On March 18, 1980, during a devotional assembly in BYU’s Marriott Center, President Dallin H. Oaks announced the Board of Trustees’ decision to name the new campus management building in honor of N. Eldon Tanner. President Oaks characterized President Tanner as a practitioner and exemplar of the arts of management, as a man who has made a profound impact on the Church and its members, and as an appropriate role model for our students in management. At the groundbreaking, held November 8, 1980, speaker after speaker commented upon the appropriateness of honoring President Tanner with a building which would serve students and faculty in the years to come in much the same manner that N. Eldon Tanner has served the Church, his community, his country, and his family. N. Eldon Tanner was born May 8, 1898, in Salt Lake City, to Nathan William Tanner and Sarah Edna Brown Tanner. Most of his life was spent in the Mormon colonies in Alberta, Canada. He attended school in Calgary and, just a short time after graduation, became a teacher and principal of a three-room school in Hill Spring. There he met and married Sara Isabelle Merrill.
1980年3月18日，在杨百翰大学Marriott中心举行的灵修会上，Dallin H. Oaks会长宣布理事会决定将新校园管理大楼命名为N. Eldon Tanner大楼。Oaks会长称赞Tanner会长是管理艺术的践行者和典范，是对教会及其成员产生深远影响的人物，也是我们管理学学生当之无愧的楷模。在1980年11月8日举行的奠基仪式上，演讲者们纷纷指出，以N. Eldon Tanner的名字命名这座未来将服务于师生的大楼恰如其分——正如Tanner毕生服务教会、社区、国家和家庭的方式。N. Eldon Tanner于1898年5月8日出生在盐湖城，父母是Nathan William Tanner和Sarah Edna Brown Tanner，其大半生都在加拿大阿尔伯塔省的摩门教聚居区度过。他在卡尔加里上学，毕业后不久便成为一名教师，并在Hill Spring的一所三间教室的学校里担任校长。在那里，他结识并与莎拉·伊莎贝尔·梅里尔结为连理。