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Bruno Leon
This year we mourn the passing of Bruno Leon, founding dean of the University of Detroit School of Architecture (1964), who entered eternal life on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Although I had never met him,...
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1968
Close your eyes and for a few moments, take a quick trip with me back to 1968. Could you visualize it? Even if you were born after this time, the history of the ’60s is a pretty dominate part of the...
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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...
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“A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words”
I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage, “A picture is worth 1,000 words.” The truth in this saying is evidenced by the variety of photos without text in the later issues of the Tower Yearbook. The 1973...
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The 1960′s “Take-Over Generation”
The 1963 Tower Yearbook introduces the reader to 12 months of changes summed up in one span of time between March 15, 1962 to March 15, 1963. The yearbook narrows down the events of that unsettled time...
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1943 Tower
Seventy one years ago the country was poised for war. Europe was unsettled and those fresh faces graduating from the University of Detroit were well aware that they faced an uncertain future. In 1939,...
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The 1965 Campus
There are two great aerial photos of the campus in the beginning pages of the 1965 Tower Yearbook. All the changes that have taken place on campus and the surrounding neighborhood since this time are...
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1965 — Aerial View
The 1965 Tower Yearbook begins with an aerial view of the campus. Spending a few minutes on the two images offered here, allows visitors an amazing perspective on how much of the campus has changed...
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The Library
These days the library has become more of a center for learning, sharing, and community than a warehouse of books. In its early days, however, students and faculty who used the University of Detroit...
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The Football Riots
No one saw it coming. It’s only a game after all, right? Lots of students, who were more interested in academics and had never bothered with attending the games, hardly noticed the decisive blow that...
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