UK Board of Trustees Votes to Name Building for David Roselle

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 25, 2011) — The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees today approved renaming the North Hall residence building the “David P. Roselle Hall” in honor of the University of Kentucky’s ninth president.

Roselle had been the only past president, except for the immediate past president, who did not have a building named in his honor.

Jack Blanton, retired senior vice president for finance and administration at UK, and Bernie Vonderheide, retired director of public relations for the university, wrote letters to the Advisory Committee on Naming University Property on behalf of Roselle.  The committee recommended the action to the Board of Trustees.

Roselle served as the university’s president from July 1987 to December 1989.  His announced goal was to achieve national recognition for UK with respect to the quality of its graduates and its scholarship and research.  At Kentucky he quickly became acquainted with the university's supporting constituency of alumni and friends by traveling and speaking extensively throughout the state.  Consistent with his belief that the then new computation and communications technology was of paramount importance to academic institutions, he helped design and implement a strategy for providing wider access to information technology on the UK campus.

Roselle left UK to become the president of the University of Delaware.  He is now retired from that institution and currently serves as director of Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.

MEDIA CONTACT:  Carl Nathe, (859) 257-3200; Jay Blanton, (859) 699-0041.