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For immediate useNov. 6, 1997 -- No. 825
Special to the Rocky Mount Telegram
Rocky Mount family's donation helps build addition to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
CHAPEL HILL -- The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will dedicate its new expanded building Friday (Nov. 7) -- a building made possible in part by Rocky Mount donors B. Mayo Boddie, Nick B. Boddie and Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Inc.
The Boddies contributed $1 million to build a three-story atrium in Lineberger's new facility in memory of their mother Lucy Mayo Boddie. The gift also is a tribute to the people of Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Inc.
The atrium is the hub around which all activities of the center will revolve, connecting the new laboratory wing and administration and cancer control wing with an existing laboratory wing.
“We designed the atrium to create an area through which all the scientists must pass to facilitate and increase interaction among all the scientific disciplines,” said Dr. H. Shelton Earp III, director of the Lineberger Center. “From the atrium you can see the hospital, linking in a physical and visual way the conduct of research to the care of patients. The Boddie-Noell gift makes this concept a reality.”
The center's addition joins the existing 39,000 square feet of usable space in the Lineberger building, completed in 1984. The space will support the laboratories of 15 to 18 faculty members, scientists and physicians, and house the headquarters for the UNC Lineberger Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in breast cancer and the center's programs in cancer prevention/control and epidemiology. It also will house biostatistics and cancer center administration.
The expanded building's combined 80,000 usable square footage makes the Lineberger Center one of the largest free-standing cancer research facilities on a university campus in the country. The new facility will house more cancer research laboratories under one roof than ever before.
The center, established in 1975, is one of 31 comprehensive cancer centers in the country designated by the National Cancer Institute. It includes 190 faculty scientists from 25 departments across the UNC-CH campus. Research programs at the center are organized into laboratory, clinical and public health sciences.
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Special to the High Point Enterprise and Greensboro News and Record
Millis family's donation helps build addition to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
CHAPEL HILL -- The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will dedicate its new expanded building Friday (Nov. 7) -- a building made possible in part by local donors Jim and Jesse Millis of High Point.
The Millises donated a major gift to build the Lineberger Center's new Millis Pavilion, a four-story office complex to serve as headquarters for the UNC Lineberger's Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in breast cancer and house administration, biostatistics and programs in cancer control, prevention and cancer epidemiology.
“Before this office complex was built, our public health programs were in offices and trailers across campus, making interactions and ongoing work difficult. Bringing everything together in one space will help tremendously, increasing efficiency and progress,” said Dr. H. Shelton Earp III, director of the Lineberger Center. “The Millis' generosity positions us to progress significantly.”
Jim Millis is chairman and Jesse is vice chairman of the James H. and Jesse E. Millis Foundation Inc. Jim Millis serves as chairman of the Medical Foundation of North Carolina and chairman of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust executive council.
The center's addition joins the existing 39,000 square feet of usable space in the Lineberger building, completed in 1984. The space will support the laboratories of 15 to 18 faculty members, scientists and physicians, and house the headquarters for the UNC Lineberger Specialized Program of
Research Excellence (SPORE) in breast cancer and the center's programs in cancer prevention/control and epidemiology. It also will house biostatistics and cancer center administration.
The expanded building's combined 80,000 usable square footage makes the Lineberger Center one of the largest free-standing cancer research facilities on a university campus in the country. The new facility will house more cancer research laboratories under one roof than ever before.
The center, established in 1975, is one of 31 comprehensive cancer centers in the country designated by the National Cancer Institute. It includes 190 faculty scientists from 25 departments across the UNC-CH campus. Research programs at the center are organized into laboratory, clinical and public health sciences.
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Special to the Charlotte Observer and Belmont Banner
Lineberger family's donation helps build addition to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
CHAPEL HILL - The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will dedicate its new expanded building Friday (Nov. 7) -- a building made possible in part by the Lineberger family of Belmont.
The Lineberger family, for which the center is named, donated $1 million in 1977 to help build the original Lineberger building. In 1990, the Lineberger Foundation gave the lead gift of $1 million to provide for the much-needed building expansion. In all, the Lineberger Foundation has given $4 million to the center.
“The Lineberger family has supported the center from the very beginning,” said Dr. H. Shelton Earp III, director of the Lineberger Center. “Their sustained generosity has helped UNC develop into the nationally recognized cancer center it is today. Their commitment has been the foundation for much of the progress the cancer center has made in the past 20 years and allows us to be well-positioned to enter the next century.”
The center's addition joins the existing 39,000 square feet of usable space in the Lineberger building, completed in 1984. The space will support the laboratories of 15 to 18 faculty members, scientists and physicians, and house the headquarters for the UNC Lineberger Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in breast cancer and the center's programs in cancer prevention/control and epidemiology. It also will house biostatistics and cancer center administration.
The expanded building's combined 80,000 usable square footage makes the Lineberger Center one of the largest free-standing cancer research facilities on a university campus in the country. The new facility will house more cancer research laboratories under one roof than ever before.
The center, established in 1975, is one of 31 comprehensive cancer centers in the country designated by the National Cancer Institute. It includes 190 faculty scientists from 25 departments across the UNC-CH campus. Research programs at the center are organized into laboratory, clinical and public health sciences.
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Lineberger contact: Dianne Shaw, director of communications, 919-966-5905
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