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| Title | Houstonian 1997 |
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| Date | 1997 |
| Description | This edition of the Houstonian, published in 1997, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston. |
| Donor | The digitization and presentation of this yearbook was made possible by a gift from Ms. Lisa Burns in honor of her service as Houstonian editor. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | LD2281.H745 H6 v. 63 1997 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1158762~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Houstonian Yearbook Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This image is in the public domain and may be used freely. If publishing in print, electronically, or on a website, please cite the item using the citation button. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Student Life |
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| File Name | yearb1997023.jpg |
| Transcript | Blue Bell Ice Cream employee Henry Harris offers his service by handing out ice cream sandwiches to participants. Several businesses from across Houston donated food and drinks to participants. photo by: Edmond Vahedi SOPHOMORE BUSINESS MAJOR DONALD THIBODEAUX AND SENIOR PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR DUDLEY BLUITT LINE UP FOR FAJITAS DONATED BY Pico's MEXICAN FOOD. PHOTO BY: Edmond Vahedi Leading^ Student Life I 5,000 Participate in Waik-A-Thon continued from page 28 "We hope to raise $10 million with our various walks," Varoga said . Seventy-five percent of the proceeds raised from the March of Dimes walks funnels directly to research teams. "The money is used in local projects and research grants that our national office awards," Varoga said, "and many of them are given to researchers right here in Houston and Galveston;' Twenty years after Roosevelt created the March of Dimes, a research team led by Dr. Jonas Salk announced that it had developed a "safe, potent and effective" vaccine for polio. Since that day, the March has committed itself to fighting the world's most daunting threat to infants — birth defects. The group has established four goals that it hopes to reach by the year 2000 — reduce birth defects by 10 percent, reduce infant mortality to seven percent for every 1,000 live births, limit low birth weight to no more than five percent of all live births and increase the number of women who get prenatal care in their first trimester to 90 percent. The diligence and dedication that the March of Dimes put in its onslaught of birth defects is felt in communities throughout the country. Recently, the Texas Department of Health reported a 20 percent drop in the infant mortality rate in Harris County. The hope is that in three years, given successful events like this years UH walk, America will have taken a monumental step in ensuring that every newborn is mentally and physically healthy. University of Houston wastebaskets overflow from the thousands of wrappers from blue bell Ice Cream sandwiches. Blue Bell donated the GOODIES AS A TREAT FOR WALkAMERICA PARTICIPANTS. Photo by: Edmond Vahedi March Of Dimes [ 31 Oenior accounting major Irma Lozano sells Cougar paraphernalia to WalkAmerica participants. Lozano and other fellow beta alpha psi members were out early that sunday to raise cougar spirit in the event. photo by: edmond Vahedi |