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H.R. No. 128
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Philanthropists Emmett and Miriam McCoy have
announced a gift of $20 million to Texas State University--San
Marcos, to be used to create the Emmett and Miriam McCoy College of
Business Administration; and
WHEREAS, The largest single gift in the history of Texas
State University--San Marcos, the McCoys' donation will fund a new
building for the college, as well as endowed chairs, distinguished
professorships, undergraduate and graduate scholarships, and
faculty, student, and program development; and
WHEREAS, University officials anticipate that the new
college will serve 3,500 undergraduate majors, about 1,500
undergraduate minors, and more than 450 graduate majors; the
college will be composed of the departments of accounting,
management, marketing, computer information systems and
quantitative methods, and finance and economics; and
WHEREAS, McCoy Hall is expected to open in the spring of 2006
and will include a 150-seat teaching theater, named in memory of the
McCoys' late son Dennis and in honor of his wife, Cindy; and
WHEREAS, Emmett McCoy, formerly the president and chief
executive officer of McCoy's Building Supply Centers, announced the
magnificent gift on behalf of his wife and himself on February 27,
2004, his 81st birthday; and
WHEREAS, Esteemed members of the San Marcos community for
more than 30 years, the McCoys moved to that city with their four
children, Mike, Brian, Dennis, and Brenda, when they relocated the
company headquarters there in 1972; and
WHEREAS, Now one of the largest family-owned businesses in
its industry, McCoy's Building Supply Centers was established by
Frank McCoy, Mr. McCoy's father, in Houston in 1923 as a contract
roofing company; Frank McCoy moved the business to Galveston four
years later and eventually began selling building supplies; and
WHEREAS, Emmett McCoy joined the company after returning home
from service in World War II, and in 1952 he succeeded his father as
head of the business; the company was thriving and beginning to
expand into other towns when Hurricane Carla hit the Texas Gulf
Coast in 1961 and sent the demand for building supplies soaring; Mr.
McCoy's firm soon had annual sales of more than $1 million--partly
because it had not raised its prices in the wake of the storm--and
in 1964 the booming company became McCoy's Building Supply Centers;
and
WHEREAS, Emmett McCoy retired in 1997, and the company is now
directed by his son Brian; today the business employs more than
2,000 people and operates 86 stores in five states--Arkansas,
Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas; and
WHEREAS, In consequence of Mr. and Mrs. McCoy's extraordinary
generosity, the Emmett and Miriam McCoy College of Business
Administration is poised to become one of the best such colleges in
the state, and Texas State University has gained immeasurable
distinction; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas
Legislature, 4th Called Session, hereby warmly congratulate Emmett
McCoy on the occasion of his 81st birthday and extend to Emmett and
Miriam McCoy deepest appreciation for a gift to Texas State
University--San Marcos that will benefit Texans and the Lone Star
State for generations to come; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for Mr. and Mrs. McCoy as an expression of high regard by
the Texas House of Representatives.
Rose
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 128 was adopted by the House on May
11, 2004, by a non-record vote.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House