WJON — St. Cloud State University is celebrating its sesquicentennial this year. Once a month Archivist Tom Stemen comes on the News @ Noon Show to talk about the school’s long history.
Tuesday the topic was the Lemonade Concert and Art Fair. The very first event was held on July 9th, 1974 and it was held to dedicate the new campus pedestrian mall surrounded by Stewart Hall, Atwood, Centennial and Brown Hall.
It was called “Campus Mall-American Festival Day”. It wasn’t until the next year that the word “lemonade” was used in the title. Retired Atwood Director Margaret Vos says they wanted a name that would stick.
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