James McDivitt - Tributes

Tributes

• McDivitt has a school named after him in Old Bridge, New Jersey, the James A. McDivitt Elementary School. Many of the elementary schools in the Old Bridge Township Public School System are named after astronauts, such as Alan B. Shepard, Gordon Cooper, and Scott Carpenter.
• He also has a building, James McDivitt Hall, named after him, on the campus of Jackson Community College, Jackson, Michigan, where the now closed Michigan Space Center was once housed.
• There is a street named after him In Blue Bell, PA, called McDivitt Drive, built in 1990.
• There is a section of streets on Staten Island NY named after astronauts, and one of them is named after James McDivitt.
• McDivitt-White Plaza is located outside of West Hall at the University of Michigan. West Hall formerly housed the College of Engineering and counts James McDivitt and Ed White among its alumni (McDivitt earned his B.S. and White earned his M.S. at the University of Michigan).
• A major street in Vandercook Lake, Michigan is named after him.