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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear McMurry University Alumni and Friends:
McMurry's Class of 2009 is on our doorsteps and preparations for the
excitement they'll bring to the campus are underway. The campus has hosted
three freshman orientation sessions for this class and has fully engaged in
making its members' welcome to McMurry a genuinely warm one. Faculty, staff
and students have each played significant roles in the greeting and orienting of
these new students and their families. These sessions have served as still
another clear demonstration of the sense of community that has long defined
McMurry.
The current Chieftain highlights a number of exciting initiatives underway on
the McMurry campus. The recent dedication of our Seidel-Swagerty Tennis
Center doubles the capacity for our tennis student-athletes to compete ... and
provides a significant wellness addition to the entire campus community.
The August 30 groundbreaking for the Bedford and Oneta Furr Welcome Center
signals the start of construction on an addition that will greatly enhance the
utility of Radford Memorial Auditorium. Equally important, the Welcome Center
will provide a most visible and central location in which to welcome McMurry
alumni and friends, and a variety of on-campus and off-campus groups. Next
year's Chieftain will highlight the opening of the Welcome Center—we hope
you'll want to be a part of that celebration as we begin the Fall 2006 semester.
Completion of the extensive renovations to Hunt and Martin Residence Halls
races the calendar with the arrival of the Class of 2009. After nearly 50 years of
housing McMurry students, both residence halls were essentially gutted and
brought up to 21st century standards that better accommodate the way today's
students live and study. As was the case in the past, Martin Hall will serve our
women residents, along with President's Hall. The men will again rule Hunt and
Gold Star Residence Halls.
There is a sense of excitement at McMurry—facility enhancements and
improvements to the campus quality of life tend to evoke that emotion. And
yet, in this Chieftain we rightly celebrate those elements of McMurry University
that remain at the core of what we are as a community.
To visit with Dr. Vernon Henderson '29 and his lovely wife Viola '29 is to see
McMurry University mirrored in their stories. We've captured Vernon and Viola
in this issue, believing they provide an inspirational look at what the McMurry
Experience meant to this young couple ... and to the many people with whom
the Hendersons came in contact. They are a delightful couple—their story
should certainly warm you.
McMurry's Servant Leadership Program is alive and well. As we celebrate its
15th anniversary, you'll be pleased to learn the program has only grown stronger
since its 1990 inception. If the McMurry Experience cultivates leadership,
excellence and virtue, the Servant Leadership Program serves as a crucible for
developing and testing those attributes in a most intense fashion.
As we send this Chieftain to the printer, the National Collegiate Athletic Association
has weighed in on the use of Native American mascots, names and logos by its
member schools. While the NCAA continues to promote the notion that the
selection of names, mascots and logos is an institutional prerogative, it is
establishing an environment that makes exercise of that prerogative increasingly
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