Jordan Ballroom

Room Specifications

Floor	Square Feet	Overall Room Dimensions	Ceiling Height
2	14125	125' x 113'	14'
Banquet Buffet Style	Classroom Style	Conference Style	Theater Style
840	528	-	1400

Jordan Ballroom may be used as ABC, A/BC, AB/C with ABC being equal to Room D

Features

• Ballroom
• Cassette Player Built-in
• Adjacent to catering area
• CD Player Built-in
• Data connections
• Satellite Downlink Connection
• Phone line access
• Built-in Projection Screen
• House Sound System
• AV Booth
• Adjacent to registration area

Grace Edington Jordan -- 1892-1985

Grace Jordan taught English, journalism, and fiction writing at four Idaho universities, including Boise Junior College. She was a consistent free-lance journalist, created poetry, and wrote Home Below Hells Canyon which was translated into six languages. Her books were based in Idaho, and she is credited with acquainting people throughout the nation and world with the many facets of the state. Jordan was also influential in forming the Idaho Writer's League and helped sponsor a short story contest from which she published The Idaho Reader .

Jordan was born in Wasco, Oregon on April 16,1892, the daughter of a country doctor and a school teacher, Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Edington. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in English, from the University of Oregon, along with a Phi Beta Kappa Key. Jordan free-lanced for many northwest papers after college and worked as the society editor for the Eugene Morning Register and as a correspondent for the Lewiston Tribune . She married Leonard B. Jordan on December 30, 1924, and moved to a ranch at Kirkwood Bar on the Idaho side of the Snake River in 1933 with their three children.

Jordan is best known for her first book Home Below Hells Canyon (1954), which details the lives of the Jordan family on the Snake River ranch. She and her husband Len lived in Kirkwood Bar until the early 1940's. Her other books include Canyon Boy (1960), The King's Pines of Idaho (1961), The Unintentional Senator (1972) and The Country Editor (1976). With the exception of The Unintentional Senator , her books contain various aspects of Idaho life that she encountered while living in the Gem State. The Country Editor is the sequel to Home Below Hells Canyon , and describes the life of a woman who edits a small town newspaper, while The King's Pines of Idaho and Canyon Boy are novels capturing the culture and history of the Idaho landscape. Jordan also compiled and edited The Idaho Reader (1963), a collection of articles and short stories written by published and unpublished Idaho writers.