Avant-Garden

Visitors enjoy a sunny day at Mill Road Farm in 1941. Advertising executive and University trustee Albert D. Lasker donated the Lake Forest, IL, estate to UChicago in 1940, but the University owned it for only a few years, soon dividing and selling the property. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-05216, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

Mildly and soft the western breeze just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees

Visitors to Jackson Park enjoy the view over Lake Michigan at the turn of the 20th century. Originally called Lake Park, the area was transformed into the “White City” for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, filled as it was with whitewashed plaster beaux arts–style buildings. Though most of the fair’s original structures burned down, the buildings that now house the Museum of Science and Industry and the Art Institute of Chicago remain. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-04495, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

From the steep promontory gazed the stranger, raptured and amazed

A midcentury crowd enjoys the lakefront between 57th Street Beach and Promontory Point. What did you pack for a day at the Point? Share your picnic essentials with us at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-09866, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

Rubbernecking

Alumni return to Hyde Park for the 1968 reunion weekend. The program included a bus tour of the neighborhood, with a stop at Harper Court, a recent addition (completed in 1965) to the Hyde Park neighborhood. Built to house art studios and artisans’ shops relocated from the 57th Street Art Colony after its 1962 demolition, Harper Court expanded to include cultural institutions, shops, and restaurants. The bus returned everyone to campus for a reception, hosted by the outgoing president, George W. Beadle, at the newly renovated Cobb Hall. Did you visit the 57th Street Art Colony or the old Harper Court shops? Let us know at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. (Photography by Uosis Juodvalkis, EX’68; UChicago Photographic Archive, apf3-02048, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

Oars of yore

Crew team alumni march in the 1976 reunion parade. Though there was no parade this year, Alumni Weekend 2023 featured a Viennese salon tent in honor of College dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75; an expansive beer garden; a food truck festival; pub trivia; and a mini Scav. Read all about it in “Time after Time,” and share your stories of reunion reconnections with your class correspondents or with us at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu.(UChicago Photographic Archive, apf3-02077, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

Show; don’t tell

Mime Marcel Marceau was a busy man. Performing an average of 200 shows per year, in addition to appearing on talk shows (where, yes, he talked) and in films (Barbarella, Silent Movie, and others), Marceau rarely had the chance to interact with students at the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimodrama in Paris. Noticing that Marceau was scheduled to be in Chicago for a three-week stint in May 1984, the French government subsidized travel for 65 of the school’s students and teachers to join him and put them up at International House. Here students learn from the master in a workshop. Shhh … Say, what was the quietest thing you did on campus? We’re all ears: uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. (Photography by Arthur U. Ellis, AB’87, AM’88; Copyright 2023, The Chicago Maroon. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.)

Making the rounds

On a rainy day in April 1991, members of the University of Chicago Vélo Club participate in the first annual Monsters of the Midway Criterium. Nearly 150 collegiate and amateur cyclists competed in races ranging from 10 to 30 laps around the Midway. Though the Big Ten schools were hard to beat, UChicago first-year Renee Richer, AB’94, won bronze in the 15-lap women’s race, and staff member Craig Gartland took first in the 20-lap US Cycling Federation amateur race. Did you ever ride with the cycling club? Did you set a personal best pedaling around the Midway? Share your cycling stories at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. (Photography by Kris Patton, AB’91; Copyright 2023, The Chicago Maroon. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.)

A deal with the devil

Students at the Graduate School of Business (now Chicago Booth) Nils Ahbel, MBA’82; Shipley Munson, MBA’82; and Laurie Dunn, MBA’83, rehearse for their upcoming performance of GSB Follies, Life in the Faust Lane. Fifty students and six professors were involved in writing, performing, and, of course, financing and marketing the May 1982 production. (The show was funded through an interest-free loan from student government combined with the sale of stock in the Follies.) Those involved hoped to show the University community that they were more than just conservative suits and white button-downs. Did you attend the GSB Follies? Or were you busy living out your own Faustian drama? We’ll make you a deal: if you give us a good story, we’ll give you a great Fall/23 issue. Write us at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. (Photography by Bill Mudge, AB’83; Copyright 2023, The Chicago Maroon. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.)