UWF Events

• John C. Pace Jr. leaves UWF $12 million estate
• UWF and UF launch joint electrical engineering program
• Renovated enrollment services building named J.B. Hopkins Hall
• Women’s softball team captures NAIA national championship
• Men’s basketball returns

World Events

• Yassar Arafat appointed president of Palestine
• Terrorists bomb New York’s World Trade Center
• National Health Care given high priority by President and First Lady Hillary Clinton
• Janet Reno sworn in as first female attorney general
• Mississippi overflows in spectacular flood
• “Motor-Voter” law and Family and Medical Leave Act pass
• Home computers and the internet take off
• Final episode of Cheers sitcom attracts 93.1 million viewers