My First Pittsburgh Words Go Pitt

My First Pittsburgh Words Go Pitt
Author: Connie McNamara
Publisher: It Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780062203632

Go Pitt is an introduction to the University of Pittsburgh for little ones. Colorful pages, combined with simple words, enhance a learning atmosphere for both child and parent. Early association with the spirit of Pittsburgh provides knowledge and excitement for future years.

My First Pittsburgh Words Go Pitt 10c Counter

My First Pittsburgh Words Go Pitt 10c Counter
Author: Connie McNamara
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780062208071

Go Pitt is an introduction to University of Pittsburgh for little ones. Colorful pages, combined with simple words, enhance a learning atmosphere for both child and parent. Early association with the spirit of Pitt provides knowledge and excitement for future years.

Speaking Pittsburghese

Speaking Pittsburghese
Author: Barbara Johnstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199945683

Explores the history and development of Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice.

Pitt

Pitt
Author: Sam Sciullo, Jr.
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005
Genre: Basketball
ISBN: 1596700815

From 2001-2004, no Division IA men's college basketball program in the country had a better winning percentage (88-16, .846) than the University of Pittsburgh. Pitt also won (or shared) three consecutive Big East Conference regular-season or tournament championships during that period. Approaching its 100th year of intercollegiate basketball, Pitt could lay claim to the assertion that these were, indeed, a rejuvenation of its glory days. It wasn't always that way. The university--once known as the Western University of PennsylvaniA fielded its first basketball team in 1905-06. The team practiced and played just about anywhere it could find a floor and a couple of hoops. Crowds were small, media coverage was slim, and the future of the program was doubtful. That program officially became known as the University of Pittsburgh's Panthers in 1909. After H.C. Doc Carlson--a former Pitt football and basketball player as well as a physician by trade--became head coach in 1922, the program firmly established itself. In 1925, the Panthers had their first true home facility when they moved into the Pavilion--a gym beneath Pitt Stadium. Carlson would lead the Panthers to a pair of mythical national titles by the end of the 1920s. Pitt: 100 Years of Pitt Basketball is the definitive history of basketball at the University of Pittsburgh. From Charley Hyatt, Doc Carlson's first All-American, through sure and steady point guard Brandin Knight, some of college basketball's most influential players have worn blue and gold. Scoring whiz Don Hennon burst onto the scene in the '50s, followed by rugged Brian Generalovich in the '60s, and silky smooth Billy Knight in the '70s. Sam Bam Clancy helpedturn Pitt's program around in the late '70s, and when Pitt was invited to join the Big East Conference in 1982, the face of the program changed forever. Its rosters and coaching staffs--formerly filled with Pennsylvania boys and men with Pitt backgrounds--would soon include players and coaches from across the nation. Charles Smith and Jerome Lane gave Pitt a dynamic one--two inside punch-and a pair of Big East titles--in the 1980s. And when Ben Howland left Northern Arizona in 1999 to coach the Panthers, aided by a young assistant named Jamie Dixon, Pitt basketball was on the cusp of college basketball greatness.

Pitt

Pitt
Author: Robert C. Alberts
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822979780

This is a history of a major American university from its birth on the western frontier in the eighteenth century through its two-hundredth anniversary. Told primarily through the stories of its energetic and sometimes eccentric chancellors, it's a colorful and highly readable chronicle of the University of Pittsburgh. The story begins in the early spring of 1781, when an ambitious young Philadelphia lawyer named Hugh Henry Brackenridge crossed the Alleghenies to seek his opportunity in Pittsburgh. "My object,"?he wrote, "was to advance the country [Western Pennsylvania] and thereby myself." He founded Pittsburgh Academy, later to be the Western University of Pennsylvania and then the University of Pittsburgh, and lived to see the school grow along with the city. Author Robert C. Alberts, mines the University archives and describes many issues for the first time. Among them is the role played by the Board of Trustees in the conflicts of the administration of Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman, including the firing of a controversial history professor, Ralph Turner; the resignation of the legendary football coach, Jock Sutherland; and a Board investigation into Bowman's handling of faculty and staff. We see Pitt's decade of progress under Edward Litchfield (1956-165), who gambled that the millions of dollars he spent . . . would be forthcoming form somewhere or someone; but who, as it turned out was mistaken." Pitt became a state-related university in August 1966, but financial stability was achieved gradually during the administration of Chancellor Wesley W. Posvar. The ensuing crisis of the 1960s and early 1970, caused by the Vietnam War, and the student protests that accompanied it, are described in rich detail. The history then follows Pitt's emergence as a force in international higher education; the institution's role in fostering a cooperative relationship with business; and its entry into the postindustrial age of high technology. The story of Pitt reflects all the struggles and the hopes of the region. As Alberts writes in his preface, "There was drama; there was tragedy; there was indeed controversy and politics. There were, unexpectedly, rich veins of humor, occasionally of comedy."

An Alternative History of Pittsburgh

An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
Author: Ed Simon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1953368131

Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the

Boy @ the Window

Boy @ the Window
Author: Donald Earl Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-11
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780989256131

As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

The Post-confessionals

The Post-confessionals
Author: Earl G. Ingersoll
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838633304

Based on the holdings of the Brockport Writers Forum Videotape Library, this collection of lively discussions of craft with nineteen contemporary poets illuminates the state of American poetry and poetics today.

Writing Fiction and Poetry

Writing Fiction and Poetry
Author: Sally Sullivan
Publisher: Bitingduck Press LLC
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1997-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1886420084

Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect, Wordsworth cautioned at the dawning of a new age of science and technology. It is a caution that, in addition to applying to the study of art and nature, might also apply to our investigation of the creative process, which has engaged the meddling minds of many. OC the process involved in literary creation, in particular, has fascinated many ordinary people, as well as a great many psychologists and philosophers, from Plato onOC . The variety of approach and style in Writing Fiction and Poetry extends also to gender and experience. The book contains essays and interviews of 12 internationally-known North Carolina writers. For an author bio and photo, reviews, and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com."