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TWU
receives $3 million for new Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas
Center
9/22/08
DALLAS —
Longtime Dallas resident Florence A. Doswell has donated $3
million to Texas Woman’s University for its new T. Boone
Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center. TWU’s
college of nursing in Dallas will be named The Houston J.
and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing in honor of this
gift, which is one of the largest single gifts from an individual
to TWU.
“This gift
is a perfect match between a donor’s interest and TWU’s
mission,” TWU Chancellor Dr. Ann Stuart said. “We
are very grateful for Mrs. Doswell’s generous gift,
which lays the foundation for a building that will allow TWU
to continue graduating quality nurses and other healthcare
professionals for years to come.”
The late Houston
J. Doswell was a successful oil executive in Dallas for many
years. The Doswells have a long history of supporting local
organizations that seek to improve area health care or address
community needs.
“I was so
impressed with what I saw when I visited TWU’s Parkland
campus, and we all know how desperately we need more nurses,”
Mrs. Doswell said. “It just seemed to me that this gift
would benefit so many people.”
The new Institute
of Health Sciences-Dallas Center combines TWU’s Parkland
and Presbyterian sites into a dynamic campus-in-one building
at the Parkland location. Groundbreaking for the 190,000-square-foot
facility is scheduled for 2009, with a planned opening in
2011.
The new institute
will allow TWU — already the state’s leading provider
of new nurses and other healthcare professionals — to
incorporate industry-standard technology into classrooms and
laboratories that will enhance career preparation for students.
Bringing together TWU’s College of Nursing, the nationally
recognized TWU Stroke Center and the university’s nationally
ranked programs in occupational and physical therapy will
facilitate the new model of educating together the disciplines
needed for a team approach to patient care.
Chancellor Stuart
is leading the $55.5 million campaign for the project, of
which more than $47.7 million has been raised to date. The
institute bears the name of Texas oilman and entrepreneur
T. Boone Pickens, whose $5 million gift to the building campaign
represents the largest single contribution in TWU history
from an individual.
Major donors to
the Dallas building campaign include: the T. Boone Pickens
Foundation; Mrs. Florence A. Doswell; the Meadows Foundation;
the Jane and John Justin Foundation; the Simmons Family Foundation;
the Hoblitzelle Foundation; the Sid W. Richardson Foundation;
the Hillcrest Foundation; the Texas Woman’s University
Foundation; the George and Fay Young Foundation; the Amon
G. Carter Foundation; the RGK Foundation; the Tom A. Harris
Fund, the Roberta Coke Camp Fund and the Basil Georges Fund
of Communities Foundation of Texas; the Pollock Foundation;
Mr. and Mrs. Jere W. Thompson; Mrs. Orien Woolf; the Robert
Tucker Hays Foundation; Bobby Lyle; Ann Stuart, Chancellor
and President of TWU; the Abe Zale Foundation; and the James
M. Collins Foundation.
For more information
on TWU’s new T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas
Center, visit www.twu.edu/dallascampus.
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