Famous Visitors
King Shares Father’s Vision – February 6, 2003
St. Cloud State University hosts entertainers, celebrities, politicians, athletes, radio, film, and television actors, and music groups. These events, organized both by students and St. Cloud State, offer different viewpoints, seek to educate and inform, and to entertain. And The Chronicle was there to report on it.
February 6, 2003
Martin Luther King III, son of Martin Luther King Jr., visited campus in February 2003. In a presentation entitled “Dream Deferred,” King touched upon current events and how they connected to his father’s teachings. The event was sponsored by the University Program Board (UPB), a long-time campus organization of St. Cloud State students.
Jesse Owens on campus, March 1957
Other visitors to campus included Indian Shaukat Ali, African singer Miriam Makeba, transgender person Christine Jorgensen, American Indian activist Clyde Bellecourt, and athlete Jesse Owens, as well as Elton John, Cheap Trick, Bob Hope, and the Smithereens.
Transgender woman Christine Jorgensen, May 1973