History

The undergraduate college bears the name of one of its founders and principal benefactors. The late Eugene Constantin, Jr. was chairman of the first fund drive and served the university as a trustee from its beginning. Ruth and Eugene Constantin established an undergraduate endowment fund in memory of their son, whose life was lost at Okinawa in WWII and took as their principal interest the welfare of the undergraduate college. Fittingly, in 1970 the Board of Trustees named the college in their honor.