Old School
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December 8, 2014
UMS tradition
The University Choral Union performs Handel’s “The Messiah” on Dec. 16, 1945, in Hill Auditorium.
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November 24, 2014
Vintage high tech
The Michigan Digital Automatic Computer, pictured in 1954 at U-M’s Willow Run Research Center, was built the previous year with $500,000 of U.S. Air Force funds for Air Force research. It also was available to civilian industry.
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November 17, 2014
Reformer
Reflecting Progressive Era frustrations with government inefficiency and corruption, Jesse S. Reeves, chair of the U-M political science department, in 1925 proposes America’s first master’s in municipal administration degree.
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November 10, 2014
Armistice Day
In November 1918, Ann Arbor residents threw a parade to celebrate the armistice ending World War I.
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November 3, 2014
Rehearsing
Valery Gergiev rehearses the Marinsky Orchestra in November 1998 at Hill Auditorium, from a main floor aisle. The orchestra returns in January for two performances and the Ford Honors Program.
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October 27, 2014
Legislator
A number of international students graduated in the municipal administration degree program in 1927, including Rudolfo Kawi Hidalgo, from Besao in the Philippines. Hidalgo, the son of a rice farmer, went on to represent his district in the Philippine legislature.
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October 20, 2014
Law student
U-M law student John C. H. Wu, born China in 1899, at age 22 struck up a friendship with Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (then 80). Their correspondence over 11 years was published in “Justice Holmes to Doctor Wu: An Intimate Correspondence, 1921-1932.”
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October 13, 2014
Midwest side story
Legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in celebration of his 70th birthday and Hill Auditorium’s 75th anniversary, on Oct. 29, 1988.
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October 6, 2014
In my room
College pennants and a guitar stand out in this photo of a student’s room at U-M, from the John Joseph Smolenski scrapbook, 1908-10.
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September 29, 2014
Economist and founding dean
Edward M. (Ned) Gramlich, circa 1991, was founding dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, which was renamed to honor the former president and U-M alumnus. Gramlich also was a U-M provost, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and acting director of the Congressional Budget Office. The school this year celebrates its centennial.
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