A $50,000 grant from The Cannon Foundation, Inc., will help fund construction of the R.N. Ellington Center, the new health and counseling center at Elon. Construction has already begun on the 5,000-square-foot facility, with completion scheduled for fall 2001.
The Cannon Foundation, Inc., was established in 1943 by the late Charles A. Cannon, president and chairman of Cannon Mills Company for more than 50 years. Headquartered in Concord, N.C., the foundation receives and administers funds for religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes.
“This generous gift from the Cannon Foundation will benefit every member of the Elon community,” says Leo M. Lambert, Elon president. “The new Ellington Center will offer our students, faculty and staff the best in health and counseling services in a central campus location. We are grateful to the Cannon Foundation for this gift and its commitment to higher education and the health needs of our students.”
The $850,000 facility is named in honor of Dr. Robert N. Ellington of Burlington, N.C., who has served as Elon’s college physician for 15 years. The center, which will be located on the north side of campus near the Story Center, Loy Center and Moseley Center, will provide Elon students, faculty and staff with a wide range of medical and counseling services. It will offer five medical examination rooms, a sick/observation room, rooms for triage, medications, laboratory equipment and shot administration, five counseling rooms, a group conference room, a waiting room and staff office space.
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