High Point University Dedicates Phillips Hall

HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 30, 2007 – Campus and community leaders will be on hand Tuesday, Sept. 4 for the dedication of Phillips Hall on the High Point University campus at 6:30 p.m.
 
A reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the dedication at 6:30 p.m. These events are "by invitation only," but media is welcome to attend. Phillips Hall, underwritten in part by a lead gift from Earl N. "Phil" Phillips, Jr. and his children, is the new home for the Earl N. Phillips School of Business at High Point University.
 
Occupying the site of the old Memorial Auditorium, which was demolished to make way for the new building, Phillips Hall is a 27,000-square-foot structure housing classrooms, computer labs, study rooms, boardrooms and faculty offices. It features tiered lecture rooms, a spacious auditorium and conference rooms, and is modeled after some of the greatest business schools in the country.
 
"We have built a state-of-the-art business school to bring High Point University's most popular major to a new level," says President Nido Qubein. "We are eternally grateful for the generosity of our friend, Phil Phillips, whose name we are proud and honored to have on this important building."
 
Born in High Point, Phillips is a graduate of Woodberry Forest School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard Business School. He is the son of Earl N. Phillips, Sr. for whom the High Point University School of Business was named in 1973.
 
In 1972, he co-founded and was president and chief executive officer of First Factors Corporation, a financial services company, which was acquired by GE Capital in 1998. He was a partner in Showplace, Hamilton Properties and Phillips Interests, all real estate development and management companies specializing in home furnishings showrooms and offices in High Point.
 
In 2002, Phillips was appointed by President George W. Bush as United States Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean serving the seven island nations of Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada.

Phillips has two children, Jordan Phillips of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Courtney Phillips Hyder and her husband Bill of Charlotte, and two granddaughters, Ellie and Maggie Hyder.
 
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people. HPU is a liberal arts institution with approximately 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 53 countries and 44 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report 6th among comprehensive universities in the South and in the top 100 nationally. The university offers 68 undergraduate majors, 33 minors and seven graduate-degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference.

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