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WNMU celebrates 119th birthday
Updated: Friday, 03 Feb 2012, 3:19 PM MST
Published : Friday, 03 Feb 2012, 3:19 PM MST
SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) - Western New Mexico University is set to celebrate the 119th anniversary of the school's founding.
The school is scheduled Friday to honor its birthday with a large birthday cake and piñata. WNMU student also are slated to bury a time capsule adjacent to Hunter Hall that will rest for 50 years.
Celebrations include a new temporary exhibition entitled "Aspiration, Politics and Willpower: The People Behind the Formation of the Territorial Normal School at Silver City."
Established as a Normal School on Feb. 11, 1893, the university was known as New Mexico State Teachers' College until it changed to its current name in 1963.
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