Add to ORKGOn July 17, 1969, mankind was holding its collective breath anxiously waiting for Neil Armstrong to land on the moon. Funny Girl and Midnight Cowboy were box-office successes. The newly elected Nixon Administration said it was deferring work on housing and urban problems until it ended the Vietnam War and inflation. The 1969 Volkswagen Beetle was a beauty at $1,799. And Illinois Gov. Richard Ogilvie came to a party in the south suburbs to sign legislation that created Governors State University. The new university was the outgrowth of long-range planning by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) which recognized a need for commuter campuses