Beginning of a partnership and student exchange with the University of Graz in Austria.
The R. E. Womack Physical Education building is remodeled into the Fine Arts building, housing the Drama Department and the auditorium; computers are added to many buildings.
The Learning Enrichment Center is established to help elementary, junior, and senior high and college level students improve their skills, gain additional knowledge to meet basic developmental needs, and acquire a more positive self-image; the Black student Union is established at Lambuth College.
The renovation of the Planetarium is completed - dedicated as M. D. Anderson Planetarium thanks to a grant from the M. D. Anderson Foundation in honor of Monroe Dunaway Anderson, Jackson, TN, native and philanthropist – it is the only planetarium in West Tennessee outside of Memphis.
A tornado hits the Lambuth College campus, damaging several buildings.
A log cabin originally built in the 1850s is relocated to the Lambuth College campus – the cabin is a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Dunlap to help the school celebrate the United States’ 200th anniversary – the cabin will house The Dunlap-Williams Log House Museum of Early America, which will display pioneer and colonial artifacts, antiques, and memorabilia – the museum will be named.
Professor Yamauci of Kwansei Gakuin University, founded by Bishop Lambuth in 1889 in Kobe, Japan, visits Lambuth College.
The Rousseaux Memorial Scholarship Fund is established.