The Freeman School capped off its yearlong centennial observance with a party and time capsule ceremony in front of Goldring/Woldenberg Hall.
The Freeman School brought its yearlong centennial observation to a close in October 2014 with a special
party and time capsule ceremony for students, faculty and staff.
Scheduled to coincide with the date of the business school’s very first class in October 1914, the celebration represented one last chance to highlight and honor the Freeman School’s 100-year history of business education.
The party kicked off at noon with food and refreshments, including kettle corn, Lucky Dogs and Roman Candy, in front of Goldring/Woldenberg Hall. At 3 o’clock, Dean Ira Solomon recalled some of the historical developments — like the opening of the Panama Canal — that led the city’s business leaders to call for the establishment of a state-of-the-art business college at Tulane University.
“The more foresightful folks here in New Orleans decided that the game needed to be picked up, that business skills and knowledge in the business arena needed to be elevated if New Orleans was going to continue to thrive,” Solomon said. “And the rest, as they say, is history. As I like to tell people,
the best is yet to come. You’re with us here today for the end of the first hundred years as well as the beginning of the next hundred years.”
The party featured a ceremony announcing the contents of a time capsule that will be sealed with instructions to open in 50 years.
After remarks from Freeman Student Government President Andrew Duplessie (BSM ’16) and Graduate Business Council President David Dowty (MBA ’15), Associate Dean Peggy Babin took the lectern to present the contents of a Freeman time capsule that will be sealed and put into storage for 50 years.
Over the preceding 12 months, the Freeman School solicited ideas from alumni for items to put into the capsule. Among the 50 items of memorabilia ultimately selected for inclusion were a copy of the school’s centennial commemorative book, A Century of Business Education, a Freeman School T-shirt, Freeman koozies, a bottle of Tulane-branded hot sauce, copies of The Times-Picayune and The New Orleans Advocate, menus from neighborhood restaurants popular with students, a 2014 Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide, Jazz Fest programs, a campus parking ticket and even an iPhone 5 to show future generations the ancient technology used by students circa 2014.
The ceremony wrapped up with a group photo in front of Goldring/Woldenberg Hall, and with that photo, the Freeman School’s Centennial Celebration, which began with a kickoff event in September 2013, officially came to a close.
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