Returning students will find a new name on a familiar building this fall.
Almost four months after the name change of Logan Hall was announced, the signs on the building were changed in July to feature the name of famous entertainment journalist and editor of the New York Post's "Page Six" column Claudia Cohen.
In 1995, Ron Perelman, a 1964 Wharton alumnus, University Trustee and Wharton School overseer, was offered the option to rename Logan Hall after donating $20 million toward the renovation of the Perelman Quadrangle, which includes Logan, College and Houston Halls. At the time, Perelman chose not to exercise his right.
Following the death of Cohen - his ex-wife, 1972 alumna of the College of Women and his "best friend" - from cancer in June 2007, Perelman decided that it would be fitting to rename the Hall in her honor.
"No one was more deserving than this alumna who was both an overseer of the University and the managing editor of the University's newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian," Perelman said.
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