In 2004, a $3 million grant from the Inasmuch Foundation was combined with
a $3.5 million contribution from university trustee and benefactor Ann Lacy
and a $750,000 contribution from the Mabee Foundation to make new facilities
possible. Renovation and construction of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center,
the new home of the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management,
was completed in the fall of 2007. The new facility for dance and arts management
instruction was revalued at $28 million and was declared in the dance press
as possibly the finest facility for dance in higher education in the world.
The
Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management opened its new Edith Kinney Gaylord Center in August 2007. The new facility includes
8 dance studios: four are 40’ x 60’ or larger; two are 58’ x 26’; one is
48’ x 48’; and one is 26’ x 50’. The facility also includes showers and
locker rooms for men and women, a student lounge, permanent barres outside
of studios for stretching before classes, classrooms, and faculty and administrative
offices.
"The Gaylord Center is the finest
facility of its kind in the nation. It is only fitting that the students
in Oklahoma City University's world-renowned Ann Lacy School of American
Dance and Arts Management learn in such an environment. Join us as we
celebrate the generosity of the Inasmuch Foundation, Ann Lacy, and the
Mabee Foundation for making this facility possible."
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Tom McDaniel, president
In 2004, a $3 million grant from the Inasmuch Foundation was combined with
a $3.5 million contribution from university trustee and benefactor Ann Lacy
and a $750,000 contribution from the Mabee Foundation to make new facilities
possible. Renovation and construction of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center,
the new home of the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management,
was completed in the fall of 2007. The new facility for dance and arts management
instruction was revalued at $28 million and was declared in the dance press
as possibly the finest facility for dance in higher education in the world. 
