February 4, 2010 - Shorter College officials announced at a dinner on Thursday, Feb. 4, that longtime Rome businessman Robert H. Ledbetter, Sr. is funding $1.5 million to enable the location of the college’s School of Business in the MidTown Crossing Shopping Center in Rome. To honor Mr. Ledbetter’s generosity, Shorter will name its business school the Robert H. Ledbetter College of Business. This represents the first of Shorter’s schools to be named.