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October 30, 2000

A Vanderbilt Haunting

Photo by Jonathan Rodgers

Local folklore has it that the Community Partnership House is haunted. Believers cite unaccountable footsteps, voices seemingly originating from nowhere, and flickering lights as evidence.

 

 

by Alyson Fant

Leaves in the midst of their transformation to crimson, gold and orange crown the trees and blanket the ground. Filtering through those leaves, the early morning sun begins to warm the day from its crisp, dawn chill. As the blue sky increases its brilliance, the first signs of morning life show as squirrels frolic through the lawns and drowsy students amble to their first task of the day. Vanderbilt is enveloped in the majesty of autumn.

However, neither nature nor reason can explain all of the sounds about campus. Within Building 401 -- commonly referred to as the Community Partnership House -- a mystery exists which has puzzled many of its inhabitants for decades.

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New dean named for School of Medicine

Gabbe to succeed Chapman in March 2001

by Nancy Humphrey
Gabbe

Dr. Steven G. Gabbe, one of the most respected academic perinatologists in the United States and a member of the Institute of Medicine, has been named dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Gabbe, currently professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, will assume the position in March.

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Board of Trust to meet

Presentation of the University's highest faculty research award and recognition of two outstanding Vanderbilt staff members are on the agenda for the Nov. 3-4 Board of Trust meeting.

The meeting, the first in which new Chancellor E. Gordon Gee will participate, will also include resolutions honoring three board members who have died since the last full board meeting in the spring.

 

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