St. 竞技宝app下载安装 has come a long way since it began as a seminary and school of commerce for young men in 1882.

Over more than a century, countless students destined to influence the world have walked our halls. 长久以来的传统扎根至今. 校园扩大了, 随之而来的是确保我们的学生, faculty and staff have the best environment in which to learn, 生活和工作.

Here's your chance to brush up on Ambrose's history, and for an all-inclusive look, please find Fr. George McDaniel's book on the subject in the SAU Library, "A Great and Lasting Beginning."

1882-1932:一个伟大而持久的开端

1882
St. 竞技宝app下载安装神学院正式在圣. Marguerite's School, now known as Sacred Heart, with 33 male students ages 12 - 23. 他们的学费? 一个月惊人的3美元.

1883
Bishop John McMullen dies of cancer less than a year after helping found Ambrose.

1884
玩球! A professor returns from dinner one evening with a new baseball bat, 标志着校园体育运动的开始. 尽管许多窗户被打破了, the excitement spurs the forming of two intramural teams, “学院派”和“大都会派”."

1885
Ambrose moves to the oak grove on 10 acres near Scott and Locust Streets. Bishop Cosgrove's first preference for the school was the land around 8th and Ripley Streets.

1885
Judge M.B. Gannon is the speaker at the first recorded commencement. 我想这个仪式现在会持续很长时间? 这条会一直持续到晚上."

1888
Ambrose's second building, "The Play Hall," is built as a gymnasium for indoor games.

1891
Founding faculty member Joseph Halligan leaves Ambrose to found the Davenport Daily Leader newspaper, 一直持续到1903年6月. The publication covers everything from armed mail robberies to theories on Jack the Ripper.

1895
竞技宝app下载安装雕像从欧洲来到校园. Over the years, the statue will endure being painted green on St. 并在1936年失去了一只手. 官方记录将损失归咎于一场严重的风暴. Rumor has it a student returning from a party climbed the statue to bid it goodnight.

1901
The Rev. 乌尔里希霍伯, 注定要成为全国公认的生物学家, 在竞技宝app下载安装注册物理专业, geology, 课程中增加了植物学和天文学. In addition to developing the pre-med program and publishing numerous journals, 豪伯将于1926年成为第五任总统.

1902
A fire breaks out in President Flannagan's apartment in Ambrose Hall. To preserve the building, students toss his burning couch out the window. The first record on campus of a bat, Ambrose's unofficial mascot, is detailed in a student's journal. 小提琴弓和帽子消除了烦恼. 今天，这些哺乳动物往往在戴维斯大厅被发现.

1909
The college's first recorded basketball game takes place in the gymnasium against the Augustana Vikings. 那场比赛没有得分记录, but in the coming years the Vikings would regularly trounce the Bees. 甜蜜的复仇? In 1947, the last football brawl between the two will end in a 26-6 win for the good guys.

1910
Perseverance and prowess are honored as the first varsity letters are awarded in baseball, 足球和篮球.

1914
你现在能听到我说话吗? The first electronic media comes to campus in the form of a wireless station. 原来的射程只有五英里, 但在空间站工作了一个月之后, 学生们能接收到远至弗吉尼亚的信号.

1918
A flu epidemic closes the school for six weeks as the healthy students are sent home. 函授班是为走读生开设的.

1919
召唤蜜蜂! 第一次捐赠活动开始了. 我们的目标? 建造戴维斯大厅. 总共468美元,当地的教区和城市承诺提供1万美元, but a farm depression means only half the payments are delivered.

1921
阁下你.A. Hauber brings the first automobile to campus, although he didn't drive. His experimental voyage to Muscatine for watermelons nearly ends in an accident when none other than a bee flies up his pant leg.
Ground is broken on Davis Hall, the campus's first residence hall. The building is constructed in two parts, half in 1922 and half in 1926.

