LIPSCOMBLEADS
AN EXCITING NEW CHAPTER IN LIPSCOMB’S STORY George Shinn Center taps into the power of storytelling to enrich the community and future students
“We dedicate the George Shinn Center to the work of Lipscomb University, to the lives of those who will be enriched by it and to the God who invites all of us into his story of creation, redemption and love.” With those words, Lipscomb University President L. Randolph Lowry formally dedicated the $11 million, 33,000-squarefoot George Shinn Center, the latest milestone completed in the $250 million Lipscombleads initiative, on Oct. 24, 2019. In an event focused on the power of stories to enrich faith, life, success and education, Lipscomb University celebrated its newest
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on-campus facility, the George Shinn Center, devoted to training students in the best ways to tell stories effectively, involving the community in the shared stories of our society and the beginnings of a new chapter in the story of prospective students who visit campus looking for the college that is right for them. “George Shinn has a story. And he wants to spend his life and his wealth helping people live into God’s story,” said Lowry of the man whose $15 million donation made the new center possible.
Shinn, the former owner of the Charlotte/ New Orleans Hornets, was first introduced to Lipscomb at a 2011 event to benefit the Lipscomb Athletics department. At that time, “it was clear he wanted to do good in his adopted city,” said Lowry. Shinn founded the George Shinn Foundation and regularly uses his Franklin, Tennessee, property, outfitted with a barn full of classic cars, as a venue to raise money. His various humanitarian efforts have included funding a medical clinic in Haiti, rebuilding homes in post-Katrina New Orleans, assisting needy families during the Christmas season and establishing a
