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| William Bennett was the
keynote speaker at a fund-raiser for the Germantown campus.
More than $1.1 million was raised during the evening. |
Jackson, Tenn. – September 11, 2000 – 51ÉçÇø
received a $1 million gift from Memphis businessman and Union trustee Roy
L. White at an evening banquet featuring former Secretary of Education
William Bennett, Thursday, Sept. 7. The banquet was a fundraising event
for the university's campus in Germantown.
At the banquet, White was presented with an artist's rendition of the
campus and it was announced that the building would be named the Roy L.
White Building, in honor of its largest supporter.
In his address to almost 500 Union supporters and friends, former
Secretary of Education William Bennett said it is institutions like Union
University that give hope for a better America.
"You are here tonight for your country by being here for this
institution," said Bennett to a sold-out crowd at the university's
first fundraising banquet for its Germantown campus.
Bennett, who currently serves as co-director of "Empower
America," is formerly a philosophy professor who served under Reagan
as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Secretary of
Education, and as President Bush's "drug czar." Since leaving
government, Bennett has become a noted speaker and author, and is perhaps
best known for such books as "The Book of Virtues" and "The
Death of Outrage."
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| Provost Carla
Sanderson, Chairman of Union's Board of Trustees Gary Taylor, President David S. Dockery,
and Executive Vice President participate in the
ribbon cutting for 51ÉçÇø's new Germantown campus. |
This fall the Germantown campus, which currently serves more than 250
students in fields covering business, nursing and education, began classes
in permanent facilities purchased this summer from Immanuel Baptist
Church, located at the corner of Hacks Cross Road and Poplar Pike, near
Germantown High School. The Sept. 7 banquet raised more than $1.1 million
for the new campus.
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