TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) -- Tallahassee Community College has received a million dollar donation to help train students in manufacturing.
Thursday morning, the college renamed the Advanced Manufacturing Training Center after Kim Williams, a TCC alum and one of the donors.
The TCC Foundation says the center will use the gift to buy equipment, expand programs and fund scholarships.
Williams, the president of Marpan supply and recycling, went to TCC in the 70's. He says he's honored that his name will be a part of the center and hopes the gift will keep building manufacturing talent that stays in Tallahassee.
"A lot of what Tallahassee needs is to create a manufacturing sector," Williams said. "It'll make all the manufacturers that are here healthier. There'll be more trained employees that can change from one job to the other. And I think, if our children and graduates would learn that those opportunities exist up here, they might not leave Tallahassee, which is really what I want to see happen."
This is the third-largest gift in TCC's 50-year history. The foundation says it's raised $7.2 million towards its $10 million "TCC. We Rise" campaign.
