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Three Tennessee Tech facilities officially have new names.
The University’s Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to rename the Learning Resources Center (LRC), Lab Science Lecture Hall, and Alumni Building.
Trudy Harper is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
“We had a long discussion this morning about the significance of gifts like this that make it to the point where we have someone that we can name a building or a center for,” Harper said. “We just want to be very clear about how grateful we are to those families and to the individuals who have made that kind of commitment. Not just financially, but through their efforts over the years.”
The name of the Learning Resources Center will be the Horace M. Jeffers Learning Resource Center. The Alumni Building will be known as the Varsity Building and the Lab Sciences Lecture Hall will now be the Stonecipher Lecture Hall.
The university’s Audit and Business Committee recommended the names for each building. Johnny Stites is the Chairman of that committee.
“I think also that we were cognizant of the fact that it’s our responsibility to name these buildings after these people because of what their families or they have done,” Stites said. “But also, that we should protect those names going forward.”
The Lab Science Lecture hall is named after Harry Stonecipher, who recently gifted the university $1 million for the Lab Sciences Building. The family of Horace M. Jeffers established the Jeffers-Davis Endowment in the late 1990’s. That fund has provided support to the LRC for a number of years.
The name for the Alumni Building comes from the former Varsity Cinema Theater. The theater operated at the current Alumni building until its closure in 2000. TTU purchased the building in 2014 and designated it as the Alumni Building.
