History
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November 2, 2015
Marchers
Women cross the Diag in the 1950s with a banner for Sorosis, the professional women’s club.
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October 26, 2015
Art and design
A female student works at an easel during an art class in 1949 in the College of Architecture and Design.
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October 19, 2015
Caesar and Cleopatra
Having identified the need for a new theater on campus, Eugene and Sadye Power, along with their son Philip, made a major gift to U-M, leading to the construction of the Power Center for the Performing Arts. It formally opened its doors in 1971. The Department of Theatre & Drama subsequently presented its first play there that year, George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleopatra.”
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October 13, 2015
Bentley Historical Library makes Kevorkian papers open to public
The Bentley Historical Library has acquired the papers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a controversial Detroit-area native best known for his advocacy of physician-assisted suicide.
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October 12, 2015
Football legend
Tom Harmon, a Heisman Trophy winner at U-M, and actress Anita Louise, his co-star in the movie “Harmon of Michigan,” pose next to the Ingalls Mall fountain in 1941.
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October 5, 2015
Tea time
A 25th Anniversary Tea commemorating the construction of the Martha Cook Building takes place in October 1940.
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September 28, 2015
Aiding the war effort
Men stand at a booth at the corner of North University Avenue and State Street where women are selling savings bonds during World War II.
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September 21, 2015
Dressed for success
Well-dressed students make their way around Central Campus in 1929.
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September 14, 2015
First day
Shirley (Dayharsh) Barron and Carol Vestal Allen, U-M School of Nursing Class of 1958, are pictured on their first day of class in 1955.
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September 8, 2015
New beginning
Kasimir Fajans was a Russian chemistry professor of Polish and Jewish origin working in Germany. A top scientist on the cutting edge of radioactive and physical chemistry, he fled after Adolph Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Edward Kraus, LSA dean at U-M, offered Fajans a professorship. He took the job, and worked at U-M until his retirement in 1956.
