List of Baldwin-Wallace College people
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This is a list of people associated with Baldwin–Wallace College
in Berea
, Ohio
. This includes faculty, alumni and staff
. Baldwin-Wallace is a private college that enjoys a long and rich affiliation with the United Methodist Church
. The College is located in the greater Cleveland
, Ohio
area in the United States
. The College and town of Berea
were founded by Methodist settlers from Connecticut
.
Baldwin–Wallace College
Baldwin–Wallace College is a liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio, founded in 1845. It is home to the Riemenschneider-Bach Institute and the Baldwin–Wallace Conservatory of Music, an internationally renowned music school. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Students receive a...
in Berea
Berea, Ohio
- History :The first European settlers were originally from Connecticut. Berea fell within Connecticut's Western Reserve and was surveyed and divided into townships and ranges by one Gideon Granger, a gentleman who served as Postmaster General under President Thomas Jefferson...
, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. This includes faculty, alumni and staff
Employment
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. Baldwin-Wallace is a private college that enjoys a long and rich affiliation with the United Methodist Church
United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
. The College is located in the greater Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
area in the United States
United States
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. The College and town of Berea
Berea, Ohio
- History :The first European settlers were originally from Connecticut. Berea fell within Connecticut's Western Reserve and was surveyed and divided into townships and ranges by one Gideon Granger, a gentleman who served as Postmaster General under President Thomas Jefferson...
were founded by Methodist settlers from Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
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Academia
- Wayne HammondWayne HammondWayne G. Hammond is a scholar known for his research and writings on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors as an English major at Baldwin-Wallace College in 1975 and Master of Arts in Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1976...
, J.R.R. Tolkien scholar - Dr. Willis HolcombeWillis N. HolcombeDr. Will Holcombe became Chancellor of the Florida College System in October 2007. Prior to this position, Holcombe served as President of Broward College from 1987 to 2004, and returned as interim President from November 2006 to July 2007.-Early life:...
, Chancellor of Florida Community Colleges SystemFlorida Community Colleges SystemThe Florida College System, previously known as the Florida Community College System, is an organization of twenty-eight public community colleges and state colleges in the U.S. state of Florida. In 2009, enrollment consisted of over 800,000 students...
, President of Broward College - William KelsoWilliam KelsoWilliam M. Kelso , often referred to as Bill Kelso, is an American archaeologist specializing in Virginia's colonial period. Currently he serves as the Director of Research and Interpretation for the Preservation Virginia Jamestown Rediscovery project. Kelso earned a B.A. in History from...
, archeologist, and discoverer of the original JamestownJamestown SettlementJamestown Settlement is a name used by the Commonwealth of Virginia's portion of the historical sites and museums at Jamestown. Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America...
colony in VirginiaVirginiaThe Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
. - Larry ShinnLarry ShinnLarry Shinn is president of Berea College, Kentucky. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University....
, President of Berea CollegeBerea CollegeBerea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky , founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students...
, KentuckyKentuckyThe Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
. - Skip GraySkip GrayDr. Skip Gray ranks among the finest performers and professors of the tuba in the world. Dr. Gray currently serves on the faculty of the University of Kentucky as Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, a position he has held since 1980...
, Distinguished Professor of Music, Performance Studio of Tuba and Euphonium, University of KentuckyUniversity of KentuckyThe University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky... - Philip L. WhitePhilip L. WhitePhilip Lloyd "Phil" White was an American history academic and civil community organizer. A tenured professor of early American history at the University of Texas at Austin from the 1960s through 2000, White is acknowledged by many citizens of Austin, Texas, to have been a primary architect of...
, Nationality Scholar and Political Activist in Austin, Texas - Joseph A. RochfordJoseph A. RochfordJoseph A. Rochford is Vice-President of the Stark Education Partnership, one of the nation’s largest local education reform support organizations...
, internationally recognized expert on education reform support and Vice President of the Stark Education Partnership
Leadership and politics
- David Byrd, M.D., Professor in 1880 of Latin, first African-American president of the National Medical Association.
- Henderson H. CarsonHenderson H. CarsonHenderson Haverfield Carson was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born on a farm near Cadiz, Ohio, Carson attended the public and high schools....
