University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE 1976 OWL Volume 71 CONTENTS Behind it All.............................4 The People...............................33 The Place ...............................50 The Life.................................66 The Games................................88 The Times...............................176 The Greeks..............................214 The Organizations.......................264 The Regional Campuses...................314 The Class of '76 .......................326

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In the Beginning . . . Ttw S m •» »K U wvry W P. Hfcvr«fc » m 1 i 4 • 1 90. • c m l a o» rfc rarnw 1 K m »n4 DHwiiW H H» 0 w i poy» TK llnl hem 1 th UiWvtrMty, • coton ot Third o«d Cherry. downtown The University of Pittsburgh. An institution of higher education which, as the United States of America celebrates her 200th birthday, celebrates along as an institution just eleven years her junior, an institution founded in 1787, one hundred and eighty-nine years old today. The history of the institution is indeed varied and colorful. Growing from its infant roots as an all-male log cabin schoolhouse in a tiny frontier town some three hundred miles west of the nearest “civilization located in Philadelphia, the University of Pittsburgh is today a major metropolitan university complex serving some 33,000 male and female students a year. With seven schools and four regional campuses, Pitt brings to Western Pennsylvania, the civilization which two hundred years ago was available only in Philadelphia. 5