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The Second Century Campaign Timeline
Issue date: 9/12/08 Section: News
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January 2006: Gifts from members of the Board of Trustees create first endowed scholarships and first endowed faculty position of the campaign.
March 2006: Meadows Foundation donates $33 million to the Meadows School of the Arts.
May 2006: A $1 million gift from Jeanne Roach Johnson ('54) supports the renovation of the music practice rooms in Meadows and creates Jeanne Johnson Piano Guest Artists Endowment Fund.
June 2006: A $2.5 million gift David B. and Carolyn Miller establishes David B. Miller Endowed Professorship in the Cox School of Business and provides support for SMU Athletics.
August 2006: Ray L. and Nancy Ann Hunt donate $35 million. Margaret McDermott and Nancy Harmon give $1 million to renovate the Meadows Museum plaza.
September 2006: SMU dedicates the J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building, which is LEED certified.
November 2006: The Embrey Family Foundation gives $1 million for the development of the Embrey Human Rights Education Pilot Program.
December 2006: Ground breaking ceremony for the new Crum Basketball Center after charitable donations from Gary Crum ('69) and wife Sylvie.
January 2007: Trust established by the estate of former U.S. Congressman and Judge Brady P. Gentry providing a gift of $2 million to support scholarships for students from East Texas counties.
September 2007: Ground breaking ceremony on the Perkins Protho Hall, made possible by a $6 million donation from the Perkins-Protho Foundation and trustee Elizabeth Perkins-Protho ('39).
October 2007: A $10.1 million gift from W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation of Communities Foundation of Texas establishes the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education and provided a lead gift for Caruth Hall.
November 2007: Annette Caldwell Simmons ('57) and Harold Simmons provide a gift of $20 million endowing the Annette Caldwell Simons School of Education and Human Development.
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