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
- Legislative support bolsters U-M, Los Alamos computing facility
- Annual report highlights Vision 2034, Campus Plan 2050
- Graduates encouraged to value truth in a rapidly changing world
- Institute for Civil Discourse to launch at university
- U-M plans new training program on discrimination, harassment
- Electronic consent process now open for 2024 Form W-2
- Record email will be on holiday break until Jan. 8
- Kelsey Museum receives $1.15M gift from alum Steve Klinsky
- U-M, Mellon Foundation announce Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub
- Campus bus, parking changes set for holiday period
