Sesquicentennial Summer Celebration, August 21-22, 1999 |
| UW-Madison swung its doors wide open to more than 20,000 people for this special community weekend celebration. The two-day program of more than 80 interactive, educational and entertaining activities throughout campus featured the health sciences, agricultural and life sciences, athletics, and the arts and humanities. This was the first campus-wide open house the university has ever thrown for the community. |
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| A behind the scenes tour at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital |
Interactive learning as a hand is plunged into a cow stomach in the Stock Pavilion. |
| The program kicked off Saturday night with Hot Summer Nights--Extra Spicy!, a cultural and educational program at the Elvehjem Museum of Art and Memorial Union Terrace. On Sunday, the program continued with a Recreational Fitness and Health Fair featuring a family run/walk, soccer clinic, and a series of sports and health demonstrations. |
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| A shirt is decorated with autographs at the Soccer Clinic. |
Former World War II motorized ducks on Lake Mendota. |
| From Cows to Wows! explored the agricultural and life sciences, and a Football Family Fun Day featured the 1999 Rose Bowl champion Badger football program. Plenty to do at the U! showcased cultural and educational programs on lower campus from the Union to the Carillon Tower to the Kohl Center. All throughout Sunday and at various locations on campus, walking and bus tours (the Original Wisconsin Ducks, for example, offered tours and donated some $8,000 to the scholarship fund), and open houses rounded out the program. |
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| A medical flight tour of the hospitalçs critical care helicopter. |
A hands on discovery. |
| The evening finale consisted of a three-hour live statewide broadcast of the 20th anniversary of the Judy Rose's Simply Folk radio program over Wisconsin Public Radio to an audience of 15,000 people. During the musical group intermissions, Jack Holzhueter, Wisconsin State Historical Society historian, presented stories about how the university has enriched the state for the past 150 years. |
| Text and photos assembled by Ryann Petit-Frere. |
| For more information, contact
Tom Zinnen at 608/265-2420 or
zinnen@biotech.wisc.edu; or Ken Smith at 608/262-8637 or
kennethsmith@wisc.edu; or see http://www.science.wisc.edu
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