, U.S. Representative from OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
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- William L. FiesingerWilliam L. FiesingerWilliam Louis Fiesinger was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Willard, Ohio, Fiesinger was educated in the public schools of Norwalk, Ohio....
, U.S. Representative from OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. - George L. ForbesGeorge L. ForbesGeorge Lawrence Forbes is an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 1974 to 1989, Forbes served as one of the most powerful presidents of Cleveland City Council. He is the former President of the Cleveland NAACP and is semi-retired from practicing law.-Early and personal life:Forbes was...
, Cleveland City Council President, member of Baldwin-Wallace Board of Trustees - Jane Edna HunterJane Edna HunterJane Edna Hunter , an African-American social worker, was born near Pendleton, South Carolina. In 1911 she established the Working Girls Association in Cleveland, Ohio, which later became the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland.-Life:Her parents were sharecroppers on the Woodburn Plantation...
, L.B. 1925, founder of the Phyllis Wheatley Center for the poor in Cleveland, Ohio. - Jay Ford Laning, U.S. Representative from OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. - James Lawson, civil rights leader and minister, worked alongside Martin Luther King in the Southern Baptist Leadership Conference.
- Charles O. LobeckCharles O. LobeckCharles Otto Lobeck was a Nebraska United States Representative politician.Born in Andover, Illinois on April 6, 1852, he attended German Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and the Dyhrenfurth Commercial College in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to Dayton, Iowa in 1869 finding a job as a clerk in a...
, U.S. Representative from NebraskaNebraskaNebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
. - George Norris, U.S. Senator from Nebraska, creator of the Tennessee Valley AuthorityTennessee Valley AuthorityThe Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...
, creator of the Nebraska Unicameral legislature, and author of the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. - Miner Norton, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
- Joseph A. RochfordJoseph A. RochfordJoseph A. Rochford is Vice-President of the Stark Education Partnership, one of the nation’s largest local education reform support organizations...
, Ph.D. Vice-President, Stark Education Partnership. - William Skiles, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
- Martin Sweeney, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
- Robert E. SweeneyRobert E. SweeneyRobert E. Sweeney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a son of another former Representative, Martin L. Sweeney.-Early life:...
, U.S. Representative from Ohio. - Harriet G. WalkerHarriet G. WalkerHarriet Granger Hulet Walker was an American hospital administrator and leader in the temperance movement.-Early life:...
, vice president of Woman's Christian Temperance UnionWoman's Christian Temperance UnionThe Woman's Christian Temperance Union was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." Originally organized on December 23, 1873, in... - Hazel Mountain Walker, L.B. 1919, among the first African-American lawyers in the State of Ohio.
- Amos Webber, judge, biographer of college founder John Baldwin, and U.S. Representative from OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
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Media and entertainment
- Claudia JordanClaudia JordanClaudia Jordan is an American television and radio personality. She is primarily known for appearing as a model on the U.S. version of Deal or No Deal, and for competing on Season 2 of the Celebrity Apprentice.-Personal life:...
, model, actress, a Barker's Beauty on CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
's game show The Price is RightThe Price Is RightThe Price Is Right is a television game show franchise originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and created by Bob Stewart, and is currently produced and owned by FremantleMedia. The franchise centers on television game shows, but also includes merchandise such as video games, printed...
from 2001 to 2003, and "model #1" on the US version of Deal or No DealDeal or No DealDeal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...
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Music and arts
- Khashyar DarvichKhashyar DarvichKhashyar Darvich is a documentary film producer and director. He directed a documentary film about the Dalai Lama, "Dalai Lama Renaissance," which is narrated by actor Harrison Ford....
, Film Director and Producer, Dalai Lama RenaissanceDalai Lama RenaissanceDalai Lama Renaissance is a feature length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich, and narrated by actor Harrison Ford. The film documents the Dalai Lama's meeting with the self-titled "Synthesis" group, made up of 40 Western "renaissance" thinkers who hope to use the meeting...
. - Anthony HollandAnthony HollandAnthony Holland is the Associate Professor of Music at Skidmore College, conductor of the Skidmore College Orchestra and Director of the electronic music program. He is well-known as a contemporary American composer and music technology professor. He has had several world premiere recordings of his...
