Southern Methodist University Archives

So pleased to announce that more of the SMU News Digest have been digitized and posted in our Digital Collection. Catch up on the SMU News from the 1930s-1950s.....especially this issue on the opening of Fondren Library. https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/smup/id/175

Although it is well past April Fool's Day, please enjoy the Dinkey, SMU's newspaper for April 1.

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It's giving day at Southern Methodist University. As much as the Archives doesn't want to ask, we do *need* dollars for "Voices of SMU," our oral history project. Just a little bit goes to help us pay for interview transcripts.

Voices of SMU Oral History Project - SMU Giving Day

In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came and spoke to a standing-room-only audience in McFarlin Auditorium. Now, the MLK Day of Service happens every year to honor Dr. King's life and teachings by bringing our campus together through community service that helps to improve social issues. To end the last full week of Black History Month, let's throwback to the beginning of the semester, where a group of Mustangs lent a hand to local nonprofits to serve the Dallas community. Click the link in our bio to learn more about Dr. King's trip to SMU and to listen to his speech.

David Chang appeared in PBS show "Finding your Roots" and his maternal great grandfather, Sang Yang Woo, attended and graduated from Southern Methodist University in Theology in 1925. Mr Woo was a founding member of SMU's Cosmopolitan Club in 1922. This Club (like other Cosmopolitan Clubs at other universities) was a place both for international students to network with each other and for US students to learn about other cultures. SMU had a Cosmopolitan Club until 1969.

Southern Methodist University is getting a new super computing system, and all I can think about is when we got our first system in 1957. https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/stud/id/2193

So happy that our friends in the Bridwell are open again!

Bridwell Reopens Newly Renovated Library is Open for Business After two years of closure due to renovations and COVID-19, Bridwell Library re-opened on August 18. “We’re back and we’re better than ever!” said Anthony J. Elia, Director and J.S. Bridwell Foundation Endowed Librarian. A new welcome desk greets ...