Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dressing up for basketball in 1951 com- plemented a winning season by the women ' s team, (photo by Templar 1951) And you thought the lines at the bookstore were bad now! (photo by Templar 1970) pontile kf Temple expenenff ..»v Floating across the football field was one of the Homecoming Week festivities in 1959. ;j;id»ot0 ' • 4 fc p v l960) ' ' -V[ V Old TempleXLIFE 19

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Different styles, different peo- ple, same place. Even in 1978 the Bell Tower was the place to just hang out and have fun (photo by Templar 1978) From Templar 1978: We ' ve all had the experience before. It used to happen a bit more when we were freshmen, but it still happens often enough. You know the feeling, you ' re somewhere- at work, on vacation in Florida, at your grandmother ' s house in Buf- falo- anywhere, and while talking with someone the subject of school comes up. And the person you ' re speaking with will invariably ask you the question you cannot answer. They ' ll ask you what is Temple like ?!! And you sit there for a few moments, not knowing what to say. Speechless. It ' s happened before and is a familiar feeling, but you still break into a cold sweat whenever it happens. Finally, you try to explain. Well, you say. Tem- ple is sort of. . .it ' s. . .ah. . .well, it ' s. . .it ' s big. Yeah, it ' s big, real big. Okay, you ' ve gotten that far, now where do you go? So you stimible a bit more and then say that it ' s big and. . .ah, in the dty. Yeah in Philadelphia. North Philadelphia. Bad area, but nice campus. . .especially in the spring. What next? You ' re undecided. Do you mention the Bell Tower or the financial crunch? The his- tory or the apathy? The plans or the reaUty? There ' s so much to explain, where do you start ' Well, you could start with some statistics: With almost 37,000 enrolled students. Temple is one of the largest universities in the country. The school offers a variety of degrees, from medicine to law, to recreation, to journalism, to music. Temple has five campuses in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas, including one in Center City. And Temple ' s Rome, Italy campus offers interested students a chance to study abroad. Back home at the Main Campus at Broad and Montgomery, Temple is the largest single em- ployer in the North Philadelphia area. The school colors are cherry and white and its nick- name is the Owls. Okay, you ' ve bored your listener with a list of meaningless statistics, but where do you go now? What about the real Temple? What about all the things that make this school, if not unique, then at least different from St. Joe ' s, Villanova, or even, (yech), Penn? What about the subways, the busses, the parking lots, (or lack of)? What about the SAC cafeteria. Canteen, and the trucks, the professors, students, faculty, and staff? What about Rebcr Hall, Gladfelter, Curtis, Johnson, Hardwick and Pcabody, Park Mall, Columbia Avenue and Broad Street? What about Johnny Ring, the Temple Hospital, the Temple News and the Temple Alumni Review? What about the Harvard on the Delaware? What about the hundred of other things that make Temple University Temple University? How do you explain it all? You probably just don ' t, because Temple really can ' t be explained. It ' s got to be experienced to be understood. And even then, experience does not guarantee understanding. 18 LIFE Old Temple

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Temple 3rzd nd by Jecin-Mcirie Martino The Temple T Everywhere you travel on campus, you can see the omnipresent Temple T. On Weiss Hall and the Computer Math- ematics Building, as well as above Broad Street, our logo is proudly displayed. This was not always so. Prior to Peter Liacouras ' becoming president. Temple ' s logo was a round seal with the Com- monwealth building in the center. Pres- ident Liacouras decided early in his ten- ure that Temple was in need of a new symbol. President Liacouras wanted Temple students to make the symbol themselves because we have the creativity it takes to produce lasting art and the spirit needed to inspire such a symbol of unity. With the help of eight Tyler School of Art graduate students, later referred to as The Logo Team, and many hours of brainstorming, the T was adopted. Kris Herrick, the graduate student personally responsible for creating the chosen logo, said she thought of the style because it is used on athletic sweaters. There were originally three logos up for the position, but this T was a success wdth President Liacouras and the Com- mittee because of its boldness, versa- tility, and ability to work well on tel- evision. The T has appeared on The Cosby Show. Prior to the T, all of the different schools and colleges at Temple were us- ing different logos. With the adoption of the T over seven years ago, Temple shows unity throughout all of its cam- puses v th its symbol of spirit in the sky. i Acres of Diamonds ' ' Russell Conwell is a man famous for many contributions: authoring over 40 books, fighting in the Civil War, writing and traveling for Boston newspapers, founding Samaritan (now Temple Uni- versity) Hospital, and for his great speech Acres of Diamonds. Acres of Diamonds is the tale Conwell was told during his trip to Mesopotamia at age 17. According to Conwell, an old Buddhist priest had spoken to Ali Hafed, a Persian farmer, of a wealth of dia- monds available by a river that runs over white sand between high moun- tains, in those sands you will always see diamonds. The priest told Hafed he could buy a whole country and be happy if he had diamonds. So Hafed left his home and searched many years for an acre of di- amonds to make him eternally happy. Many years later, Hafed died far from home, old and vsathout any diamonds. After his death, fabulous diamonds were found on Ali Hafed ' s own land. This tale became a favorite of Conwell. He often said: Your diamonds are not in far-away mountains or in distant seas; they are in your ov m back yard if you will but dig for them. Conwell also told a story of how in 1844, seven young men approached him asking to be taught. These diamonds were the first students of Temple Uni- versity. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ •♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦ •♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦ ► ♦♦♦♦♦ 20 LIFE Traditions