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A piece of Julie Esch Hurvis’s artwork hanging in the newly rededicated center for spiritual and religious life.
Photo by Lucian Baxter.
If you’ve spent any time on the Lawrence campus, you’ve likely seen the names Esch and Hurvis a few times. There’s Hurvis Crossing right next to the Warch Campus Center, the Esch Hurvis dance studio on the second floor of Warch and the Hurvis Center for Film Studies. Soon, however, there will be a new item on that list: the Esch Hurvis Center for Spiritual and Religious Life.
Formerly known as Sabin House, the Esch Hurvis Center will be renamed and rededicated on Tuesday, May 25 at 4:15pm. It will be renamed to acknowledge an endowment from Tom Hurvis ‘60, given to the Center this spring in honor of his late wife Julie Esch Hurvis ‘61. An endowment is a monetary gift that is meant to provide funds for a specific purpose perpetually; typically, only the interest earned from an endowment fund is spent, leaving the prin