North Central College in the News

Science center has a new name: the Dr. Myron Wentz Science Center

Jul 03, 2017

Chicago’s Daily Herald featured news about the naming of the new Science Center in its June 30, 2017, article:

North Central College’s new science center now has a new name: the Dr. Myron Wentz Science Center. The same man who gave $10 million for the College’s fine arts center and concert hall in 2003 now has given an unspecified but “substantial and extraordinary” amount toward the science center, which opened in late March.

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Wentz is an honorary trustee of North Central College and a 1963 alumnus who majored in biology with a passion for music. Wentz donated the lead gift for Wentz Concert Hall, named in his honor, and the Fine Arts Center, which opened in 2008.