Byrne Hall

Byrne Hall
The Academy building was turned over to DePaul University, and renamed Byrne Hall. Bygone DePaul | Special Collections & Archives

Introduction

About the DePaul Emeritus Society

DePaul University values its ongoing connections with its faculty and staff retirees, as it values their past contributions to the university’s mission. The DePaul University Emeritus Society was founded in 2008 with the merger of the Staff Emeritus Society and the Emeritus Professors Association. The Society is sponsored by the University’s Office of Mission and Values.

The purpose of the DePaul Emeritus Society is to provide a means for ongoing connection, communication, and socialization between the university and its emeritus faculty and staff, and between individual retirees whose professional lives were for so many years dedicated to university service.

Photos, events, and information of interest to members of the DePaul Emeritus Society will be posted to this blog. Please take a look, add your comment, offer to be an "author" or just enjoy.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Co-Founder of the Doors, DePaul Alum dies

Ray Manzarek is not a retiree.  He is, however, a DePaul alum who graduated with a degree in Economics.  He is also the founding member of The Doors whose piercing electric organ sound defined their career-establishing hit "Light My Fire" and most of the group's cornerstone songs.  Ray and Jim Morrison decided to form a band built around Morrison's poetry and Manzarek's music.  He passed away Monday in Germany after a lengthy batter with bile duct cancer.  He was 74.

Click here for a "Light my Fire" musical tribute.
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