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Christine Wolski, a 1991 graduate of the broadcast communications program, has won an Emmy Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

For the fifth year in a row, the Pitt-Bradford has been named a Military Friendly School by Victory Media.

On Oct. 16, 1962, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward Litchfield announced that Bradford had been selected as a location for a two-year regional campus to meet the education needs of the region. Four months later, on Feb. 4, 1963, Dr. Donald Swarts, then academic dean of the Johnstown Campus of the University of Pittsburgh, was named president of the new Bradford campus. His task was clear: Work with an advisory board and community leaders to open a new campus by September 1963.

Dr. Livingston Alexander, president of the Pitt-Bradford, knew there was one thing we definitely wanted to accomplish as part of the university's 50th anniversary commemoration.

In the early years of Pitt-Bradford, students relied on family, work and private scholarships to pay for their tuition and fees.

Forty years ago, Craig Hartburg started his freshman year at the Pitt-Bradford. This fall, Hartburg will mark his ninth year as chairman of the Advisory Board. The irony is not lost on Hartburg, who has taken this incredible responsibility to heart as well as his predecessors, Hon. John Cleland and Bill Higie.

Pitt-Bradford has been a land of opportunity for the Satterwhite family, the first three-generation family in the university's history to receive its education here.

Pitt-Bradford is planning to house a portion of the archives of Bradford's most famous daughter, Marilyn Horne, at its downtown location.

The early days at the Pitt-Bradford found staff monitoring students in a dorm that had been once operated as a hotel, professors who taught in classrooms at a former hardware store and office employees who worked at credenzas in a former hospital building.

When it comes to loyal alumni, it's hard to beat Frank '64-'66 and Mary Cattoni Rizzo '64-'66.