The Board of Trustees votes to discontinue football. 1954 Dewar Hall opens as the first on-campus women's dormitory. 1958 Louis Armstrong performs before a capacity audience at Hartwick. Hartwick's Junior Year Abroad Program begins. Thornwood becomes the official residence of the president.
Students lobby for a stronger voice in student policies and regulations.
Hartwick College severs official ties with the Lutheran Church. The first computer, an IBM 1300, arrives on campus. 1969 WRHO - Campus Radio begins broadcasting. 1970 Hundreds of Hartwick students and faculty protest the war in Southeast Asia during a rally for peace. 1971 Hartwick College purchases Pine Lake .