Nordhoff Street, Nordhoff Hall

The classroom building on Nordhoff Street renamed Nordhoff Hall has a most ingenious new name.

You see, Nordhoff Street was named for Charles Nordhoff, who wrote “Mutiny on the Bounty.” But he didn’t write it by himself. His co-author was James Norman Hall.

So Nordhoff Hall actually honors both Nordhoff and Hall, even if no one at Cal State Northridge was aware of this. Or were they?

RICK ROFMAN

Van Nuys