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7/25/05

ST. LAWRENCE ANNOUNCES GIFTS FROM THREE CALIFORNIA TRUSTEES

CANTON – Three St. Lawrence University trustees residing in California, and their respective 
spouses, have made gifts to the University that total over $6.25 million, all for the next 
comprehensive campaign. 
	W. Barry and Patricia H. Phelps, of Thousand Oaks, support the annual fund and the 
science project with their gift that combines outright giving with an irrevocable bequest, 
for a total of $1 million. Sarah Johnson Redlich and Christopher R. Redlich Jr., of 
Hillsborough, are funding an endowed professorship in the sciences; their new $1.85 million 
gift commitment also includes support for the St. Lawrence Fund. Donald and Sue Rose, of 
Palo Alto, have combined outright giving for the St. Lawrence Fund and for the science 
facilities project with an irrevocable bequest gift to bring their total pledge to $3.4 
million.  
	President Daniel F. Sullivan stated, "These gifts from our California trustees and their 
spouses provide powerful support to our new campaign, continuing the momentum of our 
fund-raising program and the University generally. Each is a leader with remarkable talent, 
and their impacts on the University are multi-dimensional. We are uplifted by their generosity, 
and deeply, deeply grateful."
	Barry and Patricia Phelps both graduated from St. Lawrence in 1969. Barry Phelps is 
president of Spirent Communications, in Calabasas, California. He has more than 23 years of 
experience in financial and business management for high-technology companies. Previously, 
Phelps served as president of Spirent Communications' Performance Analysis Solutions division; 
president and CEO of Spirent Communications' SmartBits business unit and chairman and CEO of 
MICOM Communications, a division of Nortel. A mathematics major and member of Sigma Chi 
fraternity at St. Lawrence, Barry Phelps holds an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester and 
was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2002.  Patricia Phelps earned her St. Lawrence degree 
in mathematics. She served as a member of the Board of Education in Thousand Oaks from 1998 to 
2002; from 2001 to 2002, she was president of the board. In 1997 they established the Phelps 
Biology Student Research Fund and in 2000 they established the Phelps Family University Fellows 
student/faculty research in the sciences at St. Lawrence; one of their three children, 
Christopher, graduated from St. Lawrence in 1996 with a degree in biology.  
	Class of 1982 graduate Sarah Johnson Redlich recently accepted appointment as vice chair of 
the next campaign's steering committee. In recognition of her leadership gift of $10 million 
in 2002, the largest gift in University history, the science building now under construction 
has been named the Sarah Johnson Redlich '82 Hall of Science; it is scheduled to be ready for 
student and faculty use in the fall of 2007. A trustee since 1999, Redlich is involved with a 
number of non-profit organizations in an advisory capacity or at the board level, including the 
San Francisco Lyric Opera and The Ethel Walker School. She has a strong interest in 
conservation and is on the advisory board of Conservation International. Redlich earned her 
St. Lawrence degree in biology and has been an active volunteer for the University, as a career 
advisor and in fund-raising. Christopher Redlich is chairman of Marine Terminals Corporation, 
a contract stevedore and terminal operating company headquartered in Oakland, California. He 
began working for the firm after graduating from Stanford University in 1972, was named 
president in 1987 and became chairman in 1997.
	A native of Pitcairn, New York, Don Rose graduated from Harrisville Central School and from 
St. Lawrence in 1964, earning the Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1971; his thesis concerned 
microchip superconductivity. This cutting-edge topic led to a career in the development and 
manufacture of magnetic and superconducting devices; magnetic bubble technology, significant 
in the evolution of computer memory capacity; silicon-based chips, fundamental to the operation 
of microprocessors; and management of Intel Corporation's implementation of consistent 
practices and procedures across its numerous facilities. Rose, now retired, holds six patents 
and is credited with over 75 publications and presentations to technology, management, industry 
and government forums. He established four University Fellowships, allowing undergraduate 
students the opportunity to undertake original research. Rose was awarded an Alumni Citation in 
2004, and was elected to the Board of Trustees the same year. Susan Rose earned a degree in 
business administration and worked as a senior manager in finance and information technology 
in several Silicon Valley high technology companies.  Now retired, she is on the board of the 
Peninsula Orchid Society and is currently serving as treasurer.
	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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