Dedicated in 1996, the Meyer-Womble Observatory sits at 14,148 feet near the summit of Mount Evans and is one of the highest operating observatories on earth. A gift of $3.8 million from the estate of William Womble, BA ’34, funded construction of the facility and endowed the Womble Professorship in Astronomy. Eric Meyer — an anesthesiologist who designed the telescope — and his wife, Barbara, donated $1 million and brought the telescope optics from Chicago personally.