2019-2020 President's Report

Broad Street on the front of campus to 10th Street on the north side of campus. In addition to helping the aesthetics of campus, this hazard mitigation project allows ECCC to serve as a staging center during emergency weather situations when power is out elsewhere. Cafeteria Renovation Thanks to the college’s food service vendor Valley Services Inc. (now Aladdin), the Mabry Cafeteria on campus underwent an extensive renovation in summer 2017. Enhancements included more and healthier dining options for students in a true restaurant-style setting, TV monitors located along the serving lines that provide menu and nutrition information, food stations and expanded seating in the Gold Room to accommodate the more than 100 additional resident students who live in the New Women’s Residence Hall, and double doors between the Gordon and

shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, headlined the event at the Neshoba County Coliseum. All proceeds went to support the ECCC baseball program and facilities. A native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Anderson hit a Major League Baseball-best .335 during the 2019 season and became only the third White Sox player to win the batting title. He played for ECCC in 2012 and 2013, helping lead the Warriors to a MACJC State Championship his sophomore year when he was named the NJCAA Male Athlete of the Year. Anderson was drafted by the White Sox as the 17th overall selection in the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft.

Magnolia rooms to provide one large serving/meeting room.

Warrior

Hall Opens ECCC officially opened its new Warrior Hall football operations center with a ribbon cutting ceremony in March 2020. The $2.6 million, 12,300-square-foot facility is located just outside the north end zone of Warrior Field at Bailey Stadium. Warrior Hall contains locker rooms for players and for coaches, a team meeting room, position conference rooms, coaches’ offices, an equipment room, a players’ lounge, and a laundry room. It also houses a state-of the-art training room with hydrotherapy pool to be used by student-athletes in all nine varsity sports at the college. Most of the rooms and areas in the building were sponsored by donors. Billy W. Stewart Hall The New Women’s Residence Hall, located adjacent to Erma Lee Barber Hall on the college’s South Campus, opened for the fall 2017 semester. The college’s Board of Trustees renamed the facility Billy W. Stewart Hall in May 2020 to honor the retirement of the college’s eighth president. The $6.6 million facility was funded using bond revenue and with financial support from each of the five counties in the college’s district. The modern, three-story facility includes 56 rooms, a study area and a kitchen on each floor for student use, and a coin-operated laundry room.

Lucille Wood Court

The college dedicated Lucille Wood Court at the new Tennis Complex on campus in March 2018. One of the eight courts was named in recognition of Wood thanks to a gift to the college from members of her family. A 1951 graduate of then East Central Junior College, Wood was a two-sport star athlete at ECCC who also was a championship-winning coach at her alma mater. A fundraising effort continues to name the other seven tennis courts.

Anderson Headlines Baseball Fundraiser

The ECCC baseball program raised nearly $25,000 during the Around the Diamond with Tim Anderson event in January 2020, featuring the former Warrior All-American baseball player and current Major League Baseball batting champion. Anderson, the starting

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