Bloom Hockey Center?

Kate saw a new sign going up on the outside of Lynah rink (above the exercise bike room) reading "Bloom Hockey Center."

Does anybody have any info on this?

I do realize Schafer is the Jay R. Bloom head hockey coach, but did he give additional money to the renovation?

Maybe it has something to do with the gorgeous invisible new lobby?

Generous donors typically get to name something if the pledge is large enough, with "pledge" being the operative word (remember Alberding Field House?).

I suspect Jay was involved with the project funding, or some specific piece of it that allowed him to get his name up. Either that or some other generous donor wishing to remain low-profile wanted Jay's name on it.

A quick double check this morning confirms:

"Bloom Hockey Center" over the bike room, but "Lynah Rink" over the walkway to the south entrance.

I figured they would put the sign up and maybe make an announcement at a home game, or put out a press release.

Seems to me the rinks at both Brown and Harvard have two names--one for the building and one for the rink. I think the Duke basketball venue is the same--Coach K court and Cameron arena, or something like that.

Al DeFlorio
Seems to me the rinks at both Brown and Harvard have two names--one for the building and one for the rink. I think the Duke basketball venue is the same--Coach K court and Cameron arena, or something like that.

Cornell basketball plays in Newman Arena in Bartels Hall. I think they should get all pretentious and call it Newman Indoor Stadium though.

Al DeFlorio
Seems to me the rinks at both Brown and Harvard have two names--one for the building and one for the rink.

BC also. Kelley Rink and Conte Forum. And Clarkson too, IIRC, though I don't remember the building name. Edit: Cheel Arena is within "Cheel Campus Center." Double edit: that's "Kelley."

Union is something like the Frank Messa Rink at the Achilles Center.

About time Cornell got some more diverse facility names. Maybe there's a version of the Chanukah Song here. How many buildings at Cornell don't have main-line WASP names (180 degrees opposite from Rockefeller, Taylor, Smith, Dickson, White, Baker, Gannett, Lincoln)? Who leads the Ivies in building-name diversity?

Milstein, Duffield, Weill, Bauer, and Appel all add some ethnic diversity to Cornell's campus.

But I'd love to slap a big fat Polish name on one of the buildings: Orzeoscski! Wszniciki! Grabowski!

billhoward
How many buildings at Cornell don't have main-line WASP names (180 degrees opposite from Rockefeller, Taylor, Smith, Dickson, White, Baker, Gannett, Lincoln)? Who leads the Ivies in building-name diversity?

Franklin was...um...overwritten, however.

If the former US soccer team coach forked over a bundle, we could have the Arena Arena.

metaezra
Milstein, Duffield, Weill, Bauer, and Appel all add some ethnic diversity to Cornell's campus.

But I'd love to slap a big fat Polish name on one of the buildings: Orzeoscski! Wszniciki! Grabowski!

Grabowski is not enough of a challenge because it's too easy to figure the pronunciation. The names with a 4-1 constant-to-vowel ratio are awesome.

As for other names, to paraphrase Blazing Saddles, " ... but not the Irish." That said, some splendidly small and powerful structure at Cornell ought to remember Eamon McEneaney, lacrosse '77, World Trade Center '01.