Class of 1802: First graduating class.
Class of 1814: First class to wear the grey uniform.
Class of 1835: First class to have a class ring.
Class of 1877: First African American graduate.
Class of 1922: First class to have an Honor Committee.
Class of 1933: First class to give a General BS degree to all graduates.
Class of 1944: Last class to be issued plebe trousers with buttons instead of a zipper.
Class of 1944: Last class to be issued the Springfield rifle.
Class of 1948: Last class to have riding as a mandatory class.
Class of 1949: Last class to have riding as an elective.
Class of 1950: Last class to receive training with horses.
Class of 1958: Last class to have 25 percent go into the AF.
1958: First Sylvanus Thayer Awardee.
Class of 1959: First class to be able to 'cross-commission' into other services.
Class of 1960: Last class to be assigned to companies based on height.
Class of 1960: Last class to march in an Inaugural Parade, followed by a Military Inaugural Ball in the evening.
1961: Cadets issued anodized Full Dress hat chains.
Class of 1962: Last class to have the traditional extensive cow trip.
Class of 1963: Issued the officer's tan blouse, tie, and trousers uniform.
Class of 1963: Last plebe class that formed into sections at a designated spot, then marched to academic classes under a 'section leader'.
Class of 1963: Last class to take Military Topography and Graphics (which morphed into Earth, Space and Geographic Science) class upstairs in Washington Hall?
Class of 1963: Last plebe class to use the Old Cadet Library, which was razed in summer of 1960 for a new academic building.
Class of 1963: First class to have Recondo Training at Camp Buckner.
Class of 1963: Plebe class issued the gray overseas cap for wear with khakis.
Class of 1963: First class issued the white over gray uniform first class year.
Class of 1963: Last class to graduate in the field house.
Class of 1964: First class to take Earth, Space and Graphical Sciences (successor to MT & G).
Class of 1964: First class to scramble companies after Yearling year.
Class of 1965: Last classs to have silver napkin rings in the mess hall?
Class of 1964: First class to have a designated Plebe Class Club.
Class of 1967: Last class to spend Plebe Christmas at West Point.
Class of 1968: Last class to be trained in Cadet Drill.
Class of 1971: Last class to live in the old Central Barracks.
Class of 1972: Last class to brace for entire Plebe year.
Class of 1972: Last class to have Band Box Reviews in Old Central Area.
Class of 1973: Last class to brace thru-out Beast Barracks.
Class of 1973: Last class to see 'silenced' as a punishment for honor violations.
Class of 1976: Last class to have mandatory chapel on Sundays
Class of 1976: Last class to see an all male Corps.
Class of 1976: Stayed in same company all 4 years.
Class of 1977: Last class to graduate by order of merit and have an official 'Goat'.
Class of 1977 and 1978: Scrambled into different companies due to 1977 honor scandal.
Class of 1978: Last class to be issued slide rules.
Class of 1978: First class to be authorized cars all of First class year.
Class of 1979: Last class to 'sit-up' in mess hall past Christmas.
Class of 1979: Last class to have a 'June Week'.
1979: In fall of 1979 breakfast for upperclassmen during the week became optional.
Class of 1980: First class to have women graduates.
Class of 1980: First class to have an African American First Captain.
Class of 1980: Last class to use a 3.0 grading system.
1980: No mail delivery started in fall of 1980 (turns out it was illegal for non-postal workers (eg Cadets) to deliver mail).
Class of 1982: Stayed in same company all 4 years.
Class of 1982: Last class to have mandatory breakfast during class mornings.
1985: Cadets did Airborne training and earned Airborne wings.
Class of 1985: First class to have academic majors, rather than general BS degrees.
Class of 1985: Scrambled into different companies after Yearling year. Classes of 1989, 1991 and 1992 were not scrambled. Class of 1992 was scrambled after Yearling year.
1988: Saturday classes ended after the spring term in 1988.
1988: Intramural football was 7-man tackle.
1989: Intramural lacrosse was eliminated and was replaced by IM rugby.
1990: The 4th Class System was replaced with the Cadet Leader Development System.
1990: Weekday dinners became optional the fall of 1990, and the Mess Hall added a ‘grab and go’ option of picking up a sack meal of a sandwich, chips, and piece of fruit and leaving (which a cadet could do wearing PT uniform) instead of eating at company tables in dress uniform.
1990: During the fall of 1990 cadets could opt to not attend home football games on Saturdays if they were studying in their rooms, in the Library, or in an academic classroom. Attendance at home games fell so precipitously that Academy leadership eliminated this option before the end of that season.
Class of 1990: First class to have a female First Captain.
Class of 1990: First class to be issued a standard and mandatory computer.
1991: The Goat-Engineer football game was a full-contact game played with full pads and helmets.
Class of 1992: First class to be issued Zenith personal computers with 3.5” floppy drives rather than 5.25” floppy drives.
1990: During Cadet Basic Training, New Cadets only had to eat at the position of attention (back straight and 1 fist distance from the chair back, abdomen 1 fist distance from the table edge, neck back and eyes focused on the crest at the top of the plate) for the first 3 weeks of CBT.
1992: First Distinguished Graduate Awardees.
Class of 2005 and later: Scrambled into different companies after Plebe year..
Class of 2008: First class to have non-gender wording in official songs.
Class of 2012: Last class to attend USMA (official name changed to West Point).
Class of 2018: First class to have an African American female First Captain.
Class of 2019: First class to have an African American Superintendent.
2019: First Ever Concert @ Michie - Dierks Bentley (OCT 2019)
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????: Fully anodized Full Dress hat issued to cadets.
????: Cadets are authorized to wear civilian clothes at West Point.
????: Intramural tackle football eliminated.
????: First intramural flag football.
????: Last class to have two month long Buckner Training.
????: Last class to have more than 2 SAMI's in a year.
????: Last class to have weekday parades.
????: Last class to have "easy" physics when E still equaled MC squared.
????: Snap on collars and cuffs replaced collar clips and T-pins for cuffs.
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