UNO Alumni Center, circa 2005
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The last remaining structure from the former Navy Base is the smoke stack, which was made the centerpiece of the Alumni Center. Former UNO Chancellor Homer Hitt was at the ground breaking ceremony in 2001.
Courtesy of Patrick Stephen
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Naval Air Station & University of New Orleans
In the fall of 1940, the Navy began improving its primary flight training facilities by building up its system of Naval Reserve air bases, including New Orleans. The lakefront base housed a steel…