By Ryleigh Lord, Assistant News Editor
• March 20, 2023
Angel Mary Joseph is one of many people who have visited Heinz Memorial Chapel this month for its “Women in the Windows” tour, which highlights different historical women who are memorialized in the chapel’s stained-glass windows.
The Heinz Chapel Choir, Men’s Glee Club and Women’s Choir started to return to their musical holiday concerts on Nov. 30, after a year of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They performed online last year over Zoom without audience members.
Lantern Night, one of Pitt’s oldest traditions, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year looked quite different as first-year students placed LED candles in their dorm windows.
Apart from their historical importance, Emily Dickinson, Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale all share one thing in common — they’re featured figures on the windows of Heinz Chapel.
By Charlie Taylor, Senior Staff Writer
• January 6, 2020
On the surface, Taiwanese folk music, Radiohead and contemporary a cappella represent three vastly different and conflicting styles of music. The Slippery Rock University Percussion Ensemble would beg to differ.
On a cold winter night, about 50 people of different ethnicities, ages and faiths huddled together in the front rows of Heinz Chapel for Pitt’s annual interfaith service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
When Bill Young overheard a Pitt Pathfinder telling a student about the legend of Heinz Chapel, he thought the legend was a myth.The young director of Communication Services at Pitt listened as a tour guide told a prospective student and his grandparents that couples who kiss on the steps of Heinz Chapel are destined to wed there and enjoy a long marriage.The elderly couple turned to each other with knowing smiles. “It’s absolutely true,” the grandparents, who wed in the Chapel, said.Even though
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