Belmont University recognized Larry Thrailkill with an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree during the winter commencement celebration December 17 at the Curb Event Center. Thrailkill, who has served on the university’s Board of Trustees since 1980, lead the board as chairman during a period of rapid growth for the university. His term as Chairman ends this year. “Larry Thrailkill has been a tireless and generous supporter of Belmont University for many years, and without his efforts, Belmont would not be the university it is today,” said Dr. Robert Fisher, President of Belmont University.
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Belmont University Receives $10.5 Million as Single Largest Gift in School HistoryNew College of Health Sciences & Nursing To Be Named for Business Leader Gordon E. Inman
One of middle Tennessee’s most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders, Gordon E. Inman, has today given Belmont University the largest single gift in the university’s history. His $10.5 million gift will help pay for construction of the new 100,000 square foot two-building health care education complex on Wedgewood Avenue that will house the university’s College of Health Sciences & Nursing. The first of two buildings is currently under construction and scheduled for completion in 2006. The college will be renamed the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing, and the complex, including classroom, office space and a large community conference center, will bear Inman’s name.
State pulls up economic scores – Nashville City Paper
Business Student Awarded Scholarship
Benjamin P. Schooley, a student at Belmont University, has been awarded a Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship for his superior performance in the study of business. Schooley has received a $1,000 scholarship to continue his education in 2004-05.
Schooley is a student member of Beta Gamma Sigma and represents the top percentage of students within business programs accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is based on academic achievement and is extended to the best students in programs accredited by AACSB International. It is considered the highest recognition available to business students worldwide.
New Circle Magazine Released
PT Students “Empower” Children
Belmont University Physical Therapy students planned and participated recently in two Sports Festivals for children with disabilities. Students worked with “Empower Me Day Camp” to put on an afternoon of games and sporting activities for school-age children. Empower Me Day Camp provides summer day camp for children with disabilities, as well as social and recreational activities throughout the school year. A second group of physical therapy students developed and led a morning of fun-filled gross motor activities for children at “High Hopes.” High Hopes is a non-profit therapy and education center that serves both typically developing children and children with special needs. Equipment for these Service Learning projects was provided in part by a grant from the Belmont University Service Learning Task Force.
Belmont University Names New VP For Spiritual Development
Dr. Todd L. Lake, currently the dean for university life at Baylor University, will become the new vice president for spiritual development at Belmont University in Nashville in January, the university announced today. “Dr. Lake brings a remarkable combination of knowing God’s word and doing God’s word,” said Belmont University president Dr. Robert Fisher. “I’m thrilled to welcome him to Belmont.
Pinter to Discuss, Sign New Book, a Memoir of Adoption
Belmont University Professor of English Dr. Robbie Pinter will read from and sign copies of her new book, For This Child I Prayed: Open Hearts, Open Hands, Open Adoption, a personal memoir of adoption, during a special convocation event Thursday evening on the Belmont campus.
Pinter’s book was published in November by Cold Tree Press. It describes the human impulses that lead one woman to place a child for adoption and another woman to adopt that child. They both face only one clear assurance – nothing is certain. The story is enlarged by biblical and cultural narratives that remind us how similar our human quests can be.
SunTrust, Belmont Partner to Return A-Sun Tournament to Nashville
The Belmont University athletic department announced that SunTrust Bank has been signed as the title sponsor of the 2005 SunTrust Bank Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Championship. The Atlantic Sun Conference will send its top eight men’s basketball teams to Nashville to compete for the conference’s automatic berth to March Madness. The entire event will again will be hosted by Belmont University March 3-5 in the Curb Event Center.
PBS To Broadcast Christmas at Belmont Concert Nationwide
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, will broadcast Belmont University’s annual Christmas at Belmont concert, making it available to millions of TV viewers across the country. PBS will carry the one-hour concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, December 22. It will air a second time in the Nashville area on the PBS affiliate WNPT at 9 p.m., Thursday, December 23.
