The Business Building is opened January 15 for its first classes in the Spring semester. The building is officially dedicated on April 13, with a celebration with speeches from OSU President Burns Hargis, Dean Ken Eastman, Oklahoma City Architect and OSU alum Rand Elliott.

On September 5, in addition to celebrating 100 years of business education at OSU, the Spears School holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a new business building to be constructed just north of the current building.

A record 1,031 diplomas are granted at commencement exercises. Four students were in the first graduating class of the School of Commerce and Marketing in 1916, and the school has graduated students every year since.

The College of Business Administration is renamed the William S. Spears School of Business. Today, the college is known as the Spears School of Business.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, is the featured speaker during the Tulsa Business Forums and Executive Management Briefings in Oklahoma City.

The College of Business Administration and the Business Extension office begins its popular Tulsa Business Forums series. Two years later, the program expands to Oklahoma City with the Executive Management Briefings.

Enrollment peaks during the academic year with 5,267 full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Business Administration. In addition, full-time faculty reaches its highest numbers ever with 133 members.

The Department of Accounting becomes known as the School of Accounting, a long-sought goal by Wilton T. Anderson, who had been head of the department since 1961.

A tornado sweeps through Stillwater and the OSU campus on June 13, the College of Business Administration building in its path. Fortunately, there are no human casualties.

The Hall of Fame was established in 1964. First inductees were, Major General Ted Sanford, Leo E. Lowry, Harold R. Logan, Raymond A. Young and Alfred O. Savage.

The Ph.D. program in economics is the first doctoral program in the College of Business Administration. The first three students in the program were, from left, Richard W. Poole, Duck-Woo Nam and Robert L. Sandmeyer.

With the end of World War II, enrollment in the School of Commerce increases dramatically as soldiers return home, tripling between 1945 and 1946, and almost reaching 2,000 by 1947.

The faculty in the School of Commerce consists of 19 members.

Morrill Hall becomes the home for the College of Business Administration. The building was originally built in 1906 as the administration building for the ever-growing Oklahoma A&M College.

The School of Commerce and Marketing records the largest enrollment of any of the six schools on the campus, and it moves into its first official building, the Old Engineering Building.

The first bachelor’s and master’s degrees are granted by the School of Commerce and Marketing.

The School of Commerce and Marketing is established at Oklahoma A&M College.

Georgina M. Holt is hired as the first business teacher at Oklahoma A&M College.