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The Inauguration of a University President

While the world will be watching as the United States inaugurates Donald Trump as the President of the United States, I thought I would take a moment to review what went on when the University of Detroit Mercy inaugurated its most recent president, Antoine Garibaldi in 2012. Family, friends, faculty, board of trustees, alumni and all the local dignitaries came together to celebrate the university’s heritage and reaffirm its mission to the community. It turned out to be a very...

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Uncategorized , Updated: January 18, 2017

Some Unique Items in the Archives

In the archives, we try to keep at least three copies of everything like yearbooks, student newspapers, and just about any publication put out by the university. However, there are those items that are a one time thing and will never get duplicated. Here are a sample of some of those items:    There may be lots of mugs with the 1957 Spring Carnival on it-but this one has a special designation: it has the President of UD name and...

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Uncategorized , , , , , Updated: April 24, 2014