High Honors: UHC Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Pitt’s University Honors College (UHC) celebrated its 20th anniversary with the first-ever UHC Alumni Reunion at the Petersen Events Center in May. Alumni and friends toasted the college and roasted UHC Dean G. Alec Stewart, presenting him with a caricature of himself (pictured below) by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers.
Below from left: Leland Patouillet (EDUC ’00), Pitt associate vice chancellor for alumni relations and executive director of the Pitt Alumni Association; Dean Stewart; and UHC alumnus Kim Watterson (CAS ’81, FAS ’88, LAW ’91).
UHC reunion weekend activities included seminars and tours of UHC. During a tour of UHC’s facilities on the Cathedral of Learning’s 35th and 36th floors, Ken Doyno (above right), a partner at Rothschild Doyno Architects in Regent Square and lead architect of the 2002-03 renovation of the college, described for UHC alumni and staff details of the stained glass designed by Glenn Greene Glass of Regent Square
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Follow a group of Pitt students on the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights bus tour, a nine-day, 2,300-mile journey crisscrossing five states.
Day 1: The Awakening
Day 2: Deep Impressions
Day 3: Music, Montgomery, and More
Day 4: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Day 5: Learning to Remember
Day 6: The Mountaintop
Day 7: Slavery and Beyond
Day 8: Lessons to Bring Home
Day 9: Final Lessons