Reynolds Community College late celebrated the dedication of the Jerry as well as Mary Owen Student Center. Longtime supporters of Reynolds, Jerry as well as Mary Owen were honored at the lawsuit for their many as well as major investments to the college.
Jerry served on the Reynolds College Board from 1984 to 1988. The couplet supports the college’s scholarship fund as well as created an endowment for the Reynolds Middle College, which helps individuals earn a high schoolhouse equivalency certificate as well as transition into a score or workforce credential program. In 2015, the Owens made a major gift to better outcomes for electrical current as well as futurity students.
“I grew upwardly on a dairy farm as well as nosotros didn’t bring a lot of money. (But) nosotros gave. We raised lots of vegetables as well as gave them to the people that needed them. We were ever taught to give. That was a component of our lives,” noted Mary on her early on lessons virtually philanthropy.
Located inside the newly-renovated Georgiadis Hall on Reynolds’ Parham Road Campus, the Jerry as well as Mary Owen Student Center houses the college’s offices of Enrollment Services, Financial Aid, Veteran’s Services, Student Life, the Campus Book Store, as well as other pupil success supporting programs. The infinite reflects the Owens' belief that every pupil should have the guidance as well as tools to assist themselves, their family, as well as community succeed.
Jerry Owen, who attended the groundbreaking of the Parham Road Campus inwards 1973, said, “When thinking virtually my purpose, I come upwardly up amongst 3 lines of vii words: Word hard, savour life as well as portion my blessings. It reinforces what’s skillful virtually life. You can’t purchase that form of goodwill. The joy of living is enhanced past times the joy of giving.”
As component of the dedication ceremony, guests toured the pupil back upwardly offices as well as learned what services are provided to assist students successfully navigate college. “Whether it’s guidance that inwards choosing academic score programs or technical careers or paying for classes – or, exactly helping about students acquire through those bumps along the agency – the Jerry as well as Mary Owen Student Center is the infinite where students volition last heard as well as assisted,” explained Reynolds Vice President of Student Affairs MD Thomas Hollins. “The Owens’ investment volition conk on to produce what they bring ever done – as well as that is exactly to assist students.”
