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<\/p>\nOccupying 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 finest business schools in the country.<\/p>\n
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Born in High Point, North Carolina, Earl N. \u201cPhil\u201d Phillips, Jr. is a graduate of Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard Business School. 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 also was a partner in Showplace, Hamilton Properties, and Phillips Interests, all real estate development and management companies specializing in home furnishing showrooms and offices. Mr. Phillips served two terms as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served as a member of the University of North Carolina Endowment Board for sixteen years. He was appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly to a four-year term on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors overseeing the sixteen campuses of the University of North Carolina system and also served four years as a Trustee of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n
In 1999-2000, he served as Chairman of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry, the State Chamber of Commerce known as \u201cthe voice of business in North Carolina,\u201d and was Co-Chair of North Carolinians for Educational Opportunity 2000. Earl N. Phillips, Jr. was sworn in on February 28, 2002 as the 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.Other business and service related positions include: North Carolina Economic Development Board, 1984-1992; National Advisory Council, US Small Business Administration, Washington, DC, 1990-1992; Piedmont Triad (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) Airport Authority, 1992-1997; Director of First Union National Bank of North Carolina (now Wachovia) Board, 1988-1998. He received the Global Leadership Award from Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from UNC-Chapel Hill, 2002. He has two children and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n
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Earl N. Phillips, Sr. \u2013 The Phillips Family Tradition at High Point University The Phillips Family has had a long tradition of supporting the School of Business at High Point University.\u00a0 Before Ambassador \u201cPhil\u201d Phillips made the Phillips Hall possible, his father, Earl Phillips, Sr. (seated in the painting above) was the namesake and a major contributor to the Earl N. Phillips School of Business.\u00a0 Earl Phillips (b1897 d1975), was an entrepreneur who saw the potential of the home furnishings industry and, over a 50-year career, founded companies offering upholstery fabric, polyurethane foam, springs, financing, and showroom facilities. After college at Washington and Lee University and William and Mary College, Phillips joined DuPont as a sales representative for the state of Virginia. In 1932, he moved to High Point, and with his uncle W. Stanley Davis, founded Phillips Davis, Inc. This fabric converting and sales company grew to become Phillips Mills which included a fabric weaving mill in Monroe, North Carolina, and a velvet mill in Jamestown, North Carolina.<\/p>\n Phillips co-founded Phillips Foscue Corporation in 1957, Factors, Inc., a financial services provider, was started in 1958, and First Factors in 1972. Seeing the need for showroom and hotel space for the growing Southern Furniture Market, he, with others, was instrumental in the development of the Furniture Plaza Showroom Building and the adjacent Holiday Inn. Phillips also enjoyed business endeavors \u201crelated to the industry\u201d and was founding chairman of the world-renowned Hatteras Yacht Company and the String & Splinter Club, a High Point community institution. He served as Mayor of High Point from 1945 to 1949 and endowed the Phillips School of Business at High Point University in 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 finest business schools…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_hpuaeo_plugin_post_data":"","_hpuaeo_plugin_meta_tags":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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