Talk about your full-circle moments.

Forty-two years after Robin Roberts graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University, she returned to the Hammond campus last week to cut the ribbon on a building named in her honor.

The Robin Roberts Broadcast Media Center is now part of the newly renovated and expanded D Vickers Hall, known as the Humanities Building when ABC's "Good Morning America" co-anchor walked its halls in the process of earning her degree in communication. There was no such degree when Roberts started out at SLU in 1979 — that didn't come about until her senior year.

And the extent of television broadcasting resources at the university at that time? A Beta camera (Betacam) and an editing deck, Roberts recalls.

Those were the days, as they say.

Cutting the ribbon

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