of his brother Orville Wright, who had died in 1948 and was thus ineligible for nomination until the 1970s. NYU's senate waived the 25-year requirement for Orville Wright, allowing him to be nominated during the 1960 election. Thomas Edison, Henry David Thoreau, and Edward MacDowell were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1960. Ten people, including Orville Wright, failed to get a sufficient number of votes and were automatically re-nominated for the next election. Edison's bust was unveiled in June 1961, while Thoreau's was unveiled the following May, the hundredth anniversary of his death. MacDowell's bust was not unveiled until October 1964. In addition, the Hall of Fame hired the Medallic Arts Company in 1963 to create bronze and silver medals for each of the honorees. The company created 99 different designs of medals. Orville Wright was finally selected for the Hall of Fame in 1965, along with Jane Addams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Sylvanus Thayer. Four of the five remaining busts were dedicated in each of the three subsequent years. The first was Thayer's bust in 1966, followed by the Wright brothers' busts and then Addams's bust. The Hall of Fame did not dedicate Holmes's bust until 1970, five years after his election. Sale of campus and final elections The Hall of Fame remained prominent through the 1960s, when the hall and its honorees were covered in the World Book Encyclopedia. Only two individuals were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1970: Albert A. Michelson and Lillian Wald. Subsequently, elections for the Hall of Fame were hosted every three years. Wald's bust was installed in September 1971. By then, the hall's renown had started to decline. Urban planner Robert Moses wrote in 1971 that the previous election had happened largely without fanfare and that the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission did not even mention the Hall of Fame in its reports. According to Charles Parks, leader of the National Sculpture Society, the Hall of Fame's decline could be attributed to the fact that modern halls of fame commemorated living people, honoring "lots of celebrities and very few heroes". In 1973, NYU sold its Bronx campus to the City University of New York (CUNY), which operated the campus as part of the Bronx Community College (BCC). The sale specifically excluded the Hall of Fame, which CUNY officials believed had no value. Following the sale, there was uncertainty as