Artist: Various

Gregory Hall, housing the journalism school, was built in 1940, and the busts were installed in first-and second-floor corridors. But the outbreak of war effectively ended thoughts of expanding the collection, so that by 1943, the last year elections to the Hall of Fame were held, just eighty-nine men and one woman had been honored, among them, Joseph Addison, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Peter Zenger, Myra Bradwell, and Noah Webster. Only the eight bronze busts, however, constituted its visible, artistic manifestation. That is still the case.