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Adkins Field House project receives major gifts
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than $5 million has been pledged toward the construction
of the athletic field house. The facility will be the
headquarters for CCU's athletic department. Situated at
the north end of Brooks Stadium, the proposed $8.6 million,
43,000-square foot facility will house coaches' offices,
a 9,000 square-foot weight room to accommodate CCU's 17
Division I sports, new locker rooms, meeting rooms, an
academic study lounge and 2,100 additional seats in the
end zone in the front of the building. The facility will
also house the Buddy Sasser Hall of Fame. Additional seating
for Brooks Stadium will be in front of the building. Construction
for the field house is expected to begin in 2007.
Adkins Field House
Field House groundbreaking: CCU Board of Trustees Chairman Charles Hodge, Will Adkins, President Ingle, Mark Adkins and Carson Benton |
Twin brothers Mark and Will Adkins, members of Coastal Carolina University's Class of 1989, have made a pledge of $1.5 million toward funding Coastal's athletic field house, which will be named in their honor. It is the largest pledged gift the institution has ever received from alumni. This gift is in addition to a $300,000 pledge the brothers made to the project in February 2006, making their total pledge $1.8 million.
Originally from Huntington, W.Va., the Adkins brothers own a land development business, Adkins Land Group, based in Charlotte, N.C. The company, founded by the brothers in 1993, employs 120 people and conducts projects throughout the Southeast.
"We were at Coastal Carolina from ages 18 to 22," said Will Adkins. "These are the formative years of your life. We made great friends here, and we feel that Coastal helped 'mold' us."
"The athletic program at Coastal, particularly football, has been a major factor in the growth of Coastal over the past few years," said Mark Adkins, "and it gives us a feeling of pride to be able to help, and to be a part of that growth."
The brothers, who both majored in business administration, live in Cornelius, N.C., where they are next-door neighbors.
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James C. Benton Field
Coastal Carolina University's football field in Brooks Stadium has been named the James C. Benton Field in honor of a major gift the Benton family of Myrtle Beach recently made toward the field house project. The official dedication of James C. Benton Field was held at halftime of the Coastal vs. Furman football game on Saturday, Oct. 7.
"Coastal Carolina University is growing and creating a lot of great things for our community," said Lawton Benton of C.L. Benton and Sons. "We want to be a part of that energy and help Coastal become the great university it is poised to be. If you can educate people, it will lift up the entire community."
C.L. Benton and Sons is a Myrtle Beach-based private construction company founded in 1938 by Casper L. Benton. James Benton and his sons Lawton and Carson and their employees have built a company that is a leader in the construction industry in South Carolina.
"Football has generated a lot of excitement and created a lot of opportunities for the university. We have a great facility now; we just need to continue to improve upon what we have to help take Coastal Carolina to that next level," Benton said.
Other recent major donors toward the field house project include:
- Gary and Brenda Spadoni Urquhart
- Strand Orthopedic Associates and
Strand Orthopedic Consultants
- Charles Hodge
- Larry Lyles and family
- Bill Biggs
- Marshall Biddle and Family
- Sam and Patty McInnis
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CCU alumnus establishes pre-law endowed scholarship
Timothy Meacham | Coastal Carolina University alumnus Timothy Meacham recently made a $30,000 pledge to CCU to establish the Edgar Dyer Pre-Law Endowed Scholarship.
The annual scholarship will be awarded to a rising senior at Coastal who is planning to attend law school. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage recipients to use their legal training to serve the public good. The recipient will be chosen by faculty members from the departments of history and political science. |
Potential recipients will be designated by the chairs of these departments from a list of candidates meeting the scholarship criteria determined by Coastal's Office of Financial Aid. The Horry County Bar Association will also be represented on the faculty committee.
Meacham, a Conway attorney, was named Coastal's Distinguished Alumnus of 2005.He graduated magna cum laude from CCU in 1979, earning a bachelor's degree in government and international studies. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1982. Meacham served as president of Coastal's Alumni Association in 1997-1998, and he has served on the 15th Judicial Circuit as an assistant solicitor since 2003.
Eddie Dyer |
Meacham named the scholarship for one of his Coastal professors, Edgar (Eddie) Dyer, who now serves as university counsel and vice president of university relations. Dyer has been a member of Coastal's political science faculty since 1976. He was the first recipient of the HTC Teacher-Scholar Lecturer Award and has also received the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Student Development Award, and he is an honorary inductee of the CCU Athletic Hall of Fame. |
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Floyd Family gift to expand mentoring program
The Dalton and Linda Floyd Family Mentoring Program has been established at Coastal Carolina University in honor of a $250,000 gift that will expand the university's mentoring program and provide a model for mentoring programs statewide.
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Coastal initiated the program
three years ago, pairing university students with
children from area public schools. The program aims
to improve South Carolina's low high school graduation
rate by connecting college students with children
who may benefit from some extra encouragement. During
the 2006 fall semester, more than 300 Coastal students
have served as mentors to fourth- and eighth-graders
in 25 Horry County elementary and middle schools.
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| (From left:) Dalton "Ford" Floyd III (son), Dalton Floyd Jr., wife Linda Floyd and son Blake Floyd. Not pictured are daughter Terry Norwood and son Brad Floyd. |
Coastal's
board of trustees recently voted to expand the mentoring
program, making it a cornerstone of the university experience.
The board's action indicates the institution's commitment
to the program, and the Floyd gift will facilitate this
initiative.
Floyd, a Surfside Beach attorney, served on the South
Carolina Commission on Higher Education from 1996 to 2005.
While he was chairman of the commission he championed
the "mentoring" concept and was instrumental in starting
the pilot mentoring program at Coastal in 2003. He be-lieves
in the program and feels that his family's gift is an
investment in the future. "It was understood in our family
that we would give back, and that there were things that
we could do to help those who could not help themselves,"
said Floyd, who was awarded South Carolina's highest civilian
honor, the Order of the Palmetto, in 2005.
The mentoring program is named for Floyd, his wife Linda, and children Terry Norwood, Blake, Brad and Ford.
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AVX establishes finance professorship
AVX Corporation has made a $200,000 gift to Coastal Carolina
University to establish a new professorship, the Marshall
D. Butler Distinguished Professor of Finance.
Butler served as CEO and chairman of AVX, the Myrtle Beach-based
electronic components manufacturer, from 1973 until his
retirement in 1993. Butler is credited with leading the
company to its dominant position in the worldwide production
and sales of ceramic capacitors. He championed the use
of market research and the expansion of operations to
Europe and Asia.
AVX was founded in 1954 and has been a significant industry for Horry County. Today AVX operates 20 manufacturing facilities located in 11 countries and maintains five research and development centers. Markets served include automotive, consumer, data processing, medical and telecommunications. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, although today it is majority-owned by Japanese electronics giant Kyocera Corporation.
The professorship will serve to recruit and retain top finance faculty in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration and ensure that Coastal's business program is competitive with other universities across the country.
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