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Fred and Mary Eddy Jones Foundation $1 Million Gift to OU
Jan. 10, 2002
NORMAN, Okla. - The Fred and Mary Eddy Jones Foundation of Oklahoma City has made a $1 million gift to the University of Oklahoma, with half of the gift designated for a new wing for the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the other half in support of Great Expectations: The Campaign for Sooner Sports.
The foundation's $500,000 gift to OU Athletics is part of the $100 million athletic fund-raising campaign that is benefiting every OU sport. The centerpiece of the Campaign for Sooner Sports is a major renovation and expansion of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
The gift to Athletics will be recognized through the naming of the "Red Room," located on the ground floor of the Barry Switzer Center, and of the new Training and Treatment Facility in OU's renovated Lloyd Noble Center.
The Red Room is where OU football players meet to watch motivational videos before each game and to post their goals for each week. It also serves as the location of Head Football Coach Bob Stoops' post-game press conferences for local and national media. The 1,595-square-foot Training and Treatment Facility in Lloyd Noble Center serves members of the OU men's and women's basketball teams as well as athletes from gymnastics and other teams. It includes an athletic training room, exam room, hydrotherapy room, and trainer offices.
The Fred and Mary Eddy Jones Foundation's $500,000 museum gift supports the private fund-raising effort to build an addition to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The new west wing will house the Weitzenhoffer Collection, the most important gift of French Impressionist art ever given to a public university.
In addition to displaying the collection, which was a bequest from Clara Weitzenhoffer, the 26,000-square-foot museum addition will create additional gallery and classroom space and provide a new main museum entrance facing Elm Avenue.
The addition and corresponding renovation of the existing museum will cost $14 million, of which $7 million will be raised through private gifts. Another $1 million in endowment funding also is being sought.
In honor of the Jones Foundation's gift, the new wing's 150-seat auditorium will be named for the late Mary Eddy Jones.
"It is most appropriate that one of our premier new spaces honor Mrs. Mary Eddy Jones, whose dedication to this museum truly came from the heart," said OU President David L. Boren. "We are deeply grateful to the Jones family for their leadership and support of this new museum campaign."
Mrs. Jones, who died in April 2000, was a benefactress of the museum that bears the name of her son. A gift from Mrs. Jones and her husband, the late Fred Jones, built the museum's current facility in 1971 to honor the memory of their son, Fred Jones Jr., who died in an airplane crash during his senior year at OU.
Fred Jones Hall of Oklahoma City and Hilary Clark of Tulsa, both longtime members of the museum's Board of Visitors and major donors to OU, are leading the fund-raising campaign. Hall, managing partner of Fred Jones Cos. Inc., is the nephew of the late Fred Jones Jr. Other members of the advisory board, which is led by Marylin Jones Parsons of Oklahoma City, serve as campaign committee members.
