University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Outline of Aims To define and divide, to clarify and reveal, to retrospect and portray. This stands as our purpose. Our yearbook is defined as a story of the year 1958 as it was lived by students of the University of Detroit. We divide our book into two major parts: the events of the school year 1958 and the people who lived that year. We clarify by renewing old thoughts and making them once again clear and vivid in your mind. We reveal many things that we hope are novel to you, interesting in part, informa¬ tive also. We look back on the past year and record with picture and word stories the 1958 year that you had a part in—for you are part of the record. We attempt last of all to portray that year, with colors and black and whites, with quips and cutlines, copy blocks and drawings. This is the past from which we quarry the materials that you find in this book. Actually it is a building with the cornerstone engraved University of Detroit, 1958. But you must page through and tour and see if this is the building that you think it is, if this is the edifice that you helped to build in 1958. That is why we present TOWER , 1958. With these thoughts in mind follow along and see more of the plan of our work. We have told you of the two parts, the building and the build¬ ers. The events of the past year occupy the first half of the volume. Registration, Homecoming, Basketball, Carnival: these are only a few of the many things you will find included here. You can reattend the University theater, watch the Titans in action, revisit lecture halls and dorms, and sit once again over coffee in the Union. This half is broken into four parts, each part with its purposeful color to guide you through it, each part a section of a chronology. But this is only half of 1958. The other half is the people who lived this year at the university. There are those from the upper echelon who leave on graduation. There are the Greeks, the Organization members, the Administration. They comprise the second half of the book. We have said our part; it remains for you to look. 3

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A quaking day, amber, vital, reaching, gathers, deepens, draws its essence in a cooling hue firing warm, thickening in its pigment. Striking silent in its pressing reach, the massing swirl passes deep its minute jet of crimson flame. Yawning fragments slower dented supple to its liquid flow. A fresh exuberance milky red spreads its weary, painful stanza deep, dark, unblotted. Foggy wisps of fresh, vibrant dew circles build¬ ings pearly gray, trenched in tradition’s aging ivy. The seasoned ground lies open, cold, and gray. Autumned cheers filtering webs of sunlight grasp environments of steel gray days, gray with knowledge slowly wrought in hourly struggles sharply met. Pensive moods charting student thoughts stir academic veins to channeled paths of guarded truths revealed. MHNI ■■n mm i Streaking ribbons velvet yellow smoothened bright, veiled, softened light, tone minds strengthened, trained compact. A misty echo warming light, eclipses darkness, melting shad¬ ows nearly dim. Twilight’s pom pom shimmering golden, crystal, silver, gleams beneath winter sun’s modulated breath. Harvest shades leaning towards ambition’s blade bound out darting strains, gathered now to ban ignorance bare. Starlight waters calmly cool, lapping shores dis¬ tant, vague, jewel blue diamond hopes of ne’r- reached goals. Heaven ' s dome harbor blue in blotted white touching archways timely sought, marry dreams, captured, gained. An arduous apex snowfrost blue ties a steeper climb ensued. Twisting trails winding south meeting cross¬ roads edging west hide a future barely seen, dimly lit, unmapped treasures grasped, attained.