Honoring Ford
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| Former president Gerald Ford appears at the 1994 Michigan-Michigan State game at the Big House to retire his U-M football jersey. Ford was a center on the team from 1932-34. |
This month in history (16 years ago) In his Wallenberg Lecture, Per Anger, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest during World War II, said he last saw Raoul Wallenberg in January 1945, as both evaded Nazi troops. “I told him to hide because they were searching for him … He said, ‘I could never go back (to Sweden) without knowing I have done everything I can to save all the people I can.’ And so he was arrested.” A 1935 U-M graduate, Wallenberg is credited with saving thousands of Jews in Hungary before his arrest and disappearance. — The University Record and The Wallenberg Medal & Lecture website. Have a campus memory to share? Use the comment box below. |
October 31, 2011
Old school: U-M in History
Today's Headlines
- Non-union staff nominees sought for police oversight panel
- Pam Davis-Kean named director of ISR’s Survey Research Center
- $17.9M grant accelerates U-M mental health research
- Board of Regents to meet July 18 at University Hall
- Parking, transportation updates in advance of Ann Arbor Art Fair
- Runge to retire from Michigan Medicine
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens invites public to name beaver family
- International Institute names von Moltke interim director
- State budget supports U-M’s education, economic development efforts
- $10.5M biomaterials center to fight resource discrimination
