Building to Be Named After Curators
Honor Ceremony to Be Held Saturday in Memorial Union 
Wednesday, November 19, 1958

Four new buildings serving University students are to be formally named in honor 
of four prominent men formerly connected with the University at ceremonies to be 
held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Memorial Student Union, President Elmer Ellis of 
the University announced today. 

The buildings are the Nurses Residence in the Medical Center groups and two 
residence halls and a dining hall-cafeteria for men in the North Residence Group 
on South Sixth street. 

The men to be honored are: The late Powell B. McHaney, St. Louis, a member of 
the Board of Curators form 1931 until his death in 1943 and for the last 10 
years of that period board president.

Former state Sen. Allen McReynolds, Carthage, from 1945 to 1951 a member for the 
Board of Curators, including five years as president of the board.

The late Isidor Loeb, who served between 1895 to 1925 on the faculty and in 
administrative posts, including those of dean of the University faculty (1910-
16), acting president (1923), and dean of the School of Business and Public 
Administration at Washington University.

The Nurses’ Residence is to be named Powell Bassett McHaney Hall; North 
Residence Hall A, the southernmost building of the new residence hall groups, 
will be Frank Mitchell McDavid Hall; the northernmost building, Residence Hall 
B, will be named Isidor Loeb Dining Hall.

Dr. Ellis will provide at the short ceremony Saturday, to be held in the small 
ballroom of the Union. A brief talk on Mr. McHaney will be given by James A. 
Finch Jr., Cape Girardeau, president of the Board of Curators; on Mr. McDavid by 
James A. Potter, Jefferson City, also a former member of the Board of Curators; 
on Mr. McReynolds by Dr. Frederick A. Middlebush, president emeritus of the 
University and director of the University Foundation; and on Dr. Loeb by Dean 
William L. Bradshaw of the School of Business and Public Administration. 

The ceremony will be open to the public, and members of the families of the men 
to be honored have been especially invited to attend. Among those who have 
indicated they will be present are Mrs. Frank Mitchell McDavid, Springfield; 
Mrs. George Rozier, Jefferson City, daughter of Mr. McReynolds, with her husband 
and their two sons; Mrs. Powell B. McHaney, St. Louis, and member of her family; 
and tow daughters of Dr. Loeb, Mrs. Perome Barker and Mrs. William Wallbrunn, 
both of St. Louis, with their husbands.

Bronze plaques with the names of the buildings are to be placed on the 
structures in the near future. 

Photo Caption:
Four prominent men formally connected with the University will be honored at a 
ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday when four new buildings on campus will be named 
after them. The nurses’ residence (upper left) in the Medical Center will be 
named after Powell Bassett McHaney, St. Louis attorney, who served as president 
of the Curators from 1951 to 1954 and as a board member until his death in 1957. 
The two dormitories (left and below) and a cafeteria (inset) which form the 
North Residence Hall group will be named respectively after the late Frank 
Mitchell McDavid, State Sen. Allen McReynolds and Dr. Isidor Loeb. A native of 
Illinois, McDavid practiced law in Springfield, MO. He served on the Board of 
Curators form 1921 to 1943, the last 10 years as its president. Sen. McReynolds 
was on the University Curators as well as that of Stephens College. As president 
on the University board he was instrumental in the building of a four-year 
school of Medicine. Dr. Loeb, who came to the University as a tutor in history 
in 1892, was dean of faculty of Business and Public Administration from 1916 to 
1925.