1922
Homecoming traditions begin, with more than 400 alumni in attendance. 除了游行, freshmen start gathering firewood at the beginning of the year for the big bonfire. 在后来的岁月里, guards are posted around the clock to keep rivals from stealing the wood or burning it.

1927
北中学院协会认证竞技宝app下载安装.

1928
The faculty at Ambrose grows to include 15 priests and three lay teachers. Clergy members are required to document the specifics of their absences with the switchboard, 包括他们什么时候离开, 他们去了哪里，在做什么.

1933-1983:成年

1933
Sister Edith Cane is the first female student to be allowed to reside on campus. To prevent a commute from Ottumwa, Iowa, she is permitted to stay with the college domestic staff.

1934
Construction is completed on the mighty Mississippi's Lock and Dam 15, 使其成为美国最大的滚轴水坝.

1935
第一个校友会成立. 这一点也不奇怪——这家俱乐部的总部设在芝加哥. 但他们是支持小熊队还是白袜队?

1937
Bishop Rohlman begins the process of acquiring the property for the women's division at Marycrest College. The $50,000 piece of land is eventually donated to the college, which opens in 1939.

1939
With the country in the throes of the Depression, Ambrose begins the fund drive for a new chapel. 奇迹般地, the $400,在一个月内达到1000美元的目标, 虽然直到1952年才开始建造.

1942
G.I. 'Brose. The college is selected to host a V-12 cadet-training program for the U.S. 二战期间的海军. Loras College is also considered, but Ambrose wins out because of LeClaire Hall's swimming pool.

1947
G的创建.I. Bill attracts more students, and old military barracks are brought to campus for student housing. The barracks remain until 1960, when they are razed to make room for the Galvin Fine Arts Center. A total of 24 Ambrosians give their lives in the war effort. The NAACP chapter at Ambrose is formed, becoming the first NAACP chapter on a Catholic campus. Continuing Ambrose's social justice tradition, students protest for civil rights and labor issues.

1952
男人来自火星，女人来自仁慈...A partnership with the Mercy Hospital Nursing Program means women can earn a BS in Nursing from Ambrose. 女学生住在医院里.

1954
Marycrest is accredited, marking the school's independence from Ambrose.

1958
随着圣母升天中学的成立，圣. Ambrose Academy, the high school on campus long associated with the college, closes.

1959
大十，大问题. Ambrose football begins an 18-year hiatus due to financial problems. 随着电视的出现, spectators prefer to watch the Big Ten games instead of traveling to the local stadium.

1960
东厅，现在的罗尔曼，开放. It will come to be known affectionately by its male occupants as "Beast Hall" due to "uncontrollable showers,光秃秃的地板, 薄薄的墙壁和故障的空调, 直到2001年进行全面翻修.

1965
密西西比泥. As the river floods, classes are cancelled for two-and-a-half days so students can help sandbag. The mayor of Davenport commends the school for saving Davenport Water Works.

1967
像虫子一样舒适... Hayes Hall is completed for seminary students, though the building is 10 beds short. The faculty apartments are turned into triple rooms to accommodate all the residents.

1968
竞技宝app下载安装正式成为男女同校, with men and women taking classes together for the first time. However, the women have to commute until 1969 when South Hall (Cosgrove) opens. 问题? The building opens in sections due to a steel workers strike that lasts through the summer.

1970
With war protests heating up after the invasion of Cambodia, classes are suspended for the remainder of the academic year to allow students to go home and help protest. 门克总统甚至在洛克斯特街领导了一场抗议活动.

1971
The board of directors welcomes its first female member with the election of Margaret Tiedemann.

1972
接近只在马蹄铁中起作用. Details are finalized for Newman College, the proposed name of the merger of Ambrose and Marycrest. The course catalog is partially printed and the inter-campus bus, 猎蜂犬, 当交易被否决时，已经在运送学生了吗. 干杯! After the drinking age is lowered, a campus pub is opened in the Beehive area. Martinis and Manhattans are offered at the Last Class for 55 cents each.

