Elmira College Board Names New Dormitory Meier Hall

The Elmira College Board of Trustees announced today at the cornerstone-laying ceremony that the College’s new dorm will be named for Dr. Thomas Keith Meier, the Twelfth President of Elmira College. Meier Hall is slated to open the autumn of 2010.

Dr. Meier, the second-longest serving President of Elmira College, has been a College President for twenty-nine years and is in his twenty-second year as President of Elmira College.

“It is particularly fitting that a student-centered building is named for Tom Meier. His first priority is to provide the best collegiate experience to every Elmira College student,” said Robert Morris, Chairman of the Elmira College Board of Trustees. “I am very happy that we could honor Tom in this way. He and his wife Mila have dedicated themselves to serving the students of Elmira College.”

He earned the Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.  When he was in college at the University of Texas, he was an intercollegiate athlete and honor student, having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

In addition to six dozen scholarly articles and book reviews, Dr. Meier has published a book on Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe.

He, along with his wife, Dr. Mila Meier, is very active and visible on the Elmira College campus and in the greater community. They can be seen at virtually all of the performing arts events, athletic contests, and other student activities on campus.  He encourages administrators to volunteer as advisors to student clubs, and he leads by example as Co-Advisor of the College Ski Club. Previously, the Elmira College Alumni Association awarded him the Medal of Merit and the Board of Trustees honored him with the title of Simeon Benjamin Professor of English Literature.