Logos

Designation

Tribute to Adlai Stevenson II

Donors

Multiple donors including Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, sister of Adelai Stevenson II

How It Purchased

$50,000 gift to the University

Description

Logos was installed as a tribute to Adlai Stevenson II, former Illinois Governor, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and twice a candidate for president of the United States. Created by noted Philadelphia-based sculptor Henry Mitchell, the piece emerges from a circle that was once a working fountain. The sculpture was titled to reflect the spirit of the reason that Stevenson personified. Logos is installed outside Stevenson Hall, the classroom and faculty office building named in Stevenson’s honor and as a tribute to ancestors of the Stevenson family, who helped found Illinois State in 1857. Stevenson was the great-grandson of Jesse Fell, the principal founding father of our University.

Reference Sources

• “Dedication marks U N Day.” The Vidette (Normal, IL). October 30, 1969. https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19691030-01.2.15&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-
• Gura, Jerry. “Logos arouses student opinion.” The Vidette (Normal, IL). October 30, 1969. https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19691030-01.2.20&srpos=2&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN-logos——
• “Logos to get a little lift.” The Vidette (Normal, IL). May 21, 1970. https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19700521-01.2.35&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-
• “Logos, a bronze sculpture created in honor of the late Adlai Stevenson.” The Vidette (Normal, IL). October 28, 1969. https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19691028-01.2.4&srpos=12&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN-logos——
• Meckstroth, Steve, and Mark Schmitt. Campus art: A walking tour of selected artwork on the campus of Illinois State University. Normal: University Marketing and Communications, 2003. 
• “Memorial ‘Flame’.” The Vidette (Normal, IL). July 2, 1969. https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19690702-01.2.6&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-
• “Memorial sculpture arrives.” The Vidette (Normal, IL). September 30, 1969. https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19690930-01.2.23&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-