, composer. - Bill MoffitBill MoffitWilliam C. "Bill" Moffit was an American musician, music arranger and marching band director, best known for his innovations in marching band show techniques and for hundreds of arrangements for marching bands.Moffit was the third director of the Purdue University "All-American" Marching Band,...
, marching band director, composer, inventor of the "Moffit Squares" band drill. - Nancy McArthurNancy McArthurNancy McArthur is an American children's author. Living in Berea, Ohio, she is a part-time journalism professor at Baldwin-Wallace College. She has written fourteen books, nine of which form a series called The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks. The series follows the lives of two young brothers, Michael...
, children's author best known for The Plant That Ate Dirty SocksThe Plant That Ate Dirty SocksThe Plant That Ate Dirty Socks is a 1988 children's novel by Nancy McArthur. The plot centers around two brothers: Michael, a messy child, and Norman, a neat freak. The book has been taught in the American school system. This often takes place during a unit on plants in the third grade, although... - Jill PaiceJill PaiceJill Paice is an American Broadway and theatre actress. Paice attended Beavercreek High School in Beavercreek, Ohio, graduating in 1998. She then attended Baldwin-Wallace College, graduating with a bachelor of music in 2002...
, musical theatre actress, lead in CurtainsCurtains (musical)Curtains is a musical with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and Holmes....
and The Woman in WhiteThe Woman in White (musical)The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins... - Rebecca PitcherRebecca PitcherRebecca Pitcher is an American musical theatre actress primarily known for her role as Christine in the Broadway adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Previously, Pitcher had played Christine in the Phantom of the Opera national tour opposite Gary Mauer...
, musical theatre actress, Christine in Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
's The Phantom of the OperaThe Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,... - Albert RiemenschneiderAlbert RiemenschneiderAlbert Riemenschneider was an American musician and Bach musicologist.Riemenschneider was born into a musical family. His father, Karl H. Riemenschneider,There are two conflicting sources about the name of his father: T. Riemenschneider & L...
(1878–1950), founder of the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of MusicBaldwin-Wallace Conservatory of MusicThe Baldwin–Wallace College Conservatory of Music is part of Baldwin-Wallace College which is located in Berea, Ohio. The main building is Kulas Hall. The Conservatory is home to the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, the oldest collegiate Bach Festival in the United States.-History:The... - James MontgomeryJames Montgomery (composer)James Louis Montgomery is a Canadian music composer, performer, and arts administrator. He is the current artistic director of the Music Gallery, a position that he has held for more than 20 years. He is also a founding member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble with whom he still actively...
, composer and Arts Administrator
Sports
- Bud CollinsBud Collins-External links:*** 2001 interview with Collins*...
, veteran CBS Sports tennis announcer. - Harrison DillardHarrison DillardWilliam Harrison Dillard is an American track and field athlete, only the second male so far to win Olympic titles in both sprinting and hurdling events. Dillard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, attended East Technical High School...
, 1947, U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist in 100 meter dash, and hurdles. Charter member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. - Tim Graham, sports journalist for ESPN.com.
- Norb HeckerNorb HeckerNorbert Earl Hecker was an American football player and coach who was part of eight National Football League championship teams, but may be best remembered as the first head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons....
, first coach of the Atlanta Falcons, won 8 NFL championships as a coach of the Green Bay PackersGreen Bay PackersThe Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
, San Francisco 49ersSan Francisco 49ersThe San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
, and New York GiantsNew York GiantsThe New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League... - Tonia KwiatkowskiTonia KwiatkowskiTonia Kwiatkowski is an American figure skater and coach. She is the 1996 United States silver medalist and a three-time World team member, twice finishing in the top ten at the World Championships. She competed in 13 U.S. National Championships. Carol Heiss Jenkins and Glyn Watts were her longtime...
, bronze and silver medalist in US Figure Skating Championships; finished 6th at the 1998 World Championships. - Scott ShaferScott ShaferScott Shafer is an American football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator for the Syracuse University football team. He resigned in December 2008 as the defensive coordinator for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team after less than one year on the job...
