{"id":4913,"date":"2023-08-15T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2023-08-15T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:53:32","slug":"popup-exhibit-the-life-and-times-of-hooter-t-owl-and-the-temple-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2023\/08\/15\/popup-exhibit-the-life-and-times-of-hooter-t-owl-and-the-temple-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Popup Exhibit: The Life and Times of Hooter T. Owl and the Temple T."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On August 1, Temple unveiled a new athletics logo to replace the former mark created over 30 years ago. Acknowledging the university\u2019s mascot, athletic traditions, and the legacy of Temple, the new logo draws its inspiration from the past while looking toward the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The owl has been Temple\u2019s symbol and mascot since its founding in 1884, when it was still a night school, thus the \u201cnight owl\u201d moniker. In 1977, the university held a \u201cName the Owl Contest.\u201d Victor E. Owl I, was the winner selected among over 1000 entries. Stephany Gustauskas, secretary to the associate provost, won the contest and the prize included an autographed football signed by the team and coaches, tickets to the last game played at Veterans Stadium and an invitation to the Football Banquet Dinner. In 1983, Temple held another contest to name the new mascot, Victor\u2019s descendent, with the winner receiving a 19\u201d portable color television. The winning name, Hooter, was introduced during a Temple vs. Dayton basketball game on January 17, 1984. Hooter was joined briefly in the mid-2000\u2019s by T-Bird and Baby Owl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just as the Temple \u201cT\u201d, created by graphic design students in Tyler\u2019s School of Art and Architecture in 1983 was Temple made, so was the new owl logo designed by Joe Basack, a former Tyler graduate.  Basack collaborated with students Associate Professor Bryan Satalino\u2019s senior capstone course in graphic and interactive design to create the new branding. The diamond shape, an iconic symbol recalling Temple founder Russell Conwell\u2019s \u201cAcres of Diamonds\u201d speech, has been added to the Temple T along with the updated owl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this month\u2019s Pop-Up exhibit are displayed some of the past logos, and various adaptations of Hooter T. Owl<\/a>, and the Temple T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-\u2013Ann Mosher, BA II, SCRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 1, Temple unveiled a new athletics logo to replace the former mark created over 30 years ago. Acknowledging the university\u2019s mascot, athletic traditions, and the legacy of Temple, the new logo draws its inspiration from the past while looking toward the future. The owl has been Temple\u2019s symbol and mascot since its founding … Continue reading Popup Exhibit: The Life and Times of Hooter T. Owl and the Temple T.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,25,79,6],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-archives","tag-history-news","tag-temple-history","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}