The construction site, from stadium view, and at right, the finished product. Below, left to right: The gallery; Morris Cregger ’64, Board of Trustees chair and the man for whom the Cregger Center is named; the Kerr-Cregger Field House; Nancy Mulheren ’72, who has been hands-on in the development of landscaping and hardscaping; Dr. John Creasy, associate professor and chair of the Health and Human Performance Department.
a gathering point for students.” Mulheren, a Board member, announced a $25 million pledge Cregger wasn’t the only alumnus or alumna to recognize the from the Mulheren family to the College — the largest gift in need. During Alumni Weekend this past April, he and fellow the College’s history. Of that pledge, $4 million is for the Maroons Hall of Famer Donald Kerr Cregger Center, to be used for land’60, announced a joint $5 million scaping, hardscaping — such as gift toward construction of the lampposts — and interior design. Cregger Center’s Field House. “I’ve really been hands-on in the “We hadn’t had any new facilities development of all the landscaping in quite a while and we thought [the and hardscaping,” says Mulheren, Cregger Center] was something we who co-chairs the Board of Trustees’ Building and Grounds Committee. really needed to do to stay competi— MORRIS CR EGGER ’ 64 “That has been my push: Improving tive with other schools,” says Kerr, the look of the campus.” also a Board of Trustees member. “In order to make it happen, Mulheren emphasizes that her Cregger Center involvewe needed others to step up like Morris did.” Nancy Mulheren ’72 already had done just that. When ment has not been with the physical layout, where the Roanoke launched its Roanoke Rising campaign in 2013, classrooms and locker rooms will be located, for example.
“I OWE THIS TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE SCHOOL. I WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES THAT I HAD.”
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