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9/25/03

SLU GRADUATE GIVES $1 MILLION FOR NEW SCIENCE FACILITIES

CANTON – St. Lawrence University graduate and retired Procter & Gamble executive 
Richard F. Stradling Jr., of Cincinnati, and his wife Gail, have given the 
University $1 million, designated for the organic chemistry suite in the 
planned new science complex.
	In recognition of the gift, the University will name that suite the 
Richard '64 and Gail Stradling Organic Chemistry Suite. The suite will 
include a teaching laboratory, an instrumentation room, an equipment 
preparatory room and the nuclear magnetic resonance storage facility.
	Stradling retired from Procter & Gamble as vice president of quality 
assurance worldwide in 1999, after working there for 33 years, primarily in 
research and product development. His brother, Samuel S. Stradling, was a 
chemistry professor at St. Lawrence for 36 years, retiring and being named 
professor emeritus in 1999.
	"This is an enormously generous gift," said University President 
Daniel F. Sullivan, "that takes us another big step closer to full funding 
of the approximately $38 million first phase of our four-phase, $60-million 
science and mathematics facilities project. Dick and I were students at 
St. Lawrence together, and his brother Sam was a national leader in undergraduate 
chemistry education and one of St. Lawrence's very best faculty members, 
so this gift has great personal meaning to me beyond its huge significance 
for our project. We are deeply, deeply grateful to Dick and Gail."
	Richard Stradling earned his St. Lawrence degree in chemistry,and 
was awarded a National Science Foundation grant while an undergraduate. He 
earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School 
of Business prior to joining Procter & Gamble in 1966. In 1998, he established 
the Stradling Student Research Fund at St. Lawrence, which awards a 
stipend to students conducting independent research. Gail Stradling is a 
graduate of SUNY Potsdam.
	A comprehensive science facilities planning process has been on-going 
at the University for the past three years. The plan calls for a four-phase, 
multi-year project that includes new construction and extensive renovation. 
In June of this year, St. Lawrence announced the receipt of a $5 million gift 
from an anonymous donor, to be dedicated toward Phase I of the project: two 
new interconnected buildings constructed parallel to one another for biology 
and chemistry, with animal behavior laboratory space for those departments, 
plus psychology, a greenhouse and extensive space for student and faculty 
research. The Richard '64 and Gail Stradling Organic Chemistry Suite will 
be part of this Phase I project.
	Phase I will cost $38 million for design and construction, and the 
University is seeking to raise an additional $8.5 million in endowment funds 
to offset future maintenance and depreciation, for total costs of Phase I 
equaling $46.5 million. Stradling's gift brings the University's identified 
resources for the project to $32.5 million. Construction will begin when all 
resources for Phase I have been pledged or received.

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