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UCF Memorabilia Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Originally named Florida Technological University, the University of Central Florida is a public multi-campus, metropolitan research university. The mission of the university is to offer high-quality undergraduate and graduate education, student development, and continuing education; to conduct research and creative activities; and to provide services that enhance the intellectual, cultural, environmental, and economic development of the metropolitan region, address national and international issues in key areas, establish UCF as a major presence, and contribute to the global community. It was founded in 1963 by the State of Florida; building began in 1967 and classes started in 1968. The founding president, Charles N. Millican was followed by H. Trevor Colbourn who started the university's football program. Steven Altman presided over the university from 1989-1991 and John C. Hitt was appointed in 1992.
The university's official emblem is Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, and the athletics logo is the Knight. Knightro, the mascot, represents one version of the Knight theme; both Knightro and the logo have changed over time.
The collection is arranged in thirteen series by subject.
Series I: Students, 1973-2008 contains items produced for student organizations and events.
Series II: Alumni, 1970s-2005 mainly holds objects relating to the Alumni Association, but it also contains a few items commemorating the activities and achievements of specific alumni.
Series III: Sports, 1970-2008 contains plaques, shirts, balls and other items commemorating the university's sporting activities and achievements. In addition, the series holds a variety of items produced for fans or to advertise particular athletics conferences.
Series IV: Homecoming, 1984-2008 holds objects produced by Homecoming Committees to celebrate this annual event.
Series V: Presidents: 1968-1995 contains items that belonged to the presidents, commemorate specific events, or are associated with the office of University President.
Series VI: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, 1968-2006 holds a variety of items that belonged to specific individuals or that were produced by faculty or staff organizations.
Series VII: Buildings, 1967-2004 contains items commemorating the construction and dedication of campus buildings and Research Park.
Series VIII: Colleges and Programs, 1974-2008 holds objects advertising the academic life of the university.
Series IX: Departments and Services, 1968-2006 contains items advertising or used by specific departments on campus.
Series X: Anniversaries, 1988-2008 holds objects produced to celebrate university anniversaries.
Series XI: University History, 1965-2007 contains pamphlets and objects documenting milestones in the university's history and some miscellaneous objects decorated with the university seal.
Series XII: Florida Technological University, 1968-1978 holds a variety of objects decorated with the FTU version of the seal or the original name of the university.
Series XII: Events, 1977-2006 contains items relating to specific university events.
This series holds T-shirts, buttons, frisbees, and similar items commemorating student activities from donations to the library to legalizing marijuana campaigns. Subseries contain objects relating to the Campus Activities Board, Student Government and the Late Knights events. Several objects concern Greek organizations. Items are arranged in alphabetical order.
The Alumni Association produced most of the items in this series for advertising, to commemorate events or to sell. The remaining items belonged to alumni and commemorate their achievements. Items are listed in alphabetical order.
This series holds objects relating to the university's sporting achievements including balls signed by early teams and winning teams, jerseys, plaques and awards. Items are arranged in alphabetical order by sport followed by fan and conference memorabilia and items for which no individual sport has been identified.
Arranged in chronological order, this series holds T-shirts and other items produced, mostly by the Homecoming Committee, to celebrate Homecoming. Spirit Splash is the pep rally held in the Reflecting Pond on the Friday before the Homecoming Game. T-shirts, rubber ducks and beach paraphernalia in the year's Homecoming theme are prized objects to remember this iconic university event. Homecoming 1988 items may be found in the Anniversary series as they are all embellished with the anniversary logo.
This series holds items that belonged to the university's presidents, commemorate presidents' events or were associated with the office of University President. They are arranged in alphabetical order by president's name followed by items not connected with an individual president.
This series holds objects commemorating the activities and achievements of faculty, staff and administrators at the university arranged in alphabetical order. Some items belonged to individuals; others relate to organizations, such as, the United Faculty of Florida. Charter faculty and staff all received a medallion commemorating their involvement in the creation of the university and examples of this item may be found here.
Arranged in alphabetical order, this series holds items concerning the construction and dedication of buildings on campus and in Research Park. The shovel from the original university groundbreaking, an original site plan for the campus and a piece of the original Theatre Tent may be found here.
This series contains items commemorating university academics arranged alphabetically. What If? was an information fluency enhancement campaign to provide students with the necessary skills to locate, interpret and use information.
This series holds T-shirts, pamphlets, key rings and similar items used by or produced for particular departments or services on campus. Objects are arranged in alphabetical order.
This series contains commemorative items from the university's major anniversaries and the Staff Council's 35th Anniversary. Items are arranged in three subseries by anniversary. The 25th anniversary subseries includes items produced for Hoemcoming 1988 as they are decorated with the anniversary logo.
Arranged in alphabetical order, this series contains pamphlets, flags, stickers, paperweights and similar materials that commemorate milestones in the university's history or represent the first of a particular item. In addition, various objects have the university seal or some representation of Pegasus on them. Early suggestions for the university's mascot, such as, the citronaut or Vincent the Vulture may be found here.
The varied objects contained in this series either have the FTU version of the Pegasus Seal or Florida Tech written on them. They have no significant association with a particular event or person.
This series holds hats, tickets, bags, bumper stickers and similar items produced for specific university events arranged in alphabetical order.