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California State University, Chico (Chico State [7]) is a public university in Chico, California. It was founded in 1887 as one of about 180 "normal schools" founded by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools. Some closed but most steadily expanded their role and became state ...
Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree (Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. It was featured in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin ...
C. Glynnis Talken Campbell. Richard Campbell (American musician) John Canzano. Raymond Carver. Doug Chapman (stuntman) Rocky Chávez. Kym Crosby.
The Chico State baseball team plays at the 4,100–seat Nettleton Stadium, known as Ray Bohler Field until its 1997 renovation.The Wildcats won the NCAA Division II national title in 1997 and 1999, and was runner-up in 2002 and 2006; all four appearances in the finals were under head coach Lindsay Meggs. [3]
The 1967 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State College—now known as California State University, Chico —as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1967 NCAA College Division football season. Led by George Maderos in his tenth and final season as head coach, Chico State compiled an overall record of 2–8 ...
Turner was a professor of art at California State University, Chico, between 1959 and 1981, and died in Chico. [11] The Janet Turner Print Museum at the university was created in her name. [ 12 ] During her lifetime, Turner's work received relatively little scholarly attention, which critics have attributed to biases against printmaking ...
The 1965 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State College—now known as California State University, Chico —as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1965 NCAA College Division football season. Led by eighth-year head coach George Maderos, Chico State compiled an overall record of 4–6 with a mark of 0–5 ...
The 1983 Chico State Wildcats football team represented California State University, Chico as a member of the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) during the 1983 NCAA Division II football season. Led by Dick Trimmer in his tenth and final season as head coach, Chico State compiled an overall record of 4–5–1 with a mark of 3–2 ...