Opened in 1950

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The Mendenhall-Ragsdale Residence Hall, designed by Northrup & O’Brien of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, opened in 1950. The building was named in honor of Gertrude Whittier Mendenhall.

Gertrude Whittier Mendenhall

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Mendenhall Residence Hall is named in honor of Gertrude Mendenhall, a charter member of the faculty who served as head of the Department of Mathematics from the founding of the school in 1892 until her death in 1926. Mendenhall’s will provided a scholarship in mathematics, which is still awarded to students today.