Crosby Center Introduction

The Crosby Student Center is a one-stop shop for all Zags.  According to Gonzaga's website, the Crosby Student Center offers students, faculty, and staff a central location to “work, study, hang out, and hold meetings.”  The Crosby Center also offers a coffee shop, a US Bank branch, and sells helium balloons, t-shirts, poster enlargements, and activity and bus passes.  It is also home to the campus information desk, which is where students bring lost and found items.

This week, the information desk is holding its well-known annual fundraiser, the Crosby Cafe Garage Sale.  The items sold are the objects collected in the lost and found throughout the year.  You can find anything from vases and clothing to used water bottles and Easter baskets.  One member of our team was able to snatch up a lovely sport jacket for his personal use.

Several of Crosby's Awards are displayed
at Gonzaga's Crosby Student Center.

The Crosby Student Center is named for the famous singer and actor, Bing Crosby, who enrolled at Gonzaga University in 1920 with the intention of studying law (GU website).  While attending school, he learned to play the drums and joined a band called the “Musicaladers.”  

The band was so successful that Bing dropped out of school in his final year to pursue a career in show business.