Corning Community College 50th Anniversary Timeline

1969
January 28	The Crier announced weekly publication.
February 21	Board of Trustees approved an A.A.S. degree in Glass Engraving.
February 17	Vincent Price, actor, spoke at CCC with 3,000 attendees.
May 6	A cross was burned on the lawn of SPARK director, Fred Jefferson.
May 9	Campus members marched down Spencer Hill Road in support of Mr. Jefferson.
July 29	Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.
October 14	Julian Bond, Georgia legislator and the 1968 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, spoke at CCC.
October 19	CCC students participated in a nationwide moratorium to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
November 13	Dr. Paul Erlich told convocation that the “U.S. Population Growth Was Ruining the World.”