Category Archives: University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection

Digitized Yearbooks Available

The Dental School yearbooks offer a unique view of this specialized education. Included in each book are pages of images from current news and events which help the reader travel back to a particular time and place. The reader can say “Ah, yes, I remember when Ozzie Osbourn had his own reality show!” Although it doesn’t seem that long ago, looking back through the glossy pages of these Dental School yearbooks allows the viewer an intimate peek at how the fashion, the state of the world, and even the campus has changed in such a relatively short period of time. You might see some familiar faces here; and you might gain some insight into how the past creates the future. They may look different, but students were basically the same then as they are now: fun loving, intelligent, and eager for “great things.”...

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , Updated: September 12, 2013

1988 and 1992 Digitized Tower Yearbooks Now Available

This month UDM Libraries/Instructional Design Studio is pleased to announce the release of the 1988 and 1992 Tower Yearbooks into the digital archives. We are also making available the 1990 through 1992 digitized Dental School yearbooks. The release of the two digitized Tower Yearbooks marks the end of that collection. Additional Dental School yearbooks will be added every two months until that collection is also complete and up to date....

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , Updated: July 12, 2013

Remembering a Tragic Event

As with any traumatic national event, anyone living during the early 1960s likely remembers exactly where they were when they heard the news that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Even today, when anyone mentions “tragic event in Dallas,” it’s likely that this particular event comes to mind. That day, students, teachers, administrators, and staff at the University of Detroit all reeled from the shocking news. Everything in their lives seemed to stop, suspended in an attempt to comprehend what had happened, to try to understand the words “the President is dead.” Amidst the tears and disbelief, who could concentrate on schoolwork, on tests, on paying attention in class? So, like a lot of campuses, offices, and public spaces, U of D shut down for the day following the event. But unlike a lot of places, students showed up for a memorial mass held in honor of our fallen president....

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , , Updated: July 19, 2013

The Take-Over Generation

In 1962, Life published a special edition of its magazine called “The Take-Over Generation.” This featured the “100 most promising young professionals in the midcentury,” and focused on innovation, creative thinking, and cutting edge ideas. Youth, leadership qualities, and determination were all greatly admired during this time, and Life Magazine set out to recognize those upcoming movers and shakers in business, politics, and science. The University of Detroit recognized the dynamics of the times too. Where would these bright stars...

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , Updated: June 3, 2013

ROTC at U of D

In 1963, a lot of colleges and universities (as well as some high schools) were offering Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). As part of the Morrill Act of 1862, federal land granted to states for the establishment of institutions of higher learning required that military training be provided as part of their curriculum. Protests that took place during the 1960s over the Vietnam War and the violence associated with all wars, however, influenced the decision to drop ROTC from many...

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Digital Special Collections Process, University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , , , , Updated: June 3, 2013

War and Graduation

In a sense, the 1943 yearbook foreshadowed the hardships faced by a lot of schools and universities during this time. The University pledged its support of the war effort and provided a place for military training and organizations. One of the first pages in the Tower Yearbook for 1943 honored those former students who had already given their lives in service to their country. Soon, these new graduates would likely be drafted into what was believed to be a holy cause. ...

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , Updated: May 6, 2013

Digitized Yearbooks (1986 and 1987)

The UDM Libraries/Instructional Design Studio is pleased to announce the release of the 1986 and 1987 digitized Tower Yearbooks into our digital archives.

The styles have changed, the faces have changed, the way we view the world has changed, but since the 1986 and 1987 Tower Yearbooks were originally published, the tower itself and the exterior buildings surrounding it have pretty much stayed the same....

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , , Updated: May 9, 2013

The Value of Yearbooks

The first yearbook for the University of Detroit (called Red and White) was published in 1923, twelve years after Detroit College officially became a university. In its new status, the University of Detroit began with a focus on creating value. The founding Fathers knew the value that yearbooks offered and so they became an important part of shaping U of D’s history. The yearbooks produced during these early years represent not only the fun and friendship of the time spent at good old U of D, but they are also public records, documented history, and fine representatives of the school itself....

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , , Updated: April 15, 2013
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