Above: Leah Chandler (standing) and members of Group 1 in Jean-Claude van Italie's Interview. Below: Livia (played by Mary Lou Rosato) mourns over the slain Leantio (David Schramm) in a scene from Women Beware Women, Group 1. (Photos by Richard Whitmeyer )

1933 January 30, the Extension Department (predecessor to the Evening Division) opened for classes.

1947 December 10, 18-year-old pianist Doris Pines, a student of Lonny Epstein and Ernest Hutcheson, was crowned Beauty Queen of Juilliard at the Social Committee's Christmas Ball. Ten contestants who were nominated by the student body competed in a beauty and talent contest held at the School. Miss Pines went on to participate in a citywide college competition on January 9, winning the title "Miss Publicity of New York City."

1953 January 23, Van Cliburn appeared as the student soloist competition winner with the Juilliard Orchestra. Jean Morel conducted the program of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Stravinsky's Divertimento from the ballet Le baiser de la fée, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3.

1971 December 7 to 17, the Juilliard Acting Company, under the direction of John Houseman, presented its first repertory season. The company of 17 fourth-year students—the first graduating class of the Drama Division, known as Group 1—made its repertory debut with productions of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal (directed by Gerald Freedman); Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths (directed by Boris Tumarin); Thomas Middleton's Jacobean comedy Women Beware Women (directed by Michael Kahn); and a double bill of two one-act plays directed by Gene Lesser: Interview by Jean-Claude van Italie and The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horowitz. The company's debut season continued with appearances at Harvard, Princeton, Jackson Community College, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and University of Toledo, in addition to a residency in Sullivan County high schools.

Jeni Dahmus is Juilliard's archivist.