Nobel Laureate Honored in Walk of Fame
October 23, 2003
Members
of the Rollins community are invited to join President
Bornstein as she places a stone honoring the late Donald
Cram in the Walk of Fame. The 1941 Rollins graduate won
the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987. The ceremony will
take place on Wednesday, October 29, at 5:30 p.m.,
outside Mills Memorial Hall.
The stone incorporates pieces of rock from Dr. Cram's
hometown, Chester, Vermont, collected by Dr. Erich
Blossey, D.J. and J.M. Cram Professor of Chemistry; Dr.
David Kurtz, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; and
Charles Callahan, former director of Chapel music and
composer-in-residence.
President Bornstein will be assisted by Dr. Blossey
and Dr. Fred Wudl, Dean M. Willard Professor of
Chemistry and Materials at UCLA, who studied with Dr.
Cram at UCLA and later conducted research with him. Dr.
Wudl will present a program on "Donald Cram and the
Synthesis and Versatile Chemistry of Unnatural Products"
on Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the SunTrust
Auditorium, located in Crummer Hall. The program will be
followed by a reception in the SunTrust Auditorium lobby
and will be open to the public.
