1975
July 1

• Jill K. Conway assumes presidency.

• Inauguration

• Neilson Library fire.

• President Conway appears on cover of Time magazine as one of the "Women of the Year."

• Class of 1980 enters, the largest freshman class in Smith College history (781 students).
• Construction of Friedman Townhouse complex begins.
• "Response to the Future," a $40 million capital fund campaign begins.
• President Conway begins concentrated fundraising for Ada Comstock Scholars Program.

• Ainsworth Gymnasium Complex completed and dedicated.

• Dual Degree Programs in Liberal Arts and Engineering begin.
• Mellon Foundation gives grant for Project on Women and Social Change.
• Drew Hall renovated for admission office.
• Friedman Townhouse complex completed.
• Groundbreaking for library addition/renovation.

• Mott Foundation grant funds financial aid for Ada Comstock Scholars receiving AFDC.

• Construction begins on expansion and renovation of the Lyman Plant House.
• "Response to the Future" campaign reaches $40 million goal.

• President Conway on leave to work on her book, The Female Experience in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women.
• College institutes a Smithsonian Institute internship program.
• Sylvia Plath collection acquired.
• Renovated and expanded Lyman Plant House opens.
• Smith's heating plant converted from an oil burning system to a system that can burn coal, gas, and oil.

• Major expansion and renovation of Neilson Library completed.
• The Female Experience in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women, by Jill K. Conway published.

• Opening of renovated Alumnae Gymnasium, new home of the College Archives and Sophia Smith Collection.
• Celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of women's basketball at Smith.
• Pioneering infant care center opens at Smith College Campus School.

• President Conway announces plans to step down.
• College institutes academic minors.
• New Smith College logo and identifier introduced.
• New "state-of-the-art" Rolm telephone system installed.
• Two Smith students swim the English Chanel--the 85th and 86th women to complete the swim.
• Smith crew coach Kathy Keeler wins Olympic gold medal at the Los Angeles games.
• Admission office moves to newly acquired Garrison Hall on West Street.
• Tennis courts moved to new location near Field House to make way for new track and field facilty.

• Mary Maples Dunn, Dean of the Undergraduate College, Academic Deputy, and Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, named to succeed President Conway.
  
  

• Jill and John Conway Celebration Day on Smith campus.
• Senda Berenson, director of physical training at Smith from 1892-1911, elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
  
  

• Ground breaking for indoor track and tennis facility.