During last week’s Board of Trustees meeting
on the Ferrum College campus, friends and colleagues of Col. Earl
G. “Bud” Skeens met for a
private ceremony to dedicate a dynamic new conference center for
college use. Former students, faculty and staff dedicated the new
Earl G. “Bud” Skeens Alumni Conference Center November 3rd with remarks
and a special reception in the stunning Blue Ridge Mountain Room.
A plaque and portrait was also unveiled.
The artwork adorning the Blue Ridge Mountain room
was also celebrated within the Skeens Alumni Conference Center during
the Board of Trustees visit. Trustees, artists and special guests
helped to welcome the
Women Artists of Distinction Collection, displayed around the
perimeter of the Blue Ridge Mountain Room. The artists include: Joan
Bowman, Rachel Denham, Elizabeth Taylor Greer, Carolyn Hart, Nancy
Hart, Susan Loy, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Freda Austin Nichols, Suzanne
Davis Ross, Jane Duncan Stogner, Brenda
Tatum, and Bev Thorton. The collection is open to the public to
view except for special reservations of the room for events.
A high resolution photo of the Skeens Conference Center is available
for download here: http://www.ferrum.edu/news/2006fall/skeens.jpg.
Please credit the photo to Ferrum College faculty Dr. Kenneth McCreedy.
Ferrum proudly welcomed the largest new student
enrollment in twenty years to its Ferrum, VA campus through the doors
of its newly remodeled center. The Skeens Alumni Conference Center,
renovated Franklin Hall Student Center, Beckham Hall and Roberts Hall,
and new apartment-style residence hall Arthur Hall, exemplify a whirlwind
24 months of construction with the most dramatic set of campus improvements
in fifty years. Future phases of development are being fast-tracked
for consideration as enrollment continues to grow.
Ferrum College is a four-year, private, co-educational,
liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Ferrum offers a choice of nationally recognized bachelor’s degree
programs at a cost well below the national average for private colleges.
For more information on Ferrum, visit www.ferrum.edu.
