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July 1 - Guy and Gail (Mom and Pop) March treated to a reception in honor of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, more than 600 attend [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 135]

July 1 - Soldiers begin arriving on campus for technical training. [Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1918, Fiscal Years 1916-17, 1917-18. pt.1, pg. 104]

July 1 - The school is now operating under the official name "South Dakota School of Mines and Technology". [Twenty-Eighth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1944, Fiscal Years 1942-43 and 1943-44, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Twenty-Ninth Biennial Session, 1945. pg. 97]

July 1 - Dr. Robert Slagle named first President.

Lieutenant James Paige Wright (EE '61) becomes the college's first Vietnam casualty Born: 3 Nov 1939 Custer, SD Died: 26 Jun 1964 Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 120]

June 12 - Gilbert Bailey lends a collection of more 5,000 fossil and mineral specimens, providing the foundation of the future Museum of Geology (third floor of new building will be fitted for display of the collections - Bailey shipped cabinets for school that fall.) [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 6]

June 10 - Professor William Phipps Blake of New Haven, Connecticut donates a collection of 41 scientific and technical books (thus giving the fledgling school its first library) [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 6]