Students singing Christmas carols with Martha Rivers Ingram at the Ingram Scholars Holiday party, 2012 Students from the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons North House at Founders Walk, 2023 Lydia Howarth, Chancellor Emeritus Nicholas Zeppos and Martha Rivers Ingram at the Centennial Gala celebration, 2008Defining and advancing the modern VanderbiltDiermeier’s reflections are echoed by Chancellor Emeritus Nicholas Zeppos, who worked alongside Ingram for many years during a pivotal era in the university’s history. In my time, no individual did more to define and advance the modern Vanderbilt than Martha Rivers Ingram,” Zeppos said. Martha Rivers Ingram CommonsThe idea of the residential colleges initiative initially came from Ingram, who remembered how she felt as a nervous freshman at Vassar in the 1950s. In addition to the Ingram Scholars Program, the Martha Rivers Ingram Center for Performing Arts and The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, there is the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center, Vanderbilt–Ingram Cancer Center and E. Bronson Ingram College. Survivors include her four children, Robin Bigelow Ingram Patton, John Rivers Ingram, MBA’86, Orrin Henry Ingram II, BA’82, and David Bronson Ingram, MBA’89, and 12 grandchildren.