University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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DMINISTRATION in which we take you hack through the portals of guidance and supervision. We open the door to the office of a beloved teacher, enter a familiar classroom, or pass through the glass-panelled door of a dean’s office. Merc we hnd the people responsible for Pitt’s distinguished place in the world of education. To their efforts are we indebt- ed for the privilege of attending a school of unquestioned superiority. We owe to them and to the University that is theirs and ours more than the gratitude of words. By their choice they have given us the means of broadening and enriching our lives to the fullest extent.

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THE PRESIDENT HONORARIUS Dr. John (wiIiIhtI Bowman Although each day in a Pitt student’s life was spent as a part of Dr. John G. Bowman's dream come true, few students in 1948 remembered the man whose faith raised the Cathedral of Learning. President Honorarius he is now, living in retirement at Water Brook Farm in Bedford County. From the farm, which he planned as a retreat from days crowded with activity in the embodying of ideals in stone and iron, come growing pines for the Commons Room at Christmas and hojjes always that the University continues to grow in the shadow of the 42-story Cathedral. A Gothic building he wanted, simple and un- adorned, but with each parallel line reaching upward toward the Heavens, forever elusive as a goal. A symbol of education he wanted in which there could be no ending. The building grew until, when he retired from active work in 1944 after 23 years at Pitt, the Cathedral of Learning had become a showplacc of a proud city. Dr. Bowman planned a building which a man. whatever his station in life, might look up to and say. My son shall In- a part of that.” And any man’s son who becomes a part of Pitt spends his collegiate years with a part of Dr. Bowman who lives quietly among rolling hills, trout streams, his pottery, and his l ooks. who lives now with the satisfaction of a dream fulfilled. 17