Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The house that once served as a residence for the president of Wright State University and his or her family is no more.
The building that once stood at the end of the Circle Drive cul-de-sac on the Wright State campus — sometimes called Rockafield House — was demolished in recent days.
Former Wright State President Cheryl Schrader was the school’s first president never to have resided on campus. (Today, Sue Edwards is president of Wright State.)
Former president David Hopkins — Schrader’s immediate predecessor in the office — lived in the university’s Rockafield House for about a year before he moved out.
Schrader received an annual housing stipend of $36,000, which was in line with what most other university presidents received, the Dayton Daily News reported in December 2017. It was something Wright State trustees considered a necessity to compete with other colleges, Doug Fecher, then-chairman of the WSU board of trustees, told the newspaper at the time.
At that time, the presidents of Miami and Ohio State universities were the only two area public college leaders who still lived in houses owned by their institutions.
A spokesman for Wright State said Sunday the house suffered significant damage from surrounding trees a few years ago, when the building served as an alumni house. Since then, the building has remained unoccupied, the spokesman said.
