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1984 - 1990
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Men’s Basketball takes the OAC title for the first time in 50 years

Phonathon generates $67,072 for Otterbein

Sigma Alpha Tau (Owls) Sorority celebrates its 75th anniversary

Cross Country team makes it to the Nationals

OC receives $250,000 grant from NEH

Towers Hall gets new windows as part of the new energy conservation program

Dr. C. Brent DeVore is installed as the nineteenth president of Otterbein College

Career Center moved to Barlow Hall

Kings Fraternity re-chartered

Historic costume collection unveiled

Judith Whitney gives $9,000 to help restore Philomathean Hall

Phonathon breaks records: $145,308

Weekend visitation in the dorms is permitted for the first time in 138 years

Cross Country team wins OAC championship

Tim Gregory wins Irene Ryan audition, first Otterbein student to do so

Equestrian Team wins national championship

$11 million endowment drive announced by Board of Trustees

Dick Reynolds named “District Four Coach of the Year”

Otterbein celebrates its 140th anniversary

Otterbein matches NEH challenge grant two years early
+/- grading system is instituted

William E. LeMay appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Singer and actress Marnie Nixon visits campus

Honda President Schoichiro Irimajiri visits campus

Dr. DeVore named one of Columbus Monthly’s “People to Watch in 1988”

Nationwide Insurance donates $500,000 to the King Hall renovation fund - it opens later that year as Dunlap-King Hall

Otterbein is given first Ohio Independent College Challenge Program award

Board of Trustees initiate ‘Otterbein 2000’ program

Weekday visitation is allowed in the dorms

Otterbein named one of 300 “Best Buys” in education by Barron’s magazine

New college bookstore opened

Tuition passes $10,000 per year