scholarship at UCLA was named for him. The Ralph Bunche Committee, in the UCLA Alumni Association's Alumni Scholars Club, is named for him. A scholarship at Colby College was named for him Memorials On February 11, 1972, the site of his birth in Detroit was listed as a Michigan Historic Site. His widow, Ruth Bunche attended the unveiling of a historical marker on April 27, 1972. On January 12, 1982, the United States Postal Service issued a Great Americans series 20¢ postage stamp in his honor. In 1996, Howard University named its international affairs center, a physical facility and associated administrative programs, the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center. The center is the site of lectures and internationally oriented programming. Buildings Colgate University has the Ralph J. Bunche House which is a housing option available to juniors and seniors and can also be home to special interest groups. Bunche Hall, named in his honor, at UCLA. A bust of Dr. Bunche was erected at the entrance The Ralph J. Bunche Library of the U.S. Department of State is the oldest Federal government library. Founded by the first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, in 1789, it was dedicated to and renamed the Ralph J. Bunche Library on May 5, 1997. It is located in the Harry S. Truman Building, the main State Department headquarters. A neighborhood of West Oakland, home to Ralph Bunche High School, is also known as "Ralph Bunche". Elementary schools were named after him in Midland, Texas; Markham, Illinois; Flint, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Ecorse, Michigan; Canton, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Carson, California; Metairie, Louisiana; Anne Arundel County, Maryland and New York City; high schools were named after him in West Oakland, California and King George County, Virginia (Ralph Bunche High School). The Dr. Ralph J. Bunche Peace and Heritage Center, his boyhood home with his grandmother, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places and City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Landmarks, HCM #159. The building has been restored and is operated as an interpretive house Museum and Community Center. In Glasgow, Kentucky, the Liberty District-Ralph Bunche Community Center, to support community relations and cultural understanding, was named in his honor. Parks Ralph Bunche Park was named for him in New York City; it is located across First Avenue from the United Nations headquarters. Near Fort Myers, Florida, historically black beaches in the