Virginia Tech Alumni Association News - Fall 2001
Alumni & Conference Center
Where will it be built?
Along Prices Fork Road and West Campus Drive, near the Duck Pond, on part of the current campus golf course. The course will be reconfigured to nine holes with a driving range. Plans are underway to develop a new 18-hole course nearby.
What will it cost?
This is the best news... $16.2 million in gifts must be raised to leverage another $27.3 million in additional support, including revenue bonds for a hotel and conference center operation and net proceeds from the conversion of the current Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center (DBHCC) to graduate student housing and seminar rooms. A win-win for the university and for our alumni.
How will donors be recognized?
Naming opportunities for rooms and spaces inside the alumni center, hotel and conference center for $25,000 and higher gifts/pledges. Also various size paving stones will cover an outdoor plaza area with donor names inscribed on each for $1,000 to $24,999 gifts/pledges.
Why is it needed?
- To house alumni when they visit, and the expanded programs to serve them.
- To accommodate professional and continuing education conferences and conventions.
- To attract alumni and friends to visit the campus more often.
What facilities will it include?
- Alumni reception "grand hall."
- Large ballroom with capacity of up to 1,500.
- High-tech assembly hall and conference rooms.
- Virginia Tech history museum, library and gallery.
- 150 room hotel, with restaurant and dining rooms.
- Convenient parking and adjacent overflow parking.
- Alumni Association staff and conference administration offices.
What is the timetable?
If sufficient gifts are committed to the project, construction will begin in late 2002, with an anticipated completion in late 2004.
How alumni can help...
Call, write, or pledge online. No gift is "too small."
Virginia Tech Alumni Center Campaign
201 Pack Building
Blacksburg, VA 24061
1-800-533-1144
The Virginia Tech experience was special for all of us.
It's time that alumni had a "home of their own."
"In addition to being great professors, great instructors, they became very good friends."
- Eddie Hearp '65
"I'll sometimes just stop and park, and just walk across the drillfield, just to see what it's like to be a student again." - Todd Maroldo '97
"Attending Virginia Tech brought a discipline to my life which I had never experienced before." - Jim Turner '56
"I can't think of another place I'd want to send any of my friends, or any of my children, than Virginia Tech." - Nancy Lucy '93
"I made a lot of good friends, friends that have remained friends for life."
- Gene James '53
"My friends and I always talk about how beautiful the campus is." - Quinton Nottingham '89
"I remember staying up five straight nights working on that project model... maybe that's where I learned time management." - G. T. Ward '49
