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A class in Crosby Hall in the early 1950s
90 Years of Academic Excellence
Celebrating the School of Management's history
BY JACQUELINE MOLIK GHOSEN
Auspicious beginnings
The year was 1923. Calvin Coolidge was sworn
in as president of the United States following the
sudden death of President Warren Harding. In
medicine, the whooping cough vaccine was developed
and, in Hollywood, German shepherd Rin Tin Tin
became film's first canine star. Gasoline was 22 cents a
gallon and, thanks to mass production, the price of
Ford's Model T dropped to about $260.
In Buffalo, the UB Council's committee of
general administration established the evening session
of Business Administration and Journalism. The first
classes were held downtown in Townsend Hall on
Niagara Square.
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The first Bachelor of Science in business administration was awarded in 1927 and the council authorized a day division of the School of Business
Administration as a two-year course of study.
Instruction was held in Hayes Hall on the Main Street
Campus.
Edmund D. McGarry, professor of marketing
and economics, recalled those days in a personal
reminiscence he wrote in the 1950s.
"When I arrived in 1927, there were six of us on
the faculty of the business school: Dean Marsh, Dr.
Epstein, Dr. Lockhart, Professor Burton, a man
named Born and myself. We had an executive
committee, a library committee, a graduate committee