, defensive coordinatorDefensive coordinatorA defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a gridiron football team who is in charge of the defense. Generally, along with his offensive counterpart, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach...
of the Michigan Wolverines footballMichigan Wolverines footballThe Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...
program. - Jim TresselJim TresselJames Patrick Tressel is a gameday consultant for the Indianapolis Colts, and former collegiate football head coach at both The Ohio State University from 2001 to 2011 and at Youngstown State University from 1986 to 2000. Tressel is most notable for his time at Ohio State. He was hired by the...
, 2002 National Championship-winning former Coach of the Ohio State UniversityOhio State UniversityThe Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
football team. - Matt UnderwoodMatt UnderwoodFor the actor, see Matthew UnderwoodMatt Underwood is the play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Indians telecasts on SportsTime Ohio and WKYC Channel 3...
, Play-By-Play announcer for the Cleveland IndiansCleveland IndiansThe Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
on SportsTime OhioSportsTime OhioSportsTime Ohio is a regional sports network in Cleveland and northern Ohio, launched in 2006. It was created to air Cleveland Indians games, and is owned by the family which owns the team. It is also the cable television home of the Cleveland Browns...
Other
- David FerrieDavid FerrieDavid William Ferrie was a pilot who was alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison later claimed to have proven Ferrie's involvement and that he knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Ferrie denied such involvement.-Early...
, allegedly involved in John F. Kennedy's assassinationJohn F. Kennedy assassinationJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas...
. - Robert Overmyer, NASA astronaut.
- T. B. WalkerT. B. WalkerThomas Barlow Walker was a highly successful American businessperson who acquired timber in Minnesota and California and became an art collector. Walker founded the Minneapolis Public Library. He was among the 10 wealthiest men in the world in 1923. He built two company towns, one of which his son...
, businessperson, lumberman, art collector
Faculty
- Robert CrosserRobert CrosserRobert Crosser was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Crosser emigrated to the United States in 1881 with his parents and settled in Cleveland, Ohio....
, U.S. Representative from OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. Taught law for 2 years. - Jane EaglenJane EaglenJane Eaglen is an English dramatic soprano particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Wagner and the title roles in Bellini's Norma and Puccini's Turandot.-Background:...
, soprano with Metropolitan opera, professor of Voice. - Eric FingerhutEric FingerhutEric David Fingerhut is an American politician of the Ohio Democratic party. Fingerhut was appointed the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents on March 14, 2007 by Governor Ted Strickland. This position makes him a member of the Ohio Governor's Cabinet...
, Director of Economic Development Education and Entrepreneurship, State Chancellor of Higher Education. - Timothy Mussard, internationally renowned heroic tenor, winner of the Prix Lauritz Melchior. Professor of Voice.
- John Louis NuelsenJohn Louis NuelsenJohn Louis Nuelsen was a German-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1908. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, as a college and seminary professor and theologian, and as an author and editor.-Birth and Family:John was born 19...
, the first (1899) to hold the Nast Theological Professorship, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchMethodist Episcopal ChurchThe Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...
. - Thomas SuttonThomas SuttonThomas Sutton was an English civil servant and businessman as well as being the founder of Charterhouse School. He was the son of an official of the city of Lincoln, and was educated at Eton College and probably at Cambridge...
, political analyst for Cleveland’s News Channel 5WEWS-TVWEWS-TV, virtual channel 5 , is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio. WEWS has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception, and is an affiliate of the ABC television network...
Staff
- Lee TresselLee TresselLee Tressel was a football coach and athletic director at Baldwin–Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Tressel accumulated a 155–52–6 record in 23 seasons as the head football coach as Baldwin–Wallace...
, football coach and athletic director at BW from February 12, 1925 – April 16, 1981. Lee is also father of BW-Alum and former Ohio State football coach Jim TresselJim TresselJames Patrick Tressel is a gameday consultant for the Indianapolis Colts, and former collegiate football head coach at both The Ohio State University from 2001 to 2011 and at Youngstown State University from 1986 to 2000. Tressel is most notable for his time at Ohio State. He was hired by the...
. Lee was inducted inducted into the College Football Hall of FameCollege Football Hall of FameThe College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
in 1996.