Gift Creates McKenzie Ballroom at Merket Alumni Center
February 10, 2009
By: Kristina Butler
The $4 million capital campaign to double the meeting space in the Texas Tech Alumni
Association (TTAA) Merket Alumni Center received a major boost Feb. 10 when a $500,000
donation by Michael “Mickey” and Barbara Esslinger McKenzie of Sulphur Springs was
announced by Mark Griffin, member of the Texas Tech University Board of Regents.