to the college campus are Logan Hall, the Dempsey Student Center, Little Hall, and Steed Hall. Owens Auditorium was named to honor the many contributions made to Sandhills Community College by Dr. Francis Leroy Owens, Sr., who served on the Sandhills Community College Board of Trustees for 22 years. Named for Dr. John Dempsey, the current and only the second president of Sandhills, the Dempsey Student Center houses the college bookstore, areas for study, a gymnasium, a fitness center, locker rooms, a game room, a full-service cafeteria, dining areas, and the Ewing Leadership Center. Outside of the Dempsey Student Center is a basketball court, tennis courts, sports fields, a picnic shelter, walking trails, sand volleyball courts, and a ropes course. Computer technologies, hospitality and culinary arts, and engineering technologies are taught in the building named in honor of the college's long-time board of trustees chair, George W. Little. In Little Hall, the Charles and Jane Wellard Technology Center houses state-of-the-art computer equipment, and culinary and baking classes are conducted in the Peggy Kirk Bell Center for Hospitality and the Culinary Arts. Steed Hall houses the landscape gardening program, and humanities, math, and English classes are held in Logan Hall. The Kelly Tutoring Center is located there. The college is also home to the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens. Designed and maintained by students in the landscape gardening program, the site contains 14 themed gardens, including a whimsical children's garden and a new Japanese garden. The largest accessible holly collection on the East Coast is found in the Ebersole Holly Garden. A formal English garden exhibits several smaller gardens, including the Holly Maze, the Fountain Courtyard, the Sunken Garden, the Ceremonial Courtyard, and the Herb Garden. In addition to the main campus, the Hoke Center located in Raeford provides curriculum, continuing-education, and basic job skills courses. It is also home to SandHoke Early College High School. Hoke County is the second county Sandhills Community College serves. The college began teaching in Hoke County in 1968 in the Old County Office Building in downtown Raeford. In 2001, Wyatt and Mary Upchurch donated 10 acres of land for the Sandhills Hoke Center. The first building constructed was named in their honor. Since then, Johnson Hall and SandHoke Hall have been constructed. The college dedicated the Larry R. Caddell Public Safety Training Center in 2011. It is located in Carthage and is used to train emergency-services