1960
5 December: The Northwest Association of Colleges and Universities gives CBC permanent accreditation status.
1961
CBC begins offering an accredited Registered Nurse Program.
1963
CBC's Football Team makes it to the Junior Rose Bowl.
1965
20 April: The library building, also referred to as an instructional resources center and which also included two large auditorium-size classrooms plus numerous smaller classrooms, was dedicated.
1966
Due to budgetary issues, the Symposium is cancelled. CBC's literary magazine, Gravel, publishes its first issue.
The Collegiate is named the fourth-best community college newspaper in Washington by a panel of judges at the University of Washington.
29 April: Fred S. Esvelt, former superintendent of Kennewick schools, is named President of CBC.
27 January: Vance Packard, author of Hidden Persuaders and The Status Seekers.
22 February: Hubert Herring, author of A History of Latin America, speaks on "Lights and Shadows in Latin America."
5 March: The Gateway Singers play at the Pasco High auditorium, sponsored by ASCBC.
20 April: Marcel Hillaire, German-born French entertainer, presents "The Smile of France," a dramatic-humorous excerpt from French literature.
17 May: Norman Dyhrenfurth returns for a second visit to CBC.
29 May: Washington Governor Albert Rosellini speaks at commencement.
October: Helen Kirkpatrick, foreign correspondent, speaks at the Pasco High Auditorium, sponsored by ASCBC.
November: Malcolm Muggeridge, British humorist and editor of "Punch" magazine.
12 January: Helen and Frank Schreider, mid-20th century explorers known for traveling by amphibious jeep, return for a second visit.
February: William Hines, journalist.
17 February: Danish Adventurer Jorgen Bisch shows a film on Outer Mongolia and Borneo at the Pasco High auditorium.
February: Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, British colonial administrator, speaks at the Pasco High auditorium, sponsored by ASB.
28 March: Buddy DeFranco, acclaimed clarinetist, appears as a soloist with the CBC Stage Band.
17 April: Sculptor Fiore de Henriquez presents a lecture entitled "In Love with Clay."
4 October: World traveler Donald Grant appears at Pasco High School to discuss "Khruschev Plans Ahead for Russia."
12 October: Richard Gump, culturalist, author of "Good Taste Costs No More," and third-generation owner of Gump's store.
10 November: Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, nuclear physicist, internationally known scientist, and author of The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon and Man and Space: The Next Decade.
27 March: Indira Gandhi visits the campus.
9 May: As part of Lyndon B. Johnson's visit to the Tri-Cities to dedicate the Ice Harbor Dam, he was entertained at a luncheon program put on by community members as well as CBC students and personnel, including Venetta Stappler.
16 April: Kenyon J. Scudder, well known penologist and Director of Field Services of the Osborne Association, gives a talk entitled "Prisoners are People."
17 October: Folk singer Elmerlee Thomas (formerly of The Gateway Singers) and her guitarist, Jim Wood.
8 November: W. Ian Thomas, evangelist, and founder of the Torchbearers Bible schools, presents a lecture on "The Christian Challenge today."
12 November: Scottish conductor Reginald Stewart presents "Music for Kings."
7 December: American radio and television commentator Mark Evans Austad shows his film, "Washington State -- Land of Contrasts," sponsored by Columbia Basin Outdoor Advertising Company.
4 February: János Horváth, Hungarian refugee and economics professor at Whitman College, speaks to students on "Social Scientists Analysis of Eastern European Transitions."
19 February: Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen, American jazz trumpeter, plays in a jazz festival with CBC students.
28 February: Dr. Eleanor Lansing Dulles, American author and professor, speaks on "The United States and the Challenge of the Common Market" in the CBC gymnasium.
11 March: Zelma Watson George, U.S. delegate to the United Nations and actress, speaks on the United Nations in the CBC gym.
3 April: Armand Spitz, planetarium designer, speaks to the students in the CBC gym.
8 April: Farouk A. Mawlawi, director of the Arab Information Center in San Francisco, is a guest lecturer on the Arab Bloc in the United Nations.
20 September: Catherine May, U.S. Representative from Washington and later the first woman elected to Congress in the state of Washington, speaks to Tri-City Young Republicans in the CBC music room.
