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Scripps Howard Center Groundbreaking

In an historic moment for our program, we broke ground on Sept. 22, 2000, for our new home, the Scripps Howard Center.


The Center is a state-of-the-art journalism and communications building, funded with a $5 million donation from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The building will house four computer labs, six seminar rooms, a TV studio and a multi-media lecture hall. It also will include WHOV-FM, the campus radio station.

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Dr. William R. Harvey, president of the university, told students and faculty that they are part of an effort to revolutionize journalism and journalism education. "We want to move people of color into newsrooms and boardrooms," Harvey said.

Bricks and Mortar of a Vision

Turning the symbolic first shovel for construction are Dr. Robert Binswanger, chairman of the university's Board of Trustees; Bill Milligan, the architect for the new building and a Hampton alumnus; Norma B. Harvey, wife of university President William R. Harvey; Dr. Harvey; Judith G. Clabes, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation; Kenneth W. Lowe, president and CEO of the E. W. Scripps Co.; Lydia McCoy, a print journalism major from Little Rock, Ark.; and Professor Charlotte Grimes, chair of the program and Scripps Howard Professor of Journalism.