Sports team owners, Council ofLearned Societies president at dedications

ANN ARBOR—The name of New York City’s legendary Preston Robert Tisch, co-chairman of Loew’s Corp. and co-owner of the New York Giants, will be the first in University of Michigan history to be displayed on buildings on both the academic and athletic campuses. Students, staff, faculty and the arts, humanities and sports communities are invited to join with Tisch, his family and friends to dedicate Tisch Hall, the U-M’s “front door to the humanities” at 12:30 p.m., Sept. 25. A reception will follow at 1 p.m. Tisch Hall is located near the U-M Diag between Angell Hall and Haven Hall. The U-M community and friends also are invited to the dedication of the Preston Robert Tisch Tennis Building, 2250 South State Street, at 2:30 p.m. on the same day. A reception will follow at 3 p.m. An 11 a.m. symposium on “The Future of the Humanities” will precede the Tisch Hall dedication. The symposium will feature John H. D’Arms, president of the Council of Learned Societies and former dean of the U-M’s Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, as well as Domna C. Stanton, professor of Romance languages and of women’s studies, and Prof. Thomas R. Trautmann, the Mary Fair Croushore Professor and director of the U-M Institute for the Humanities. The symposium will take place in the Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor.

–Robert E. Nederlander (A.B., 1955; J.D., 1958), a limited partner in the New York Yankee Partnership, president and director of Nederlander Organization, Inc., and president of Nederlander Television and Film Production. A former U-M regent, Nederlander is national development chairman for the U-M and honorary co-chair of the tennis campaign.

–Fred Wilpon (A.B., 1958), president, CEO and co-owner of the New York Mets baseball team; chairman of the board of Sterling Equities, Inc., a real estate investment and development firm, and of Pathogenesis Corp., a biotechnology company.

–Alan I. Rothenberg (A.B., 1960; J.D., 1963), chairman of the board of the 1994 World Cup Organizing Committee, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation and founder and chair of Major League Soccer; litigator with Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, Calif., since 1990.

Tisch Hall completes the four-building complex, which includes Angell, Mason and Haven halls, envisioned by campus architects early in the century. The new building, housing the departments of history, English, classical studies, and the Comparative Literature Program, constitutes the geographic center for the humanities at Michigan. The Tisch Tennis Building is the best of its kind in the nation, providing eight indoor courts with ample seating for spectators as well as coaches’ offices, meeting rooms, training and locker facilities, and a Michigan Tennis museum. The building dedications and symposiums are part of the Universitywide celebration for the successful completion of the Campaign for Michigan.

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