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2/7/05

BOARD CHAIR AND HIS WIFE GIVE $2.5 MILLION TO SLU

CANTON – St. Lawrence University Chair of the Board of Trustees Lawrence J. 
Winston and his wife, Sally A. Winston, of Bonita Springs, Florida, have 
pledged $2.5 million to the University's next comprehensive fund-raising 
campaign, to be used in support of the St. Lawrence Fund and to provide 
permanent funding for what is now named The Laurentian Room in the Student 
Center. In recognition of their gift, the room will be named The Winston 
Room in their honor, and dedicated in February of 2005.
	Lawrence Winston, chair of Distribution Alternatives, Inc., is a 
1960 graduate of St. Lawrence, and has been chair of the Board of Trustees 
since 2001. He joined the Board of Trustees in 1987, and served as vice 
chair of the University's Campaign Steering Committee during Campaign 
St. Lawrence, which concluded in 2002 and exceeded its goal, raising 
$132.2 million.
	He earned his St. Lawrence degree in psychology and has been active 
as a volunteer in fund-raising and career advisement. The Winstons established 
the Lawrence J. Winston Family Scholarship at St. Lawrence in 1986; it has 
helped pay the costs of the junior and senior years of more than 30 students 
since its inception.
	Sally Winston holds an associate's degree from Green Mountain College. 
She established the Sally Winston Campus Beautification Fund in 1993 and funds 
annually the placement of flower arrangements in various locations throughout 
campus on major college event weekends. In addition, Sally has funded the 
redecorating and furnishing of several cabins at St. Lawrence's Conference 
Center in the Adirondacks, Canaras.
	Larry Winston stated, "Sally and I felt strongly about organizing our 
largest gift to the University while I am chairing the Board of Trustees, to 
provide an example of the leadership and commitment necessary as the University 
initiates a major new Capital Campaign. We chose to support the Student Center 
because it is at the heart of the campus, both physically and in the way it 
strengthens the student experience. We are especially pleased that, because 
the Student Center is completed, our gift will free up funds that can now be 
channeled into other ongoing, critical or new initiatives, including the 
construction of our new science center and the never-ending goal of increasing 
the University's endowment."
	"Larry and Sally Winston have done it all for St. Lawrence over a 
lifetime of commitment and support," said President Daniel F. Sullivan. 
"Chairing the Board of a university requires a huge time commitment, which 
Larry and Sally both have made with a wonderful spirit, and now this new 
leadership gift comes forward from two of the best people a university could 
have. It gives our new campaign a powerful boost; it challenges others to 
stretch in their support for St. Lawrence; and it exemplifies their deeply 
held belief that a St. Lawrence education should be about the whole student. 
We are deeply, deeply grateful."
	The Winston Room in the Student Center is a multi-purpose room designed 
for movies, lectures, comedians and performers. The space is used exclusively 
for student life events with attendance of up to about 100 people.

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