Remembering Chancellor Emeritus Bepko
September 08, 2023

Vice President Dan Quayle, left, and IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko shake hands in 1991. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Hundreds of photos of Gerald “Jerry” Bepko, who served as IUPUI chancellor from 1986 to 2003, are preserved in IUPUI Special Collections and Archives. IUPUI Today searched the Image Collection and found pictures of campus groundbreakings, ceremonies honoring his achievements and candid moments during formal and informal events.


Photographers film Bepko in 1986, the year his tenure as IUPUI chancellor began. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives


Bepko, center, participates in a groundbreaking ceremony for University Library in 1990. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives

Then Vice President Dan Quayle, left, and Gerald Bepko chat at an event in 1991. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives


Gerald Bepko spends time with kids at the campus child care center during the holiday season in the 1990s. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives

Bepko gets in the Halloween spirit in October 2002. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives

Gerald Bepko is awarded his second Sagamore of the Wabash, one of the state’s highest honors, in 2003. From left: Judy O’Bannon, Jean Bepko, Gerald Bepko and former Indiana Governor Frank O’Bannon. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives

Charles Bantz, left, and Gerald Bepko look at a bust of Bepko in 2003. Bantz succeeded Bepko as IUPUI chancellor. Photo provided by IUPUI University Library, Special Collections and Archives

IUPUI Chancellor Emeritus Gerald Bepko, left, is awarded the University Medal from former IU President Michael McRobbie in 2015. Photo by Liz Kaye, Indiana University
