I happen to be browsing through the Varsity News, April 25, 1958 and saw a short article about “The Sound of Silence”, a special documentary program with Marcel Marceau, famous French mime, that was to be presented on U-D radio. It just struck me as very odd-to do a radio show about something that you need to see, but would not necessarily hear. OK, so they can interview with Marcel and talk about the art of pantomime and they can...
GO TITANS! Past homecoming activities usually took place during football season, but now UDMercy celebrates homecoming during the basketball season. As part of the homecoming celebrations there were parades down Livernois Ave. with as many as thirty floats and the UD marching band, huge bonfires, and a homecoming queen elected. Homecoming still gets a lot of attention, it just changed with the times with different activities and as much enthusiasm as it generated more than fifty years ago....
You have heard of the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Super Bowl-but did you know there was a Cigar Bowl? Yep, there was the first (and only?) Cigar Bowl between the University of Detroit and Wayne State University held March 18 & 19, 1965 (Thursday at WSU and Friday at UD). It was sponsored by the R.G. Dun Cigar Co. with a $200 prize awarded to the winning university’s student loan or scholarship fund. Co-sponsors were the UD...
I just happen to be filing away some football pictures and just realized that there must have been a change in the scoreboards that were used back when UD had a football team. Don’t know when the change was made, but this first one has written on the back: “new electrical scoreboard donated by Chevrolet” and has a date stamp “Sept 26 1934″ The second scoreboard just has the date stamp” Oct 18, 1953″ The second one would have been...
Mercy College student newspaper, December 15, 1971...
Last day of finals-time to catch up on some rest and get ready for the holidays....
It was not an announcement UD president the Very Rev, Laurence V. Britt wanted to make: The University of Detroit has dropped Varsity football. His statement in part reads: “After careful appraisal of its most recently completed football season and detailed review of the program over the past ten years, the President and Trustees of the University of Detroit have now been compelled to make the decision to discontinue the university’s program of intercollegiate football. Despite concerted efforts to make...
University of Detroit Mercy Theatre Company is presenting a live radio play on “Its a Wonderful Life” from December 5-7 at the UDM Ground Coffee House. The students got a chance to take selfies with one of the actors in the play, Arthur Beer. Hard to say who enjoyed the selfies more-the students or the actor! Here are a few samples…....
Ever wonder how much laundry a family of four can go through in a year? To dramatize how many clothes and linens the average family of four must wash and dry, Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. used the University of Detroit Stadium, three miles of clothesline and 7,000 articles of clothing provided by Goodwill Industries. According to the September 9,1960 Free Press article: “…the hard work was done by 10 unhappy husbands. They toiled for nine hours, using 14,000 clothespins, three...
