{"id":1890,"date":"2017-10-10T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2017-10-10T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:19:39","slug":"golden-anniversary-geography-the-seton-hall-campus-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2017\/10\/golden-anniversary-geography-the-seton-hall-campus-in-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Anniversary Geography &#8211; The Seton Hall Campus in 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the current architectural-centered projects taking place on campus including the Student Center addition and the new Welcome Commons, the look, feel, and function of Seton Hall will be enhanced event further once these projects are completed in the near future.\u00a0 As with any new structure, each has its own evolving story and functionality as part of the &#8220;brick and mortar&#8221; story of Setonia history from 1860 to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1893\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1893\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2017\/10\/1968-aerial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"288\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial View of the South Orange Campus, 1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking back 50 years ago, the view of the campus is different than it is today as the school continued to make additional blueprints as the evolving need for various structures including classroom buildings, dormitories, and administrative centers took shape and form.\u00a0 In 1968, the year full Co-Education occurred on the South Orange campus and the establishment of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), a new Humanities Building (now known as Fahy Hall in honor of Father Thomas Fahy, former President of Seton Hall from 1970-76)\u00a0 featuring needed classroom and office space for the College of Arts &amp; Sciences in particular was completed and complimented other structures on the grounds stretching from Ward Place to South Orange Avenue.\u00a0 Along with edifices such as Fahy Hall still in use, those which have replaced or modified over the semesters including McLaughlin Library, Parking Lot (in front of Walsh Gymnasium), the Veterans\/R.O.T.C. Barracks, and others hold just as many milestones for those who have a connection to these spaces over the course of time and memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1895\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1895\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2017\/10\/1968-campusmap1-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2017\/10\/1968-campusmap1-1024x660.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2017\/10\/1968-campusmap1-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2017\/10\/1968-campusmap1-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campus Site Key for Seton Hall University, 1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about University History during the late 1960s and any time period, please feel free to contact us via e-mail at &#8211; archives@shu.edu or by phone at &#8211; (973) 275-2378.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the current architectural-centered projects taking place on campus including the Student Center addition and the new Welcome Commons, the look, feel, and function of Seton Hall will be enhanced event further once these projects are completed in the near future.\u00a0 As with any new structure, each has its own evolving story and functionality as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2017\/10\/golden-anniversary-geography-the-seton-hall-campus-in-1968\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Golden Anniversary Geography &#8211; The Seton Hall Campus in 1968&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seton-hall-history","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}