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| RICHARDS HALL
GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION MARCH 29
You are cordially invited to the Grand Opening Celebration
for Richards
Hall on from 4-6 p.m. March 29. The event will
be free and open to the public.
 Richards Hall, circa 1910. After more than two years' and $8.5 million worth of renovation, Richards Hall has re-opened to faculty and students. Join the celebration on March 29. Tours of the newly remodeled building will be offered at 4 p.m. A dedication ceremony begins at 5 p.m. in the Richards Hall auditorium, Room 15 of the building's Garden Level. Among invited guests are NU President Dennis Smith; Interim Chancellor Harvey Perlman; Deon Bahr, senior partner of Bahr Vermeer and Haecker, project architects; Beth Smith, president of MEDICI (Most Esteemed Donors, Intellects, Colleagues and Individuals) an independent fund-raising organization dedicated to the enrichment of UNL's Department of Art and Art History; and emeriti professors James Eisentrager and Dan Howard. Interim Dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Lawrence Mallett and Joseph M. Ruffo, chair of the Department of Art and Art History, will serve as co-masters of ceremony. The new Eisentrager/ Howard Gallery also will be dedicated in honor of the two faculty who donated funds for its renovation. The dedication of the Eisentrager/Howard Gallery will include the unveiling of a plaque, which will hang at the entrance of the gallery. Because this event will also serve as the closing reception for the Annual Undergraduate Studio Art Exhibition, student awards will also be bestowed as part of the dedication ceremony. A closing reception in the gallery will follow the ceremony. |
