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Two years after Cole Reading Room was renovated into a quiet study space with attention paid to restoring the original woodwork, the second half of St. Lawrence University’s historic Herring-Cole Hall will receive renovations of its own, thanks to a generous donation last month by a Laurentian couple.
Film legend and author Kirk Douglas ‘39 and his wife, Anne, will give $2 million to St. Lawrence University to further endow student scholarships and maintain operation of the residence hall named after Douglas. Through the Douglas Foundation, the couple has donated a total of $7 million to the University since 2012.
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” remains one of the most beloved Christmas songs of all times, and it gives more to St. Lawrence University than just a special holiday feeling.
St. Lawrence University’s Fed Challenge team has advanced to the semifinal round, which will take place on Nov. 16 at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The newly renovated Quad at St. Lawrence University was made possible by a generous gift from one of the University’s most exemplary benefactors, creating new entrances that will enhance the central green space on campus.
At the age of three, Morgan O’Hare '16 was diagnosed with a form a childhood cancer of the eye, known as retinoblastoma, and had to have one of her eyes removed. All the years of close medical attention and therapy, though, is something that she attributes to her interest in medicine today.
At its meeting in June, the St. Lawrence University Board of Trustees elected Nicoline Carlson Sawabini, Class of 1979 and parent of Kathryn ’15, as a new member of its board.
St. Lawrence University’s Board of Trustees has elected Lee Bailey, Class of 1974, and Joanie Byrne Hall, a Class of 2017 parent, as new term members as well as Christian Ehrhardt, Class of 2007, and Morgan (Pendergast) Baker, Class of 2008, as McCurdy-Sprague trustees.
St. Lawrence University ranked No. 14 among small schools, with 10 alumni currently volunteering worldwide, in the Peace Corps’ 2015 rankings of the top volunteer-producing colleges and universities across the country
Like many St. Lawrence University students past and present, Mike Arpey ’85 grew up in a family where there was never any talk of Wall Street or the world of finance at the dinner table. Neither of his parents went to college. But while he was a student at St. Lawrence University, he met John Hannon ’44, a St. Lawrence alumnus and then CEO of Bankers Trust.