A Stroll Across The DU Campus

I walked across the University of Denver campus - where I worked for almost 30 years as the Finance Manager of the DU Bookstore - this past week.  It's oldest building, University Hall, can be seen in the photograph on the left.  University Hall was built in 1890, but in the mid 1990s it was renovated and modernized, which took away it's interior Victorian charm, but did allow for such luxuries as electricity, heat, air conditioning, etc. People who worked  in that building were soft, not like our pioneer ancestors, but that's just my opinion.

On the way home, I took a photograph of the new student center being constructed, as seen in the photo on the right. This building is replacing the north side of the Driscoll Center, which was built in 1984, the year I started working at DU, and which housed a cafeteria, pub, student offices, and a new ballroom.  The old ballroom, located across the street in the south side of the Driscoll Center, was converted into the DU Bookstore, where I put in my time during those 30 years. My question is whether the name of the student center will be changed when construction is completed.  That is what happened when what was then called DU's CWC campus in the Park Hill neighborhood of Denver was sold to Johnson and Wales University, and the Lowell Thomas Law Building, located on that campus and named after the famous broadcaster, was closed.  To the dismay of the Thomas family, the new building on the main campus was named the Frank H. Ricketson Jr. Law Building, and now houses the Sturm College of Law.  Another case of what have you done - or given money for -  lately?  The way of the world these days, it seems.