to 735, its current capacity. This is Miami's second largest auditorium, only smaller than Millett Hall. The designers added new lighting and state of the art sound systems. They decided to renovate because, according to Holly Wissing, Miami's spokesperson in 1993, the hall had become old and the acoustics needed to be improved. There was a grand opening performance by the Echternach Festival Orchestra. Guy Potter Benton What was previously known as Benton Hall was dedicated for Guy Potter Benton, who was president of Miami from 1902 until 1911. Benton was born in Kenton, Ohio on May 26, 2865. He received an A.B. degree from Baker University in 1886 and Ohio Wesleyan University that same year. He also received an A.M. degree from Baker in 1896 and Ohio Wesleyan in 1905; D.D. degree from Baker in 1900 and Ohio Wesleyan in 1905; LL.D. degree from Upper Iowa University in 1906 and Miami in 1916. He also went to the University of Wooster for graduate school. Benton was a licensed minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886. Benton had also been the president of the Southeastern Kansas Teachers Association in 1891, Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Kansas 1895–96, and the President of Upper Iowa University from 1899 until 1902. At Miami, Benton promoted the founding of the first sorority, Delta Zeta and created the idea of having a fraternity house row on High Street. He served his own fraternity, Phi Delta Theta as national president. He took a leave of absence, and spent the 1909–10 school year in Europe. By the time Benton resigned in 1911 to become the president of the University of Vermont from 1911 to 1919, the student enrollment had increased from 124 (in 1902) to over 1,200. The income had become almost a quarter of a million dollars, and seven new buildings had been constructed. After his presidency at Vermont, Benton went back to Europe with his family and became the head of war-time YMCA and was the educational director of the American Army Occupation. He went to Manila and became the president of the University of the Philippines after World War I from 1921 to 1924. He contracted a rare disease while he was abroad and died on June 28, 1928. His funeral was in Benton Hall and he was buried in the Oxford Cemetery. John W. Hall Hall Auditorium is currently named