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April 23, 2025

2003

The Performing Arts Center, an expansion of Garrison Theater, opens. Music practice rooms and classrooms, faculty offices, the Nancy Hart Glanville Music Library, and the MaryLou and George Boone Recital… Read More 2003

2002

Scripps celebrates its 75th anniversary with yearlong events.

2001

The Ellen Browning Scripps Reading Room is added to Denison Library. The room was an existing space redone to house collected papers, books, and personal letters of the College’s founder.

2000

Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Hall opens to students. Named for alumna Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler ’72, who provided key guidance to architects on this project in addition to supporting student scholarship programs, an endowed… Read More 2000

1998

Supreme Court Judge Sandra Day O’Connor is awarded the second Ellen Browning Scripps Medal.

1994

Quotes of famous women in the arts, letters, and sciences are chosen by a committee of students, faculty, and alumnae to line “Inscription Walk,” a pathway connecting the W.M. Keck… Read More 1994

1992

The W.M. Keck Science Department moves from its previous home in Steele Hall and the neighboring buildings. A two year renovation begins to develop a dedicated Scripps art center, and… Read More 1992

1990

Nancy Y. Bekavac, graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School, begins her term as Scripps College president, becoming the first woman fully appointed to this position.

1989

E. Howard Brooks assumes the Scripps presidency for a single year.

1984

Buildings and gardens at the center of Scripps campus are selected for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.