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Forever Orange

The Story of Syracuse University
By Scott Pitoniak and Rick Burton
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Forever Orange offers a chronological exploration of Syracuse University's 150-year history, emphasising its pioneering role in areas such as gender equality, racial integration, support for military veterans, and scientific advancement. Drawing on extensive research, interviews, and personal experience, authors Scott Pitoniak and Rick Burton present a vivid narrative enriched with hundreds of photographs that celebrate what it means to be part of the Orange community since its inception as a small liberal arts college in 1870.
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This engaging history will appeal most to Syracuse University alumni, current students, staff, and university supporters interested in the institution's unique heritage and social contributions over a century and a half.

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Surveying the university's chronological history, with special focus on how Syracuse led the way in numerous important matters - gender, race, military veterans, and science - Pitoniak and Burton have crafted a book that explores what it has meant to be Orange since the school 's founding as a small liberal arts college in 1870.

Provides a unique look at the diverse people, places, and events that have helped Syracuse University become an internationally renowned research university.

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Surveying the university’s chronological history, with special focus on how Syracuse led the way in numerous important matters—gender, race, military veterans, and science. Forever Orange goes far beyond the parameters of a traditional institutional history.

Authors Pitoniak and Burton have utilised exhaustive research, scores of interviews, and their own SU experiences to craft a book that explores what it has meant to be Orange since the school’s founding as a small liberal arts college in 1870. Through narrative and hundreds of photos, Forever Orange presents SU’s glorious 150-year history in a lively, distinctive, informative manner, appealing to alumni and university friends, young and old.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815611448

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 September 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Syracuse University Press

Illustration: 381 colour photographs

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 266.0mm

Height: 318.0mm

Weight: 2367g

Pages: 344

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Career Development Education & Reference Non-Fiction Rick Burton Scott Pitoniak

About the Author

Scott Pitoniak is a nationally honored columnist and best-selling author of more than twenty books who has spent nearly a half century in journalism. The 1977 magna cumaude graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is a member of five halls of fame and the recipient of more than one hundred national and state writing awards. The Associated Press Sports Editors named him one of America’ s top ten columnists.

Rick Burton is the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. A 1980 graduate of Syracuse’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Burton is the coauthor of numerous books and serves as Syracuse’s faculty athletics representative (FAR) to the ACC and NCAA.

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