If there was one thing in the world the late Bud Nangle didn’t like, it was cheering in the press box.

As a part of the Homecoming festivities, NIU will name its press box after Bud and Joyce Nangle at noon Saturday.

The ceremony is open to the public and will take place outside the press box elevator on the east side of Huskie Stadium. Relatives George and Barb Shortley will be accepting a plaque dedicated to Bud and Joyce, and the ceremony is expected to last 15 to 20 minutes. Bud’s wife, Joyce Nangle, is unable to attend the event.

Bud Nangle was a patriarch of NIU’s Office of Sports Information and was the school’s first SID. Nangle passed away Oct. 9, 2006, at 87, and was a pioneer in elevating NIU to a major-college status in football.

Nangle served as a mentor to many journalists in the Chicagoland area and was personal mentor to long-time NIU SID and current SID emeritus Mike Korcek.

“I worked for Bud for 12 years,” Korcek said. “There is no better professional and no better person than him.”

Nangle will also be honored tonight at the Hall of Fame banquet in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center, as well as in between the first and second quarter of Saturday’s Homecoming game versus Western Michigan.