June 26, 2000
PRESIDENT EMERITUS Elwin Skiles is flanked at his birthday party by President Lanny Hall (left), and Skiles' children, Sarah Zachry, Ann McGinty and Elwin Skiles Jr.
HSU will name building for Skiles
___ABILENE--A $l million commitment to help fund a new $3 million social sciences building at Hardin-Simmons University was announced last week, highlighting a party for President Emeritus Elwin Skiles on his 88th birthday.
___The building will bear his name.
___President Lanny Hall said family members of Skiles, a former pastor of First Baptist Church in Abilene, are donating funds for the project.
A DRAWING of the new social sciences building that will be named for Skiles.
___Joining the Skiles family at the birthday party were more than 100 Hardin-Simmons staff and First Baptist members.
___Recognition was extended to Skiles' children, Elwin Skiles Jr., senior vice president and manager of public affairs for Texas Instruments in Dallas; Ann McGinty of Houston; and Sarah Zachry of Bethesda, Md.
___The new academic building will house faculty offices and classrooms to accommodate social sciences disciplines of criminal justice, legal studies, political science, history, social work, sociology and the Institute for Leadership.
___One of the classrooms will be a large roundtable room featuring concentric-circle seating for 105 students.
___This domed-ceiling room will be used for daily classroom instruction and special guest lectures.
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