A Look Back: RMU Celebrates 90 Years
Patch takes a glimpse into the Moon-based university's past on its 90th anniversary
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RMU celebrates 90th anniversary
RMU student government leaders meet in 1962, the same year the university purchased property for its Moon Township campus.
courtesy of Robert Morris University
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Robert Morris University turns 90 years old today — the Moon institution first opened its doors Sept. 21, 1921.
In honor of its anniversary, Patch takes a look back through RMU archival photos to catch a glimpse of how the university has grown and helped shape Moon Township.
In 1962, the then-Pittsburgh-based Robert Morris College purchased a 230-acre piece of property from the Oliver Kaufman family in Moon. Since then, its township campus has flourished: This year the university opened a $40 million School of Business complex and its 13th on-campus residence building, Peter Salem Hall.
When the school opened in 1921, it was known as the Pittsburgh School of Accountancy and enrolled 25 students. Today RMU enrolls 5,000 graduate and undergraduate students, 1,700 of whom live on its Moon campus.
Upon the completion of its new media arts building, slated for 2012, the university will close its only remaining Pittsburgh property and be solely located in Moon Township.
Have any old photos of RMU? Send them to Moon Local Editor Jenna Staul at Jenna.Staul@patch.com. We'll feature them in the gallery.
How has RMU helped shape Moon Township?
Tell us in the comments.
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Jenna Staul
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clearfield
10:34 am on Wednesday, September 21, 2011
After graduating Evanston Township High School, in 1968, I attended Robert Morris College, located in Carthage, Illinois, for two years, and then transferred to NIU. The college occupied the former Cartage College campus. Those years were important for me as I moved forward in my education. The instructors were terrific. The town was very small with, what I remember to be, around 150 year round residents. The nearest town was 25 miles away, and that had 50 people living there. It was all corn country! A thanks goes out to Robert Morris!