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White Horse Center
Gifts for the new White Horse Center at Hardin-Simmons University
reached $145,000 by the end of February, according to Richard M. Styles,
senior vice president for advancement. The Center will be named for Dr. W.
O. "Doc" Beazley who has directed the White Horse program for more than
thirty years.
Total cost of the facility will be close to $200,000. Included in the Center
will be the Guy Caldwell Western Heritage Room, named for the 1928 gradu-
ate, rancher, and longtime supporter of the White Horse Program and the
Western Heritage emphasis at the university. Also included will be eleven
stalls for the horses, director's office, dressing room for the riders, tack room,
washing and grooming area for the horses, and storage areas for feed and
supplies.
The White Horses and their riders are known nationwide and have
represented the university in an exemplary way through more than seventy
years of existence. Most recently, they participated in the celebration parade
for the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys in Dallas along with the
Cowboy Band.
For additional information about the Beazley White Horse Center, contact
Mr. Styles at Drawer Q, HSU Station, Abilene, TX 79698, or call 915-670-1260.
Andersen Foundation
The Andersen Foundation of Bayport, MN, has provided Hardin-Simmons
University with a gift of $225,000.
"We are very grateful for 23 years of generous support from the Ander- sen
Foundation," said Dr. Lanny Hall, HSU president.
Richard M. Styles, senior vice president for advancement, said the initial gift
from the foundation in 1969 was $10,000. With this latest cash gift, the founda-
tion has given more than $1.5 million to HSU, he said.
The foundation makes gifts to colleges, universities, cultural programs,
medical research, hospitals, and civic affairs.
Blackaby Scholarship
A Southern Baptist mission leader, Dr. Henry T. Blackaby, will be honored
with a scholarship in his name at HSU.
The scholarship was established by an anonymous donor who has great
respect and admiration for Dr. Blackaby and his ministry. The donor and the
university encourage others who love and respect Dr. Blackaby to contribute
to this scholarship.
Blackaby, who holds an honorary doctor of divinity degree from HSU, is
director of the Office of Prayer and Spiritual Awakening for the Southern
Baptist Home Mission Board, Atlanta, GA.
The scholarship will be awarded to students preparing for ministry.
BOD Spring Meeting
The Spring meeting of the Board of Development will be held on campus
from 8:00 a.m. through lunch on Friday, April 22. New members will be
introduced, and reports from various areas of university life will be presented,
including an update from President Lanny Hall.
A new feature of this meeting will be a forum with the president and the
vice presidents. Each vice president will give a brief overview of his area of
responsibility followed by a question/discussion period. "This will give
board members an opportunity to gain current information to assist them in
communicating and interpreting what is happening at Hardin-Simmons and to
make them more informed members," said Richard M. Styles, senior vice
president for advancement.
Chairman of the BOD is Dr. David "Scotty" Holland from Houston.BOD Endowed
Scholarship Funded
The Board of Development
Endowed Scholarship has been
funded with an initial corpus of
$100,000. Gifts from members of the
Board established this scholarship as
part of the recently completed
Centennial Campaign.
Recipients will be selected by
the scholarship committee of the
Board and recommended to the full
Board of Development. Currently,
one student, Jon Lester from
Abilene, is benefiting from the
scholarship. In the future, several
students will benefit from the
enlarged corpus.
More than seventy-six members
of the Board contributed to the
scholarship, according to James Teel,
assistant vice president for develop-
ment, who has coordinated the
funding of this endowment.
BreierJoins UT System
A veteran HSU administrative staff
member has been hired by the Uni-
versity of Texas System as a system
development officer. Dr. Barbara
Breier, HSU vice president for
development,
joined the UT
System Feb. 1.
At HSU since
1987, Breier was
i-amed assistant
vice president in
1992. She was
S also director of
Breier foundation and
corporate support, and associate
professor of education.
Breier is a TCU graduate who
holds a master's degree from Texas
A&I University and a doctorate from
the University of Kansas.
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