Vintage 1925 Student Annual Of Western State Normal School Western Michigan University

Own a unique piece of history for Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI!

Western Michigan University was established by legislative act in 1903 as Western State Normal School, the fourth and final normal school founded by the state government in Michigan, after the ones in Ypsilanti (1849), Mount Pleasant (1892), and Marquette (1899).

In 1957, G. Mennen Williams signed a bill into law that made Western a university and gave the school its current name of Western Michigan University.