🎉 💛💙 Happy 124th Birthday NAU! 💙💛 🎉⁠ Founded in 1899, we have gone through 4 name changes, 17 presidents, and countless Lumberjacks 🪓⁠ Swipe ➡️ for an overview of our history ⁠ ⁠ 📜 nauclinelibrary's Peter Runge holds the founding document for the Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS)⁠ ⁠ ⁠🏛 Vacant building that would house the Northern Arizona Normal School (1898)⁠ ⁠ ⁠📚 Old Main as it stood when we changed our name to Northern Arizona State Teachers College- which changed again in 1929 to Arizona State Teachers College (ASTC)⁠ ⁠ 🐕 Student standing in front of the newly re-named college, Arizona State College (ASC), with the new mascot, Mike (1945)⁠ ⁠ ⁠🪓 Students carrying the copper axe, an unofficial mascot of ASC, through a parade on Route 66 (1951)⁠ ⁠ ⁠👑 Homecoming wheel led by the Chain Gang, carrying the king and queen and the homecoming dedicatee (1966)⁠ ⁠ ⁠🔁 Workers change the Arizona State College sign to the newly renamed college: Northern Arizona University (1966)...