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1/24/05

TRUSTEE EMERITUS GIVES $2 MILLION TO SLU FOR HEALTH CENTER

CANTON – St. Lawrence University Trustee Emeritus David L. Torrey, of 
Montreal, has given $2 million to renovate the University-owned building 
at 76 Park Street to become the Diana B. Torrey Health and Counseling 
Center, in memory of his daughter.
	David Torrey, president of Torcanas Inc., in Montreal, is a 1953 
graduate of the University. Diana B. Torrey, who graduated from St. Lawrence 
in 1982, died in San Francisco in 2003, after a courageous fight with 
stomach cancer. At the time of her death, she was one of the pre-eminent 
food stylists in Northern California. Having founded her own firm, she 
specialized in recipe development, editorial photography and advertising, 
and collaborated on a number of cookbooks, most notably America's Kitchen 
(Turner Publishing, 2001), which has been called "the ultimate national 
cookbook."
	"This project reflects Diana's lifelong interest in health and nutrition 
and her family hopes that this expansion of facilities for these services, and 
the location near the center of campus, will encourage students to avail 
themselves of the health and counseling services of the University," said 
David Torrey.
	The project meets a critical objective of the University's 10-year Master 
Plan for the campus, consolidating the health center and counseling center 
into one facility. Designs for the building will allow those entering the 
facility to go into either the health center or the counseling center anonymously, 
protecting confidentiality.
	In addition, part of the new facility will house St. Lawrence's office of security 
and safety, allowing the Noble Center on campus to be used exclusively for the arts. 
	Planning for the new facility is under way now, with construction scheduled 
to take place and be completed during the 2005-2006 academic year.
	Important contributions to the project are being made by members of David 
Torrey's family – Archie and Barbara Torrey MacAllaster, William A. Torrey and 
Jane Torrey Stauffer, as well as Diana Torrey's sister Heather Murphy and brothers 
John, Bruce and David Torrey.
	"David Torrey's generosity and commitment to St. Lawrence, for over a 
half-century, is legendary," St. Lawrence President Daniel F. Sullivan said. 
"In this latest project, David leads a whole family of Laurentians who every few 
years have found new ways to help move the University forward in areas of central 
importance to our future. Nobody does it better or more thoughtfully and strategically. 
We are deeply, deeply grateful."
	David Torrey earned his St. Lawrence degree in economics, and a master's 
degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario. He served 
as vice chair of Campaign St. Lawrence and has been a generous contributor to many 
University projects, as part of a two-family legacy.
	David Torrey's father, Arthur S. Torrey, was a 1924 St. Lawrence graduate 
and served as a trustee of the University for many years. David Torrey's sister, 
Barbara Torrey MacAllaster, is a 1951 graduate of St. Lawrence. Her husband is 
Trustee Emeritus Archie F. MacAllaster II, chairman of the investment firm MacAllaster 
Pitfield MacKay  Inc. in New York City, and a member of the St. Lawrence Class of 
1950; he grew up in Gouverneur, graduated from high school there, and is a long-time 
member of Barron's Annual Roundtable. David Torrey's brother, William A. Torrey Sr., 
is a 1957 St. Lawrence graduate. William Torrey is a National Hockey League Hall of 
Famer and Florida Panthers Alternate Governor; he spent 36 years in the NHL and was 
recently inducted into the Broward County Sports Hall of Fame in Sunrise, Florida. 
David Torrey's other sister, Jane Torrey Stauffer, graduated from St. Lawrence 
in 1962 and married Class of 1963 graduate Charles R. Stauffer.
	Among the projects benefiting from the generosity of the Torrey and 
MacAllaster families are the Torrey Wing of Owen D. Young Library, dedicated in 
1980 and including the MacAllaster 24-Hour Study Room; Sandy MacAllaster Soccer 
Field, dedicated in 2002 and named in memory of Archie and Barbara MacAllaster's 
son, Archie F. (Sandy) MacAllaster III, a 1978 graduate of the University who was 
killed in an automobile accident in 1979; and MacAllaster House, the president's 
home on Main Street, which was renovated and re-dedicated in 1999.

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