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The Baker Pattillo Student Center
Regents rename student center in honor of SFA president
Shirley Luna - April 24, 2007
The new student center at Stephen F. Austin State University has a new name. The recently renovated
building, dedicated just days earlier in a ceremony attended by more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff
and community members, has been renamed the Baker Pattillo Student Center in honor of Dr. Baker
Pattillo, SFA president.Pattillo told members of the Board of Regents, following the vote taken during the board’s April meeting,
that he was surprised by the incredible honor."I have had the good fortune to work with Dr. Steen, SFA’s third president, and I always thought it was
so appropriate that the library was named in his honor because he was so devoted to the mission of the
university’s library,” Pattillo said. “I felt the same way about the coliseum being named for Dr. Johnson
(SFA’s fourth president). Because of his love for athletics, it was very fitting. So, following in that
tradition, the Student Center is the building that I am most closely associated with, because the students
have always been the heart of my work.”Pattillo expressed his appreciation to the regents,
as well as SFA’s faculty and staff, for their continued
support.
"I’m just one member of a team,” he said.
