Willard Residential College
| Willard Residential College | |
| Type | Residential college |
| Established | 1938 |
| Master | Gary Saul Morson |
| President | Gabe Bergado |
| Enrollment | approx. 300 |
| Location | 1865 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL 60201 |
Willard Residential College is a residential college . It was built as an all-female dormitory in 1938. The dorm was originally named "Willard Hall," after Frances Willard, a women's suffragist and leader in the temperance movement who served as Northwestern's first dean of women. Willard Hall was renamed "Willard Residential College" in 1972 when the dorm became a part of Northwestern's newly inaugurated Residential College program . It had become the first co-ed housing on campus in 1970.
Notable Willard events include Fall Formal (held in the past at such noted locations as the Sears Tower, the Adler Planetarium, and the Chicago Public Library), Polka Party, and Woo-Au Loo-Au (a grill-out noted for its pudding wrestling followed by a plunge into Lake Michigan). Willard is proud to list notable Northwestern figures, including Nicola Beisel, Gary Saul Morson, Carl Smith, and Irwin Weil, among its faculty fellows. Past Masters of Willard include Gary Galbreath, Carl Petry, Dan Garrison, Shep Shanley, and Irwin Weil. Willard is the largest residential college at Northwestern University.
Notable alumni include Shelley Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (room 420), J.P. Manoux, Seth Meyers, William Bonk, Jeanne Sparrow, David Schwimmer (room 427), Nicole Sullivan, Dave Revsine, Richard Penniston, Richard Kind, and Stephen Colbert (room 114).
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