“I was 18 years old when I enlisted as an aviation cadet.” 91-year-old Andy Benedict leaned forward in his chair, talking about events that had occurred some 70 years prior, but in his retelling, seemed like yesterday. “I didn’t want to be infantry. I didn’t want to go into the Navy because I can’t swim. I was scared they would put me in the subs and I was claustrophobic,” said Benedict. “When I was a little kid I remember Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic Ocean, and had this...
After playing squash at a competitive level for 35 years, Professor Emerita Marigold “Goldie” Edwards stepped away from the game in 2001 due to knee problems. Last fall, she was invited to Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she was inducted into the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame. Edwards’ journey to that point began more than 50 years earlier, when she left New Zealand at the age of 26 for Canada and a teaching job at the University of Saskatchewan. And while she played a lot of s...
Oonyu at Pitt studying with assistive technology that translates print and Web text into an audio format. Family. Community. Animals. Crops. And then for Silver Francis Oonyu, it disappeared. He had a short time to create a lifetime’s worth of visual memories, because at age four he lost his sight due to measles. However, 40 years later he traveled from Uganda to the United States, and more specifically, the University of Pittsburgh, to attend the School of Education and earn a m...