University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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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

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THE CHANCELLOR The Chancellor's Message to Seniors: YOU who ark graduating will join more than 40,000 other alumni who arc just as much a part of this University as students and faculty. Vou will be the University-then as really as you have been while you were students. You will use what you have learned here to be doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, homemakers, and many other kinds of citizens. Your work, whatever it may be, will be determined in large measure by what you are. Into the “what you are” goes something of all your University-experience: an inspiring teacher, a cup of coffee in the Puck Shop, a crackling fire in the Commons Room, classrooms that teach, enduring friendships, beauty-in Gothic arches, cherry blossoms on the lawn, a University prom, a Stephen Foster melody, a character which you have lived in a play, an anthem you sang in the Choir, Christmas carols with the scent of pine trees. Throughout your life these memories will always be a part of you. shaping your character, and getting somehow into the lives of your children and of all those with whom you associate. We want you to take from all of your experiences as students to your work as alumni the ability to think, values by which you will live, and courage to act. Above all, we hope that you in the great adventure of life will have the satisfaction of being your best self. R. H. Fitzgerald Chancellor Itufiis II. Fitzgerald 18 The Chancellor greets students at his reception for seniors. A group of seniors chat with a good friend.