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The 1962 Orange Key Society film: please tell us more!
Since it was posted on Princeton’s Campus Life channel, “An Undergraduate View of Princeton University,” produced by the Orange Key Society in 1962, has received unexpected attention. In the film,...
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Hubert Alyea’s Spectacular Chemistry
One of Princeton’s most popular faculty members of the mid-20th century was chemistry professor Hubert Newcombe Alyea ’25 (1903–1996), known for his colorful and explosive chemistry demonstrations that...
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Keeping the donor base informed: Princeton newsreels, 1960–1961
During the $53 Million Campaign (1959–1962) a 13 x 10 foot scale model of the Princeton campus toured 19 major cities and displayed at meetings of the regional leaders of the fund drive. To keep...
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“Princeton University: Conversations that matter,” 1991
After the 1960 and 1961 “Princeton newsreels” featured last week, which marked a new stage in Princeton’s public relations efforts, it is interesting to make a 30-year leap to view a film that was...
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James Baker at Princeton before and after the Cold War
Baker at Princeton In 1949, as the United States and its western allies established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to “contain” Soviet expansion into Europe, James A. Baker III was a freshman...
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“Princeton: A Search for Answers,” 1973
During a morning session of the President’s Conference in the early 1970s, a member of the student panel told the assembled alumni that she had come to Princeton “not to find a way of making a living,...
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“Climates of the Past”
These days, most Americans think of PBS when they think of educational television, but in the 1950s, viewers expected commercial networks to offer this sort of programming. In 1952, New York’s WNBT...
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