1977
Ambrose enters the graduate education arena with the launch of the master of business administration degree program. 该项目于1979年获得全面认证.

1979
竞技宝app下载安装的父亲爱德华·卡蒂奇, 世界著名的书法家和艺术家, dies of a heart attack in his studio on campus at the age of 73. He leaves a large portion of his collection to John Schmits, 竞技宝app下载安装的艺术教授, who in turn donates these works to the university to start the Catich Gallery.

1983
The Fighting Bees have a new "hive" to call home with the construction of Lee Lohman Arena. 这个耗资300万美元的项目可容纳2200名球迷.

1984年至今:大学时代

1984
Computers make their debut on campus as 12 Apple 2e machines are installed in a "lab." A 25-minute video is produced to explain how to use the computers, 它们只有文字处理能力.
Phones are installed in student rooms and the campus gets an ATM machine.

1985
在岩石上...or not. The legal drinking age is raised to 21 years of age, much to the chagrin of underclassmen.

1987
击鼓声,请! 竞技宝app下载安装正式成为一所大学. Edward Rogalski is named the university's 12th president. 听着，听着! 奥普拉·温弗瑞和U.S. 参议员鲍勃·多尔访问校园作演讲. Dole comes in March to discuss his senatorial experience, while Winfrey addresses attendees of the Quad Cities Women's Day Conference at the Galvin Fine Arts Center in April.

1993
髋骨和腿骨相连. Biology at Ambrose is taken to a new level as the cadaver lab opens with 18 bodies for anatomy students to examine.

1994
Ambrose hops on the information super-highway by providing all students, 有电子邮件帐户的教职员工. The university won't develop its Web site until the following October.

1996
The old library moves from McMullen大厅 to the newly constructed library building, 有350名学生, faculty and staff lining up to pass part of the collection across campus. The 114 books passed represent each year of Ambrose's existence. 住房，我们有个问题. "Residence Row," as it will be dubbed in 2005, begins with the construction of Tiedemann Hall. 哈根·霍尔在2000年紧随其后, and bookends Bechtel and Franklin are created in 2004 and 2005, 分别.

1997
谁来叫医生! Classes start for the Doctor of Business Administration program, 南澳大学开设的第一个博士课程. The Master of Physical Therapy program will be converted to a doctoral program in 2002.

2004
The completion of the Rogalski Center upgrades life on campus with amenities that include a food court, wireless capabilities and spacious facilities to play games, 学习甚至参加学生舞会!

2005
富兰克林大厅开放，完成“住宅排”."

2007
最美好的告别! President Ed Rogalski retires after spending the past 20 years as president. He makes the record book as the longest serving president at a private university in the state of Iowa. 表示最热烈的欢迎! 琼·莱辛斯基修女成为第13任总统.

2008
Ambrose successfully secures unconditional reaccreditation by the Higher Learning Commission for 10 years – the maximum term granted. 一个新的综合使用的学术和住宅建筑, with 11 classrooms and suite-style living space for 96 students, is finished just in time for Ambrose to welcome its largest enrollment ever. 2013年8月，它被命名为麦卡锡大厅.

2010
The $11.5 million Center for Health Sciences Education at Genesis opens with generous support from its Health Services Foundation. This building serves as a brand-new home to our growing health services programs.

2012
North Hall was built on the northeast corner of Lombard and Harrison streets. 它有204个床位. 

2017
The largest single capital campaign in University history, nearly $18 million was raised to build a state-of-the-art, 80,000平方英尺的健康和娱乐中心.

2018
在竞技宝app下载安装大厅有一个祈祷空间 以纪念突然去世的. 约瑟夫·德弗朗西斯科，神学教授.

2020
On August 10, a derecho struck the Quad Cities and wiped out power on campus for more than 24 hours. 也是在那个秋天， McMullen大厅 re-opened with a 15,600 square-foot addition made possible by an $8.600万美元筹款活动. The academic hall houses the College of Business faculty and programs.