Any proper walking tour of Drew's campus begins by climbing the 10 thick stone steps to the broad piazza of Mead Hall, Drew;'s first and forever heart. William Gibbons, Elizabethtown/New York gentleman and Savannah slave owner, built the imposing antebellum mansion in the mid 1830s. It bears the name, however, of Miss Roxanna Mead. She married hometown boy Daniel Drew in Carmel, N.Y., in 1823, when young Daniel, our name giver, had scarcely begun the first misdeeds that would take him to high rank among Wall street's jackals.
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