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11/13/00

MILLION-DOLLAR SCHOLARSHIP FUND ENDOWED AT SLU

CANTON -- A $1 million endowed scholarship has been funded at 
St. Lawrence University, through the bequest of an alumni couple.
	The Elizabeth Rice Robinson and Charles T. Robinson Endowed 
Scholarship has been established at the University with the bequest. 
The fund will assist St. Lawrence in providing four new scholarships 
a year to eligible students.
	Both Robinsons graduated from the University in 1927. Charles 
Robinson died in 1990; at that time, Elizabeth Robinson told officials
 at St. Lawrence of her intention to establish the fund in honor of her 
husband, who had attended with the assistance of scholarship aid.
	"I hope this will allow students to attend the University the 
same way Robbie did over 60 years ago," Mrs. Robinson said. "We had a 
good life together and the University played an important role. It was 
his education, involvement in athletics and the generosity of others 
that enabled him to ultimately start a successful oil company."
	Charles Robinson founded the Fairfield Oil Company, Fairfield, 
Connecticut, in 1946; the company later merged with other firms to become 
the Fairfield Home Oil Company. He retired in 1968 and the couple moved 
to San Diego, California, in 1974. Elizabeth Robinson was a math and English 
teacher; she died in April of this year.

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