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2A - Thursday, October 4, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom
Portrait of a building
One of the University's la:
est donors, Horace Rackha
accumulated his wealth in p
by being in the right place at t
right time.
A lawyer in the Detroit at
Rackham accumulated his wea
by an investment in his neighb<
company.
His neighbor happened to
Henry Ford. Ford convinced Ra
ham to invest in his automol
company in 1903. Rackham beca
Ford's first investor when he t<
out a loan of $5,000 and bought :
shares of the company.
A few years later, Rackham q
his law practice and began spend
his time overseeing his fortunea
philanthropic projects.
One of Rackham's several gifts
the University came in the form
the Rackham Building. Today,
Art-Deco building houses admit
trative offices, an art gallery, sti
lounges, conference rooms and t
CRIME NOTES
Dirty money
claim victims
WHERE: West Quad
WHEN: Tuesday at about11
p.m.
WHAT: Two men defecated on
dollar bills and then threw the
money out of a dormitory win-
dow, the Department of Public
Safety reported. The caller
watched people pick up the
money. The incident is being
handled by housing staff.
Caller spots
graffiti artist
WHERE:800 block of South
University Avenue
WHEN: Tuesday at about 6:30
a.m.
WHAT: A man was spotted
spray painting "Who's got
it?" in black paint on eight
cement pillars near the Shapiro
Undergraduate Library, DPS
reported. Maintenance was
notified. The man, who was
gone when officers arrived, did
auditoriums.
Construction of the building
began in 1936 and was completed in
June of 1938. Thirty buildings, many
of them students' houses, had to be
demolished to make room for the
school.
The project was funded by
money from a $6.5 million gift to
the University from Rackham.
Two and a half million dollars of
the gift was spent on the build-
ing, while the other $4 million
was used to establish an endowed
research fund.
In his will, Rackham established
the Horace H. Rackham and Mary
A. Rackham Fund to advance higher
education and research.
At the time of his death in 1933,
the fund had more than $14 million
in it. Donations from the fund are
still given to the University each
year.
The site of Rackham also hadan
interesting history prior to the con-
struction of the building. The land
between Huron Street and East
Washington Street served as the
state's first Jewish cemetery. The
cemetery was established in 1848
next to the public cemetery and
was run by the Jews Society of Ann
Arbor.
In 1900 the remains of those bur-
ied in the cemetery were re-interred
in the Forest Hill Cemetery on
Observatory Street.
The Beth Israel Congregation
and the Jewish Historical Society
of Michigan placed a. state his-
torical marked in the northeast
corner of the property to com-
memorate the original cemetery
site in 1983.
In addition, to the building, Hor-
ace Rackham gave several other
gifts to the University, including
$100,000 for graduate student loans
and his personal collection of law
books.
KYLE SWANSON
BtN SIMON/Daily
The facade of the Rackham Building. Made of Indiana
limestone and completed in the summer of 1938, it
houses the Rackham Graduate School.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
about $200 of damage.
Donation jar
stolen from
carillon
WHERE: Burton Memorial
Tower
WHEN: Tuesday at about 12:45
p.m.
WHAT: A donation jar con-
taining $30 was stolen, DPS
reported. An investigation is
ongoing, the suspects in the
case wrote their names on a
sign-in sheet for the building.
Eight pillows,
bucket taken
from hospital
WHERE: University Hospital
WHEN: Tuesday at 8 a.m.
WHAT: Hospital security
called to report that someone
stole eights pillows and a buck-
et, DPS reported. Police have
no suspects.
Job fair 2007
WHAT: The second day of a
job fair featuring more than
90 companies. Students must
bring their MCards.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: Today from 2 to 6
p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
Yoga workshop
WHAT: A yoga and media-
tion session. Beginners are
welcome. A $3 donation is
suggested.
WHO: Yoga and Vedic Wis-
dom Society
WHEN: Today from 8to 9:15
p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Room,
Michigan League
Poetry reading
WHAT: Poet Richard Jack-
son will read.
WHO: Zell Visiting Writers
Series
WHEN: Today at 5 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Amphi-
theatre, Rackham Building
NAACP leader .
to talk on race
WHAT: A lecture titled
"The Betrayal of Brown: The
Struggle Over the Place of
Race in America."
WHO: Theodore Shaw, the
outgoing director-counsel
and president of the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund
WHEN: Today at 9 a.m.
WHERE: Mendelssohn The-
ater, Michigan League
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(What will the next president
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A miniature dachshund
discovered a 2-million
year-old fossilized mam-
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beach, the Daily Mail report-
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dig up the 8 lb. section of thigh
bone by herself - she needed
the help of her owner to com-
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The U.S. Air Force called
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terday, ABC News reported.
Fossett' single-engine plane
has been missing since Sept.
4, when he did not land on his
private airstrip in Nevada as
expected.
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