4 October: Senator Henry M. Jackson speaks on civil rights and the problems facing Congress.
21 October: Carey McWilliams, editor of newsmagazine The Nation, speaks to students in the CBC gym.
4 November: T.H. White, author of The Once and Future King, speaks to CBC students on "The Pleasures of Learning."
17 February: Bud & Travis, folk singers, play at the Pasco High School gym under the auspices of ASCBC.
28 February: British actors Hannah Watt and Roderick Lovell present "Men, Women, and Love" in the Pasco High School auditorium, sponsored by ASB.
4 March: The Four Preps appear in concert at the Pasco High gymnasium under the auspices of CBC ASB.
5 March: Eddy Gilmore, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for news reporting in 1947, speaks as part of the CBC lecture series.
16 March: John H. Rousselot, a U.S. Representative from Southern California, and then-Western States Governor for the John Birch Society, speaks at CBC.
14 April: P.N. Menon, Indian General Consulate for the Western U.S., gives a speech entitled "India, China, and the Future of Asia."
5 May: Pulitzer Prize winner Reg Manning, internationally syndicated cartoonist, presents, "I Draw My Own Conclusions" in the CBC gym, sponsored by CBC ASB.
5 May: Washington's then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Daniel J. Evans speaks to students under the sponsorship of the CBC Young Republicans.
7 October: Folk ensemble "Stars of Tomorrow," including Stan Wilson, plays on campus.
13 October: Walter C. Dowling, formerly a consultant on international affairs with the Ford Foundation and ambassador to West Germany from 1959 to 1963, opens the CBC lecture series.
29 October: Philip Hanson, a monologist, presents a show entitles "Villains and Fools" in which he plays 25 Shakespeare characters, in the CBC gymnasium
13 January: Dr. Robert A. Scalapino speaks on "The Crisis in American Far East Policy" in the CBC gymnasium.
15 February: Dame Alicia Markova appears at Pasco High School to give a lecture on "The World of Ballet" as park of the CBC lecture series.
29 March: Leon Volkov, top Soviet affairs expert for Newsweek magazine, speaks on "The Intellectual Ferment Behind the Iron Curtain" in the CBC gym.
12 April: Dr. Richard McLanathan, fine arts critic, gives a talk to CBC students and faculty on the subject, "Looking at Modern Art."
22 April: Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under the Eisenhower administration and Director of the Offices of Defense Mobilization from 1953-57, headlines the CBC symposium, themed "Peace and the Atom."
28 October: Johnny Mathis & The Younger Generation play at Pasco High on behalf of ASB.
3 November: ASB purchases 100 tickets for students to see guitarist Celedonio Romero, sponsored by the Community Concert Association and held in the Kennewick High auditorium.
10 November: Harry Golden, author, editor, and publisher, speaks on campus as part of the CBC lecture series.
9 November: Washington Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson speaks to CBC students in the gym and later to the Young Democrats.
29 January: The Sonics play a dance in the student lounge sponsored by CCUN, Talons, Mid-Management, and Tektrons clubs.
21 February: Stringfellow Barr, lecturer and historian, gives a talk entitled "The Man in the Gray Flannel Toga," a comparison of the Roman Empire and contemporary America. Barr appeared under CBC's open policy for campus speakers, despite a request by the local chapter of the American Legion to have his engagement cancelled because of his alleged ties with communist-front organizations.
10 March: Dr. Donald W. Cox, science writer, speaks on "The Scientist's Rise to Power." Cox was the author of several books abou tthe space program and was in charge of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's first traveling demonstration unit.
11 April: George C. Enninful, a young African journalist, presents "An African Looks at America," as part of the ASB lecture series.
19 April: Glenn Yarbrough performs a concert at the Kennewick High School auditorium, sponsored by the CBC Deserets club. Biff Rose, comedian, also performs.
21 & 22 April: R. Buckminster Fuller and Dr. Alice Mary Hilton present talks on the subject "Abundance in the Atomic Age" as part of the CBC symposium.
5 October: Marion Williams, prominent jazz and gospel singer, performs in the original jazz musical, "The Soul in Jazz," at the Pasco High School auditorium, sponsored by ASB.
17 October: Baroness Maria von Trapp gives a lecture sponsored by the ASB.
27 October: Chad & Jeremy, a British musical duo, perform at the Pasco High Auditorium under the auspices of ASB.
1 November: Richard Armour, internationally known humorist and satirist, speaks as part of the ASB lecture series.
19 January: Dr. G.M. Gilbert, internationally known psychologist, advisor to the Peace Corps, and author of The Nuremberg Diary.
