President Zimmer shakes hands with Joe Mansueto, AB'78, MBA'80, at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library.
More than 200 people turned out Wednesday, September 24, to celebrate the symbolic first turning of the earth for the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library—an event that broke new ground in several senses. As the crowd gathered under a tent near the heart of campus, speaker after speaker noted the significance of putting a new library on that important piece of ground: putting books at the center of the enterprise. Read more . . .
Video of complete ceremony (All videos on this page require QuickTime.)
Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago (video)
Thomas Rosenbaum, Provost (video), and Andrew Abbott, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and the College (video and text)
Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian (video and text), and James S. Crown, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Helmut Jahn, Director of Design, President, CEO, Murphy/Jahn (video), presents his renderings to Joe Mansueto, AB'78, MBA '80 (video), and Rika Mansueto, AB'91.
(Left to right) Helmut Jahn, James Crown, Robert Zimmer, Joe Mansueto, Rika Mansueto, Thomas Rosenbaum, Judith Nadler and Andrew Abbott
Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago, speaks to the University of Chicago community.
The Groundbreaking Ceremony was held on Wednesday, September 24, 2008, at 11 a.m., at 57th Street and Ellis Avenue, at the future site of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, beside the Joseph Regenstein Library.
Click for more photographs of the Groundbreaking Ceremony and of Joe and Rika Mansueto's breakfast with students earlier that day.
Photographs by Dan Dry.
