Then: When alumni in the 1980s gathered to do the "Chicken Dance" at the Dancing Under the Stars event, about 500 people routinely came back for the annual Reunion Weekend.

Then: Shown here in its first year, Penfield Library became the college's first standalone library -- albeit in the building now known as Rich Hall -- 50 years ago this spring. On a windy April 1961 day, a bucket brigade of faculty, students and administrators moved some 32,000 books down the hill from Sheldon Hall (then Old Main) to the new repository.

Then: The caption for this image from the 1958 Ontarian yearbook discussed the Student Art Exhibition Association's role in presenting shows throughout the year in the Hewitt Union main lounge.

Then: This image appearing in the 1937 Vocationist with the caption "Testing A Rewound Field" is a snapshot from the progression of one of Oswego's oldest programs.