

"The bell is about five times as big as anybody expected it to be," UA anthropologist Emil W.


It was housed temporarily at the Arizona State Museum. You might even know that the UA home for the iconic bell was intended to be the tower of Old Main - until the bell's sheer size (it weighs well over a half-ton) ruled out the possibility. 7, 1941, rings from the tower of the Student Union Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus. You probably know this much: One of two bells salvaged from the USS Arizona, the battleship sunk in a Japanese bombing raid at Pearl Harbor on Dec. Hetrick has since died, and Bruner, now 96, is one of only five living survivors from the ship. USS Arizona survivors Lauren Bruner and Clarendon Hetrick ring the ship's bell during a visit to the UA campus in December 2015.
