Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

This performing arts center at the University of Mississippi is named after Gertrude Ford. As a supporter, an onlooker and a professional, Mrs. Passage occupied with a long-lasting investigation of everything of magnificence and motivation. Not reluctant to bring testing ideas up in writing, particularly in inquiring about the origin of Shakespeare's plays, Mrs. Passage maintained exemplary conventions in the expressive arts.

Conversant in French, Latin, and Spanish, Mrs. Passage was a proficient flute player, violinist, and musician. Exceedingly well-perused in verse and great writing, Mrs. Passage was regularly at the focal point of vivacious exchanges about the benefits of all way of abstract works. Continuously at the very establishment of her soul was an incredible and true love of expressions of the human experience and letters.