As the Iran Hostage Crisis led to the cancellation of their visas, the college abruptly lost a large percentage of its students.

That building was later razed to make way for Comerica Park, the new home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team.

[2] In 1971, the S. S. Kresge Corporation, which was moving to Troy, Michigan, donated its downtown Detroit headquarters to the school.

After the college's demise, this building became a part of Wayne State University where it is used as an incubator for startup companies, and is currently referred to as the Metropolitan Center for High Technology.

It gave scholarships to local high school outstanding swimmers for a period of five years before reducing the team size and in 1966, dropped the sport entirely.

Richard H. Austin[9] - Michigan Secretary of State from 1971 to 1995 Julius Goldman[10] – Canadian basketball player, important modernizer of the game Mike Kostiuk[11] – Canadian-born NFL player Ron Milner[12] – playwright James M. Nederlander[13] – longtime chairman of the Nederlander Organization Sugar Chile Robinson[14] – jazz pianist and child prodigy Roy Brooks[15] – jazz drummer Astronaut Wally Schirra was on the faculty from 1968 till 1972 Detroit Free Press chief photographer Tony Spina.