150th Anniversary News & Information

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Chancellor "Magic" Mark S. Wrighton.

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Welcome to the Public Affairs group index page for news items related to Washington University's 150th Anniversary celebration. See below for news releases, media advisories, photo opportunities and other media information regarding the University's 150th celebration, including the 150th Birthday Party on Sept. 14, 2003. The year-long Sesquicentennial celebration culminates with Commencement on May 21, 2004.

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Woods give back to WUSTL by establishing new professorship Bill Bottom to hold new professorship in business July 22, 2004 -- Joyce and Howard Wood, both alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business, have created the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professorship in Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift of $1.7 million, which has been augmented with $300,000 from the University's Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. William P. Bottom, Ph.D., will be formally installed as the first holder of this professorship at a later date.

Illuminating night Olympic torch relay on campus ends WUSTL's sesquicentennial year June 18, 2004 -- Photo by Joe Angeles / WUSTL Photo Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton looks on as the Olympic torch is passed. Download When St. Louis philanthropist E. Desmond Lee carried the Olympic torch into Francis Field on June 17 as part of the 2004 Olympic Global Torch Relay, a 100-year journey was nearly complete. In 1904, St. Louis hosted the first Olympics in the Western Hemisphere, and the track and field events that year took place on Francis Field. Now, 100 years later, the Olympic flame again visited the historic playing field. Click here for complete information on all rededication and Torch events on campus.

Commemorating the Olympics Images from Francis Field rededication June 17, 2004 -- Mary Butkus/WUSTL Photo Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton delivers opening remarks during the rededication ceremony of Francis Field. Download Washington University hosted a ceremony June 16 recognizing the 100th anniversary of the 1904 Olympics at the University and the Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton hosted a rededication of Francis Field, the site of the 1904 Olympic track and field events. From Aug. 29 to Sept. 3, 1904, Francis Field and Francis Gymnasium, now registered historical landmarks, were the site of the Olympic Games — the 3rd Olympiad of the modern era and the first held in the Western Hemisphere.

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Olympic flame returns to first American host city ESPN and 81 others June 17, 2004 -- Photo by Joe Angeles / WUSTL Photo Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton looks on as the Olympic torch is passed. Download A century after becoming the first American city to host the modern-era Olympic games, St. Louis once again held the flame. The route included a pass by Washington University's Francis Field, rededicated as the site of the track-and-field events of the sweltering 1904 Games.