Grave Marker at Forest Hill Cemetery for Conrad Elvehjem, former president of the University of Wisconsin

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Born in McFarland, Wisconsin, Conrad Elvehjem was a biochemist who identified the vitamin now called niacin. He was serving as the president of the University of Wisconsin at the time of his death in 1962. The Elvehjem Art Museum in Madison was named for him, but was later renamed the Chazen Museum of Art after it received a $20 million donation from two alumni.

Photo taken at Madison's Forest Hill Cemetery on New Year's Day 2007

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Madison Guy says:

It will always be the Elvehjem to me (even though I can never spell it -- thank God with a computer I could just cut and paste).

The name change really sucked, especially when they got a relative to say he never liked art all that much. I have nothing against giving big donors their due, but this was going too far. They could have called the new wing the Chazen wing. That should have been sufficient. No need to prostrate ourselves. Would the Metropolitan Museum of Art rename itself each time it gets a major bequest?
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Grave Marker at Forest Hill Cemetery for Conrad Elvehjem, former president of the University of Wisconsin

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