50 Years Ago:

  • The Board of Trustees approved funding of just over $250,000 for a new science building (current Scholar’s Hall).

25 Years Ago:

  • From the Record-Eagle – “A vacant, wooded lot at Milliken Drive and Munson Avenue, known as the ‘smokehole’ or ‘enchanted forest,’ may become the site of Northwestern Michigan College’s $2 million art museum.

From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library