'Cat Facts - Spring 2004

1. Which university in Ohio started as a regional campus of Ohio University?
   
   
2. What was the Stocker Engineering and Technology Center formerly called?
   
   
3. Approximately how many meals does Ohio University Dining Services serve each year?
   
   
4. What two campus buildings were libraries when they first opened?
   
   
5. What is the claim to fame of Ohio University alumnus Steven Newman, BSJ '77?
   
   
6. How many years ago did the Ohio University football team make its debut?
   
   
7. What was the first tune set to dance by the entire Marching 110?
   
   
8. In what discipline did retiring University President Robert Glidden earn his degrees?
   
   
9. Why did the Athens Peace Coalition hold a demonstration on the College Green in 1991?
   
   
10. At the time they assumed office, what was the average age of the 19 men who have served as Ohio University president?

'Cat Facts answers

1. Shawnee State University.

2. Built in 1965, it was Crook Hall, a dormitory. It was renovated and rededicated in 1986 when renamed for the late C. Paul Stocker, BSEE '26 and HON '74, and his wife, Beth Kilpatrick Stocker, BS '28 and HON '03, supporters of the Russ College of Engineering and Technology.

3. Three million.

4. Chubb and Scripps Halls. Carnegie Library (now Scripps Hall) opened in 1905 for university and Athens communities. Edwin Watts Chubb Library (now Chubb Hall) opened in 1931 with approximately 75,000 volumes.
5. Newman, nicknamed "the Worldwalker," in the 1980s was the first person to walk around the world solo. The journey took four years.

6. 110 years ago.

7. "Ain't Been Good," which the band still performs.

8. Music.

9. To protest the Gulf War.

10. 46 years old. The youngest, James Irvine, was 29 when he became the University's second president in 1822.