The "Wright State University" Name
What's in a name?
If things had gone a little differently 42 years ago, we would all be celebrating Founders' Day here at Southwestern State University instead of Wright State University.
 When it opened its doors in 1964, our university was known as the Dayton branch campus of the Miami and Ohio State Universities. By the next year, a plan was afoot in the Ohio legislature to turn the branch campus into Wright Brothers University, a four-year institution that would join the ranks of Ohio's seven other state Universities.
The Wright Brothers University name was scuttled in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1965 when the representative from Springfield, Charles E. Fry, successfully added an amendment to the bill creating the new university, changing the name to Southwestern State University. The Senate disagreed, and a conference committee settled the matter by proposing the name Wright State University, a name both houses agreed upon.
Senate Bill 212 passed in 1967 actually created the new university, which was officially chartered Wright State University on Oct. 1, 1967.
1965 List of potential WSU names
- Air Base State University
- Air Cities State University
- Airway State University
- Allyn State University
- Ankeney State University
- Billy Mitchel University
- Buckakin University
- Buckeye State University
- Celestial Heights University
- Dahio State University
- Dayborn State University
- Dayton State University
- Delta State University
- Dennis State University
- Dwight Young University
- Edison State University
- Fairborn State University
- Fairday State University
- Four Rivers University
- Grange Hall University
- Green Acres University
- Greene-Mont State University
- Hawthorne State University
- John F. Kennedy University
- Mad River University
- Mad River State University
- Martin Luther King University
- Maumee University
- Megacity State University
- Midwestern State University
- Miova State University
- Montgomery University
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- Montgren University
- Mound University
- Ohio Western State University
- Southwestern University
University
- Oxford Regional University
- Rhodes State University
- Robin State University
- Rolling Hills University
- Shawnee State University
- Shawnee University
- Skyway State University
- Southern University
- Southwestern Ohio State
- State University of Southwestern
Ohio
- Taft State University
- Taft University
- Tecumseh State University
- The State University of Ohio at
Dayton
- Trebein Hall University
- University of Ohio
- University of Southern Ohio
- University of Southwestern Ohio
- Western Valley State University
- Whatsamatta U.
- Wilbur Orville Wright University
- Wright Brothers University
- Wright-Patterson University
- Wright View University
- Wright State University
- Wright University
- 88-County State University
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