University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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ITT THROUGH THE EYES OF THE OWL Pitt this year celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its yearbook, the Oicl. The years have been eventful with constant change. It is a fitting time for us to look back toward the first decades of this century, seeing what has given stature to our University, but never forgetting that the Class of 1956 will live with today and plan for tomorrow. How docs one chart the history of a great university? Its story, its drama, is elusive and the only truths of the past that exist are the records that have measured our progress. To honor that progress we have chosen to portray its source: the administrators, the faculty, the students who make a school live—no matter what its size—and the buildings, new and old, in which that life of learning is carried on. Throughout its entire history, Pitt has been concerned with growth and expansion. Since the early nineteen-hundreds when the Western University of Pennsylvania chose as its permanent name the University of Pittsburgh, new developments have come into existence quickly. An early plan for the University’s location was the building of a new educational Heinz Chapel 6 ■ ■■«,

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EDICATION The Owl is fifty years old. Each organization that celebrates an anniversary is proud of its past. As it grows older the group becomes rich with customs and traditions that its members founded. It becomes an integral part of the needs of the people it serves. The Owl is fifty years old. Within that time, the Owl has become more than a book with students’ pictures. It has become a record of students’ lives in their undergraduate days at the University and a pictorial history of a great University’s growth. This world that the Owl serves is an important world. The people who make up this world, both students and faculty, should Ik- given more than words and lectures to remember the wonderful days that they spent at the University of which they arc so much a part. The staffs that have worked on the yearbook have tried to meet this need by producing a better Owl each year for University people. To these staffs, we wish to dedicate this edition of the Owl. Everyone, whether editor, adviser, or typist who has built this tradition of the Owl we wish to thank for the heritage given us. In fifty years, the book has grown because of these people. We hope that our book will be a credit to them and a fitting lx ok to end the first fifty years of its history. The Editor 5

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