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11/14/05
NEWELL GIFT ENABLES NEXT PHASE FOR SLU ARTS RENOVATIONS
CANTON - St. Lawrence University Trustee Allan P. Newell, Hammond, has pledged $1.2 million
to the University's next comprehensive fund-raising campaign.
The pledge is for the St. Lawrence Fund and the Newell Center for Arts Technology. This
gift, along with several other recent commitments, will allow the University to proceed
with Phase Two of improvements to facilities for the arts in the Noble Center, beginning
in the summer of 2006. Plans in Phase Two include the Newell Center for Arts Technology,
incorporating rehearsal and performance spaces; a photo studio classroom and darkroom; a
new elevator; and the addition of wireless technology throughout the first two phases of
the building. Phase One renovations were completed in January of 2005.
The St. Lawrence Fund enables the University to meet its ongoing, annual financial needs.
St. Lawrence President Daniel F. Sullivan stated, "Allan Newell has a generosity of spirit
and commitment to the North Country that is exceeded by no one. His gifts to St. Lawrence
have, in every case, tipped the balance so that we could do something truly important.
That is again the case here, and we are deeply grateful."
Newell stated, "Midway through my service as a University trustee, as the digital age
was beginning to engulf us all, I realized that there was a great opportunity to make
a large step forward in the arts at St. Lawrence. Bringing new technologies to the arts
is an important part of the overall plan to prepare students for life in this young and
rapidly changing century. I feel fortunate to be able to play a role in bringing these
technologies to the arts learning experience at St. Lawrence."
A native of Ogdensburg, Newell has been a trustee of the University since 1993. He is a
private investor and a member of the Board of Directors of Newell Rubbermaid. Among the
projects and facilities benefiting from his generosity to St. Lawrence, with Catherine
B. Newell, are a scholarship for North Country students; the Newell Field House; the
St. Lawrence boathouse in Waddington; and North Country Public Radio. Many other programs
and organizations in the North Country region, including the Remington Art Museum, the
Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam, have also benefited from
gifts from the Newells and the Sweetgrass Foundation, of which he is the founder.
St. Lawrence is in the planning stages of its next comprehensive campaign. Its most recent
campaign concluded December 31, 2002, with $132 million raised from alumni, parents of
current and former students and friends of the University.
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