On the day of President Jeffrey Baker's final convocation as president, groundbreaking for a new suite of student housing took place across the road from the main campus.

The Anti-War Movement, combined with Civil Rights concerns, at Luther as elsewhere, encouraged an activist response from students, a revolutionary urge to turn the world on its head.

Fencing was introduced in 1949 by Madeleine Fried, then director of women's physical education.

The year 2011 marked the Luther College Sesquicentennial, or 150th Anniversary.

"In a certain sense Luther College is the lengthened shadow of the intellectual and spiritual hopes, aspirations, and ideals of the hardy Norse pioneer men and women of the Northwest. . ."