2 February: The Lettermen, an American pop vocal trio, perform at Pasco High School under the auspices of CBC ASB.
10 February: Choreographer Erick Hawkins and composer Lucia Dlugoszewski lecture on the history of modern dance and on music, respectively, as part of the ASB lecture series.
14 April: Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower, lectures on "Trade and Treason" in the Pasco High Auditorium.
21 April: Dr. Julius Stone, authority on international law, speaks on "International Law and the Quest for Survival" in the CBC student lounge, sponsored by the CBC chapter of the Collegiate Council to the United Nations, the Benton-Franklin Bar Association, and the Tri-Cities Chapter of the UN Association.
18 May: The Association plays at the Pasco High gym, sponsored by CBC ASB.
23 May: A U.S. Department of State diplomatic team visits campus to conduct a day long program on U.S. Foreign Policies, hosted by the ASCBC. The State Department officials included Fisher Howe, James Killen, Samuel Wise, Jr., and Bernard Coleman.
12 October: Dr. Samuel I Hayakawa, semantics expert at San Francisco State College, is a guest speaker at the CBC Symposium centered on individual responsibilities in modern society. His talk is entitled "The Effects of Mass Communications on American Society."
31 October: The Sandpipers perform at the Kennewick gym under the auspices of CBC ASB.
1 November: Science fiction writer and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke speaks on "Life in the Year 2001" as part of the ASB Lecture Series.
2 February: Erskine Caldwell, author of God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road, gives a lecture entitled "Changing Writers: Changing Times."
17 February: The 5th Dimension play a concert at the Richland High School gym under the auspices of CBC-ASB.
8 March: Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans visits campus and speaks to several students in the main ASB lounge.
8 April: Malcolm Muggeridge, British satirist, returns to CBC for a second appearance, sponsored by ASB.
27 April: Comedian Pat Paulsen appears at the Richland High gymnasium, sponsored by ASB.
3 October: Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans returns to campus for a second visit.
3 October: Saul D. Alinsky, American community activist and political theorist, speaks as part of the ASB lecture series.
14-15 November: "Conflict of Values in American Life" is the topic of the year's Symposium. Guest speakers include Dr. Max Lerner, a syndicated columnist for the New York Post; Dr. Charles S. McCoy, a professor of Religion in Higher Education at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California; Donald Haley, Attorney At Law and the First Vice President of the NAACP in Seattle, WA; Dr. Gordon Orians, Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington, and Dr. Patrick Morgan, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. The Symposium also includes an art exhibit by Richard Lowell, a well-known Oregon artist, in the ASB Lounge.
26 November: Dr. C. Northcote Parkinson, British professor, author, historian, and journalist, speaks at the Uptown Theatre, sponsored by the Center for Graduate Study in Richland in cooperation with the Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company, on "The Science of Politics."
22 February: The Springfield Rifle play a dance for CBC students and their guests.
14 March: B.J. Thomas, popular recording artist, appears in a combination concert-dance with The Sonics, sponsored by CBC.
24 April: The Bards, a rock group from Moses Lake, plays a dance in the CBC lounge.
30 April: Mark Lane, American attorney, legislator, and civil rights activist, speaks on "The Assassination of President Kennedy and the Two Investigations: The Warren Commission and Jim Garrison's Inquiry." (Note: Lane filled in as lecturer after a cancellation by pop artist Andy Warhol, who was still recovering from a gunshot wound received the previous year.)
29 May: Horace Julian Bond, American social activist and civil rights leader, speaks at the Red Lion, sponsored by the Washington Democratic Council.
23 October: The Righteous Brothers perform on campus, sponsored by CBC ASB.
23 & 24 October: CBC holds a symposium under the theme of "The Ordering of National Priorities: A Crisis In Evaluation." Guest speakers included Joseph Lyford, expert on urban and rural problems; Charles Evers, civil rights activist; Colonel John "Shorty" Powers, military spokesman and promoter of the American Space Program; and Senator Al Gore.
8 November: The New Hope Singers perform at Carmichael Junior High School in Richland, WA, under the auspices of ASB.
3 December: The Grass Roots perform in the Col-High Gym, sponsored by CBC clubs.
509-542-4887 library@columbiabasin.edu 2600 N 20th Ave, Pasco, WA. 99301