Honoring Vernon Jordan

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Photos by BRAND SELVIA, Staff Writer

As part of the festivities leading up to the inauguration of Lori White as DePauw University’s new president, the campus community honored one of its own Thursday afternoon with its newest dormitory being named in honor of 1957 graduate Vernon Jordan Jr. Jordan, who passed away last March, was distinguished as a civil rights leader and executive and earned recognition from numerous institutions.

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Is this where the old Hogate Hall stood?

-- Posted by donantonio on Fri, Oct 1, 2021, at 7:08 PM
No. It's south of where Hogate was.

-- Posted by NC2021 on Sat, Oct 2, 2021, at 11:45 AM
Actually north of the “old” Hogate Hall. Sits at corner of S. locust and Olive St.

-- Posted by Shoelace on Sun, Oct 3, 2021, at 1:44 PM

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