John Jay Moores is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, and the former owner of the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Moores in the early 1990s
The University of Houston is a public research university in Houston, Texas. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, one of multiple junior college institutions formed in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1934, HJC was restructured as a four-year degree-granting institution and renamed as the University of Houston. Today, Houston is the fourth-largest university in Texas, awarding 11,156 degrees in 2023. It has a worldwide alumni base of nearly 200,000.
UH held its first classes at San Jacinto High School in 1927
Built in 1939, the Roy G. Cullen Building is the first building on campus
University of Houston, circa 1950
A.D. Bruce Religion Center, named after the university's third president