FAMU President Elmira Mangum, SBI Dean Shawnta Friday-Stroud,
and Director of Student Activities Marvin Green were present to celebrate the
room’s re-opening.
The renovated Bull & Bear Study Lounge is now dedicated to the late Charles Evans, who served on the faculty of SBI for 30 years. His widow, Connie Hicks-Evans, thanked the university on behalf of the family.
“I am just elated,” Evans said. “My husband was a very
humble man and he loved students and did all he could for them.”
The renovation was made in response to a proposal by FAMU Study
Body President Tonnette Graham, who successfully lobbied the administration to
assign over $100,000 in Capital Improvement Trust Funds to make the project
possible.