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The 1960′s “Take-Over Generation”

When someone mentions the 1960s the first thing that often comes to mind for a lot of people these days is a vision of colorfully dressed hippies dancing in a park playing tambourines and singing songs of peace. Some people think of the Vietnam War and the protests that went along with it; some think of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the dark hours of that dramatic event. The troubled and troubling decade of the 1960s, and the string of events that ended once and for all the innocent years following World War II, seems to have been started by one major occurrence that a lot of people tend to overlook when they consider this time....

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , , , Updated: May 4, 2014

Students Then and Now

Take a look at the photo below. This is an image of a usual campus scene in 1964. In this photo, students rush to class or hurry to their parked cars or into the library at the right side of the picture. The day is warm, probably Spring, and students seem distracted by their studies, the change in the seasons, or each other. One student in the foreground seems to be checking his watch, others seem lost in their own thoughts. Here is a moment in time, fifty years ago, held forever in this frozen image....

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University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection , , , , , Updated: March 5, 2014

The Great Debate of 1898

In the first few pages of the June 1898 issue of the Tamarack, is the Skinner Prize Debate, an interesting argument on U.S. immigration laws. The discussion begins with a resolve: “That the immigration laws of the United States should be made more stringent.” This caught my eye as I was skimming over the offerings in this edition of our new Tamarack archive. From what I remembered from U.S. history, the U.S. during this time was welcoming immigrates with few exceptions. We had a vast country to fill in the late 1800s and those from other countries who sought freedom and boundless beauty were clamoring to populate it....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: March 7, 2014

Catalogs Offer More than just Class Listings

Here’s a thought puzzle: You are working on a research paper or book about the university in the 1940s and you need quick access to some basic statistical information. You might have questions about the G. I. Bill for returning veterans. Or maybe your question is about accreditation during this time; or the number of volumes the library had on January 1, 1949; or even the location on campus where the evening division office was located in the early 1940s. (And what the heck is “accreditation” all about anyway?)...

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Course Catalogs & Bulletins , , , , Updated: November 20, 2013

Bulletins and Catalogs

As announced at this year’s Convocation, the Course Catalogs and Bulletins digital archive is now available on our Special Collections page. This valuable collection offers the researcher and the curious a glimpse into a structured past that may stimulate memories of hours spent arranging and managing course offerings and scheduling in years past. There is other valuable information to be discovered in these pages, however. Now that the catalog is offered online only, it’s interesting to see how students, pencils and highlighters in hand, once determined how their semesters would be filled. ...

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Course Catalogs & Bulletins , , , , Updated: November 1, 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

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
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