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Oakland
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Seating
inside the gymnasium.
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Oakland
University’s Recreation Center is as much a home for the occasional
user as for the club sports enthusiast. This contemporary, state-of-the-art
facility offers: weight room with 100 pieces of equipment, 177-yard
indoor track, social lounge, three racquetball courts and more.
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Named
after benefactors R. Hugh and Nancy Elliott, the hall was dedicated
on Sept. 22, 2000, and houses the School of Business Administration
and Information Technology Institute.
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Dennis
Pawley, an Oakland University alumnus and trustee, and his wife,
Carlotta, made a $4 million leadership gift to the university in
2004 to name the School of Education and Human Services building
Carlotta and Dennis Pawley Hall. The state-of-the-art 130,000-square-foot
building houses Oakland's School of Education and Human Services
and contains 31 classrooms, eight conference rooms, 163 offices
for faculty and staff and the Lowry Center for Early Childhood Education.
Pawley Hall was dedicated on Founders' Day in 2004. Pawley also
established the Pawley Lean Learning Institute with a $1 million
gift in 2002.
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Varner
Hall is named after D.B. "Woody" Varner served as OU's
first chancellor from 1958-1970. Paula is his wife.
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Another
look at Elliott Hall.
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Oakland
University
Oakland
University is a public university located between Rochester
Hills, Michigan and Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the only
major research university in Oakland County, from which OU
derives its name. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching has classified OU as a Doctoral Research-Intensive
University. Oakland University was created in 1957 when Matilda
Dodge Wilson, widow of automobile magnate John Francis Dodge,
and her second husband, Alfred Wilson, donated their 1,500-acre
estate to Michigan State University, including Meadow Brook
Hall, Sunset Terrace and all the estate's other buildings
and collections, along with $2 million. Originally known as
Michigan State University-Oakland, the university enrolled
its first students in 1959 and was renamed Oakland University
in 1963. The university has been officially independent since
1970.
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