Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine - People/Opinion

Esther L. Barazzone, Educator & Administrator

Profiles

Esther Barazzone has transformed Chatham from a small women’s college to a co-ed university and is building one of the nation’s leading institutes of sustainable higher education.

I grew up in Bluefield, W.Va., a town of about 16,000, which had no “wrong side” of the tracks — because it was all tracks, for trains moving coal out of southern West Virginia. I lived there with my mother, stepfather and three brothers. Three out of four of my grandparents were immigrants — from Italy, Belgium…

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Issue Quarter Spring
Issue Year 2016
Sub Heading A life’s recounting in the subject’s own words
Sidebar Title Esther L. Barazzone, Ph. D.
Sidebar Sub Title Educator & Administrator
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Chatham University, President & CEO (1992 – present)
Philadelphia University, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean (1987 – 92)
Swarthmore College, Associate Provost and Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations (1983 – 87);
University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations (1982 – 83)
Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, Clinton, N.Y., Faculty member (1974 – 81)

Mount Oliver Incline, Circa 1895

Architecture & Neighborhoods

When the mount oliver inclined railway was built in 1872, it was Allegheny County’s second incline, and an average one-way ride cost six cents.

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Issue Quarter Spring
Issue Year 2016

Allison, Massaro, Olander, Harris, Kaiser, Murdoch, Burke, Copetas

Obituaries

Susan Allison, 75 A longtime resident of Erie and Sewickley Heights, “Susie” Allison helped her husband, Craig, build a number of businesses, including Tollgrade Communications, which became one of Pittsburgh’s most successful public companies during the dot-com boom under the leadership of their son Chris. She later devoted her energies to philanthropy, focusing…

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Issue Quarter Spring
Issue Year 2016
Sub Heading Noting the passing of Pittsburgh citizens

A New Initiative

Nonprofits

John Kane was the quintessential Pittsburgh working man: tough, hard-working, unpretentious, and yet extraordinarily creative. He emigrated from Scotland in 1879, worked for Frick’s coke works, Carnegie’s steel mill and the Pennsylvania Railroad where he became a painter of boxcars for the railroad. Later, emerging as a true artist, he created some of…