music Building begins.

• 1964
  
  • February 14: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King speaks in the college gym.
  • March: Karl O. Drexel is named District Superintendent.
  • Spring: George J. Faul resigns to become president at Monterey Peninsula College.
  • Fall: Raymond S. Dondero is named acting president.
  • November: Construction plans are underway for four new buildings: Vocational Arts, Humanities Annex, Physical Education, and administrative headquarters.

• 1965
  
  • The Symphony Series brings the San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland Symphonies and the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the Richmond Memorial Auditorium.
  • Enrollment reaches a record 6,204 students; 3,667 of them are full-time day students.
  • May: Construction of the Vocational Arts Building and Student Association addition is approved.
  • June: 302 students graduate.
  • December: Construction of the Liberal Arts Building is approved.

• 1966
  
  • The college has 149 instructors on its faculty.
  • There are 10 permanent buildings on campus and 15 temporary buildings.
  • The district is entirely debt-free. Its assets are more than $12 million.
  • The college has 22 student clubs, ranging from the Ski Club to the Society of Older Students, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans to Lambda Phi service organization, and the Auto Services Club.
  • May 3: Reverend Booker T. Anderson, a noted civil rights leader and head of the local NAACP chapter speaks on campus.
  • The CCC obelisk is added to the newly-designed Mission Bell Drive entrance.
  • A district bond issue fails just short of the necessary two-thirds vote.
  • November 21: Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael talks to the students.

• 1967
  
  • The college's address changes from 2801 Castro Road to 2600 Mission Bell Drive.
  • CCC offers its first African American course, History 123: The Negro in U.S. History.
  • January 11: Buckminster Fuller, scientist and inventor of the geodesic dome, lectures in the college gym.
  • February: Al Jarreau performs with the George Duke Jazz Trio at a Negro Arts Festival on campus.
  • March: The Student Council votes to build a new bookstore out of student funds. The new facility will cost $92,000.
  • The Jefferson Airplane, a popular local rock band, performs at the college.
  • September: The Liberal Arts Building, built at a cost of $950,000, opens.
  • September: Construction of the Physical Education Building is approved.
  • November: Construction of the Gym is approved.

• 1968
  
  • January: A new system of mandatory orientation for all new students is instituted.
  • March: Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver speaks on campus.
  • April: Dick Gregory, Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the U.S. presidency, visits the campus.
  • April: Construction of an addditon to the Humanities Building is approved.
  • June: 490 students graduate.
  • October 26: "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schultz speaks on campus and participates in a cartoon workshop.

• 1969
  
  • Robert L. Wynne is named president of the college.
  • April 11: Black Student Union members begin informal picketing, resulting in the creation of special on-campus programs.
  • September: CCC students join a state-wide strike and boycot class to protest the violent actions of Governor Ronald Reagan and Berkeley Police at a previous protest in People's Park.

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