Ropp Center: The oldest existing building on the Tech campus

The oldest existing building on Louisiana Tech's campus is the Ropp Center.

The Ropp Center served as the home of seven Louisiana Tech Presidents until a new president's house was built in 1972 on the west side of Tech's campus.

In 2002, a $ 1 million renovation was completed to transform the Ropp Center into a faculty and staff club that is used for special events and housing for on-campus guests.

Robert Sylvester de Ropp ( 1913 – 1987 ) was a biochemist and a researcher and academic in that field.

Robert de Ropp was born in London, England in 1913, the son of William de Ropp and his wife Ruth de Ropp ( née Fisher ).

Robert de Ropp had also contracted the flu during the pandemic, and by the time he fully recovered from its ravages he was seven years old.

In this earlier portion of his life, de Ropp was active in plant physiology and cancer research.

De Ropp went regularly to Lyne Place for " work " weekends from 1936 to 1945 and was particularly attached to Madame Ouspensky as a deeply insightful guide, until 1940.

" Ouspensky was no longer a teacher ," de Ropp opined in his autobiography.

" Sredni Vashtar " was further adapted with two other Saki stories for a 2007 broadcast on BBC4 titled Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?

He then joined his brothers in running a bakery, and also indulged his artistic side by writing a number of unpublished short stories, as well as plays with former classmate Hubert Ropp.

However, de Ropp felt the Ouspenskys ' milieu had by this point become stagnant and ineffective, and he became disillusioned about the work.

Shortly after, de Ropp's father obtained work as an agent for an aircraft company in Berlin and, taking his wife there with him, abandoned Robert in the rambling ruin of the family home where he lived with a family of Latvians attached to the old de Ropp baronial estate.

During a 10-year period when de Ropp worked for the Lederle Laboratories ( near Pearl River, New York ), he wrote a book in the field of psychoactive substances ( many of which are plant-derived ) for the general reader: Drugs and the Mind.

* E. Jack Davis & R. S. De Ropp Metabolic Origin of Urinary Methylamine in the Rat Nature 190 ( 13 May 1961 ) 636 – 637

During the World War II years, de Ropp worked as a bacteriologist and plant biologist.

De Ropp wrote most of his books during his Sonoma County years.

To support his family and finance their transition into the direct economy of living from the land and ocean, de Ropp worked until 1973 as a research scientist at the University of San Francisco.

Ropp, Louisiana Tech's President from 1949 to 1962.

* R. L. Ropp, president of Louisiana Tech from 1949 to 1962

* R. L. Ropp, the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, from 1949 to 1962, graduated from Latty High School in 1913.

Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.

* R. L. Ropp, professor of speech and head of the forensics department ; president of Louisiana Tech University from 1949 to 1962

Albert's brother Theodoricus is the progenitor of the family de Raupena ( de Ropa, known today as " von der Ropp ") that founded manors in Livonia and Courland.

After his retirement from the profession, de Ropp brought other long-time personal interests to the fore as an author.

The de Ropp family had been land-owning barons in Lithuania.

After Robert's recovery from the flu, his father sent him to board at a prep school and during the school holidays de Ropp lived with various relations on his mother's side including an aunt in Leicestershire and a great aunt at Salisbury.

Though subsequently questioning the premises of formal religion, de Ropp had his first spiritual experience during his confirmation.

in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.

Because Don was leaving the next day, I spent the evening with him at Asia Center.

A 12-year-old girl, Susan Elaine Smith, 9329 NE Schuyler St. was in serious condition Friday at Bess Kaiser Hospital, victim of a bicycle-auto collision in the Gateway Shopping Center, parking area, Deputy Sheriff W. H. Forsyth reported.

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

So Gilruth was given authority to grow his organization into a new NASA center, the Manned Spacecraft Center ( MSC ).

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, the sixteen-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center as well as VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

On September 11, 2001, Omari boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

There was a large, permitted march by members of the AFL-CIO, and other unauthorized marches by assorted affinity groups who converged around the Convention Center.

New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 ( total of 18 performances ) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show " Live at Lincoln Center " on November 7, 1990.

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas was dedicated in 2004.

The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in his honor on December 5, 2001.

" Later in his SIU tenure, Fuller was also a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville, where he designed the dome for the campus Religious Center.

The resulting traffic jams are cited as contributing to the death of another person, a heart attack victim who died en route to Boston Medical Center when his ambulance was caught in one such traffic jam two weeks after the collapse.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

Landfill material from construction of the World Trade Center was used to add land.

Olympia and York, of Toronto, was named as the developer for the World Financial Center in 1981, who then hired Cesar Pelli as the lead architect.

By 1985, construction was completed and the World Financial Center saw its first tenants.

Upon return the air in the area was still filled with toxic smoke from the World Trade Center fires that persisted until January 2002.

At that time, survivor Clive Doyle was living at the Mount Carmel Center with supporter Ron Goins, operating a small visitor museum as well as holding weekly Bible studies on the Sabbath.