Northeast Texas Community College recently announced that its library has been renamed the Charlie and Helen Hampton Learning Resource Center (LRC). The NTCC Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the new building name in their April board meeting. This is the first name change in a recently-launched fundraising/naming campaign by the NTCC Foundation. The naming campaign comes as the campus interior undergoes a major transformation.
Helen Hampton and her late husband, Charlie, of Naples, are longtime friends of NTCC. Both Charlie and Helen dedicated their careers to educating students, so naming the library building was a natural choice. The Hamptons received the Foundation?s Distinguished Benefactor Award in 2015 and are among the college?s most prolific donors.
?Both of the Hamptons had long careers as educators and we are so pleased to have our Learning Resource Center bear their name as a testament to their legacy,? Dr. Jonathan McCullough, NTCC Vice President for Advancement said.
The Charlie and Helen Hampton Learning Resource Center begins its transformation this summer. In addition to all of the current library services available, the updated center will also house NTCC?s collection of Caddo Indian artifacts (donated by the late Margaret Hinton) and a collection of art by the late John Biggers. One of the notable featured items is a rare Biggers mural that is on loan to NTCC from the Pewitt CISD.
?The LRC is already widely utilized, but we really envision it becoming a social and intellectual hub on campus. There will be places for students to hang out, drink coffee and socialize in addition to a state-of-the art computer lab and traditional quiet areas,? McCullough said.
Hampton recently gave a significant gift to the NTCC Foundation as a part of the naming campaign. These funds will be used to create an endowment providing scholarships for students participating in the Work Scholarship Program. This one-of-a-kind program gives students the opportunity to earn their degree by working in various campus and using the funds to pay off their college in advance ? without acquiring debt. NTCC is the only public community college in the state of Texas offering a privately funded program of this type.
Giving levels for the NTCC naming campaign range from $10,000 to $500,000+. To learn more about the NTCC Foundation naming campaign, please contact McCullough at 903-434-8115 or visit www.ntcc.edu/namingcampaign.
