Celebrating 90 Years

Tower Editorial
January 14, 2012
Filed under Quill

As the University commemorates its 125th Anniversary, this is also an important year for The Tower as in October we will turn 90 years old. The Tower has been there through the ups and downs of the University, the district and the country. We have so far seen 117 editor-in-chiefs, 12 University Presidents, 16 United States Presidents, 7 wars, 89 graduating classes and 2 Papal visits.

The new Tower header pays homage to the original one used in the first issue published in 1922. At a time when the University was all male, they reported on losing a football game to Villanova, the beginning of the “social season” with a dance, and the need for a school orchestra. There are ads for Mayo’s Pharmacy with its slogan, “If it belongs in a Drug Store, We have it,” and announcements for Nat Luxenberg of New York who displayed a “full line of Suits, Sports Suits and Tuxedos” in Gibbons. If you left your shoes at 203 Gibbons, they would be collected and shined on Fridays by Lenord Delucia.

Throughout the year we will bring you back to the past. We will introduce you to writers who have long left the campus and embarked on bigger things. You will be able to read first-hand accounts of life at CUA during the Great Depression, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, JFK’s Assassination, and the Civil Rights Movement.

Help us celebrate our Double Sapphire anniversary by allowing us to continue to be your source of University news, as we have been for the past 90 years.