Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--In ceremonies preceding Mississippi State's Saturday [Oct. 28] campus football game, the university formally opens its newest student housing facility in the Northeast Campus complex.
Public dedication ceremonies for the 82,000-square-foot Louis A. Hurst Jr. Residence Hall will begin at 9 a.m. in the building lobby. A reception follows at the location.
The events precede the 1:30 p.m. Southeastern Conference contest between the Bulldogs and University of Kentucky Wildcats at Davis Wade Stadium.
Situated just south of recently dedicated S. Bryce Griffis Hall, the 250-bed co-residential facility is named for the Poplarville native and 1949 Mississippi State accounting graduate who went on to become a senior Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. administrator.
Now a Houston, Texas, resident, Hurst concluded a more than three-decade-long career in the 1980s as the Memphis Region's assistant director.
Like Griffis and the nearby Roy H. Ruby Residence Hall, Hurst Hall includes amenities most in-demand by today's students. Among others, these features include double-occupancy rooms with private bathrooms, individual room heating and air conditioning units, and cable television. Each unit also is fully furnished.
Louis Hurst has been a longtime contributor to MSU's College of Business and Industry. Most recently, however, he made a significant gift to the Mississippi State Promise program established earlier this year by President Robert H. "Doc" Foglesong.
The Promise Awards provide tuition support for Mississippi freshmen and community college transfers who meet academic qualifications and whose family incomes fall below $30,000 annually.
For more information on the ceremony, telephone Lady Cox at 662-325-1554.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.