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50 years ago

October 9, 1956

Students for Eisenhower assembled for their first meeting; topics of discussion included Ike’s upcoming visit to Pittsburgh. A signature scroll was passed among students and would serve as a birthday present to the commander-in-chief later that month. The present was a capital idea, but what the dickens was Ike going to do with it?

25 years ago

October 6, 1981

Students were encouraged to make noise in the Fifth Annual Powder Milk Mouth-Off on the variety show A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast by WQED-FM. Interested applicants could send a cassette tape of their favorite orally-created sound effect, and entries were limited to two and half minutes in length. I guess this means I couldn’t have submitted my...

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