Chancellor Emeritus William H. (Bill) Danforth, M.D., receives a standing ovation as he is introduced before his remarks at the Sept. 17 ceremony in Graham Chapel dedicating the Danforth Campus. “Wow, thank you, thank you,” Danforth said. “I don’t know what to say. I think I should just say ‘Thank you’ and then sit down.”
Keynote speaker Harold T. Shapiro, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, Bill Danforth, and Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton enjoying the ceremony.
Senior Laura Kleinman, a Danforth and Truman Scholar majoring in philosophy in Arts & Sciences, delivers her remarks, which focused on community service.
Dozens of students, along with the WUSTL Bear mascot, surprised the audience by marching into Graham Chapel to lead the guests to Brookings Quadrangle and Holmes Lounge for a reception.
Bill Danforth (right) and alumnus and friend David Habif, M.D., walk from the ceremony in Graham Chapel to the reception in Holmes Lounge. In the spring, the Habif Health & Wellness Center opened on the garden level of Forsyth House at the corner of Big Bend Boulevard and Shepley Drive.
Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, represented the faculty in making remarks about Bill and Ibby Danforth.
Bill Danforth is surrounded by students, including some of the University’s Danforth Scholars, (and the WUSTL Bear) at the reception in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, following the ceremony in Graham Chapel. Danforth scholarships are bestowed upon a select group of incoming students each year who exhibit exceptional “scholarship, leadership, service and the potential to make a difference in the community, both now and in the future.”
Donald Suggs, president and publisher of the St. Louis American, greets Bill Danforth at the reception in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. Suggs is a member of the five-person panel tasked with reporting to the state and the community on conflicting ideas about the next steps for the St. Louis Public Schools, co-chaired by Danforth and attorney Frankie M. Freeman. Looking on are Homer (LA 1949) and Shirley (NU 1949) Nienhaus.
The Danforth siblings — John C. Danforth, Bill Danforth and Dorothy Danforth Miller — are flanked by John’s wife, Sally, and Dorothy’s husband, Jeff, before the reception in Holmes Lounge.