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January 9, 1870 – Joseph Baermann Strauss, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon president and University of Cincinnati grad, is born. Strauss was a sickly child and spent months staring out a hospital window from downtown Cincinnati at the Roebling Suspension Bridge to Kentucky. He designed the Golden Gate Bridge, and before concrete was poured, Strauss placed a brick from UC’s demolished McMicken Hall into the south anchorage.
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