Boyd was a professor and associate dean in the College of Law from 1954 to 1964, then a university administrator and eventually President of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981. He served as President of the Field Museum of Natural History in…
Close Hall, at the northwest corner of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue, housed the University of Iowa School of Journalism from its founding in 1924 until much of the building was destroyed by fire on New Year’s Day 1940.
Close Hall was dedicated in 1890 and located on the northwest corner of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue, the present location of the Biology Building. It housed the Journalism Department before being damaged by fire in 1940 and later demolished.
