10 years ago…
UW professor and poet Craig Arnold was reported missing on a remote Japanese island while hiking up a volcano. He was later presumed dead. ● About 1070 graduated from the University of Wyoming. ● A state Department of Health lab reassured Wyomingites it had not confirmed any cases of swine flu.
30 years ago…
Wyoming Gov. Mike Sullivan said the state’s oil wells and coal mines could end up as museums if nuclear power proved a viable alternative. ● Students nicknamed the Student Health Service the “Student Death” after a budget cut of nearly 50% resulted in severe staffing shortages. ● In five years, Wyoming jumped from 25th to second place in national rankings for high school graduation rates, with 89.2 percent graduating.
50 years ago…
The city installed a new traffic light on 15th Street between Ivinson and the “new” dorms. ● The cover of the mid-May BI featured a photo of 19 girls in swimsuits: “The ‘69 BI bod squad forms a sundial so that UW male students may chick off the days remaining until summer.” ● Miss University of Wyoming, freshman math and computer sciences student Barbara Young, planned to compete in the Miss Wyoming Pageant in Cheyenne in June.
