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GOOD NEIGHBOR: Hillel makes
its meeting spaces available to other groups.
Linda A. Cicero |
FOR 106 YEARS, students
have passed by the white classical revival house with
the rose-lined driveway at the corner of Mayfield Avenue
and Campus Drive. The home was built by Harriett Dunn,
a friend of Jane Stanford’s who had previously
operated a boarding house on campus, and her husband,
Orrin. When she died in 1946, she left the house to
her cousin, math professor Harold Bacon, ’28,
MA ’29, PhD ’33, and his wife, Rosamond
(Clarke), ’30, MA ’32, a well-known and
well-liked campus couple. The University bought the
home from their son in 1998.
Now, the Dunn-Bacon House has a new occupant: Hillel
at Stanford. After a multimillion-dollar renovation,
the Harold and Libby Ziff Center for Jewish Life opened
its doors to students January 10 with a full-fledged
Matzo Ball.
With a full-time staff of eight and a constituency of
2,000 Jewish students, Hillel had outgrown its 700-square-foot
home in the basement of the Old Union Clubhouse. The
new digs, which are available for use by other community
groups, include a computer cluster, wireless Internet
access, a flat-screen TV, a library of Judaica—and
a hidden staircase to the second floor. |
