Trustees: Trustees Name Facilities

TRUSTEES NAME FACILITIES, ESTABLISH TWO ENDOWED CHAIRS

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees 
on Wednesday (4/3) named 30 interior spaces of future 
buildings for donors, created two endowed chairs for 
professors, and established several named endowed funds.

Alumni, Business, Food, Equine and Arena spaces named

     Trustees recognized several donors by naming portions 
of yet-to-be-constructed buildings for them.  The board 
recognized the donors for gifts toward the construction, 
equipping or furnishing of classrooms, laboratories, offices 
and other spaces in five facilities that are to be built on 
the Columbus campus in the next few years.  Construction of 
the Galbreath Equine Trauma Hospital began several months 
ago.

     Jerry May, vice president for development, noted that 
$358.1 million had been received in gift receipts and 
pledges through February in support of the university's $850 
million fund-raising campaign.

     May said that most of the internal naming proposals 
recognize support from corporate sources.

     "Corporate partnerships are enormously important to 
excellence at Ohio State," he said.  "During the last 10 and 
a half years, corporate gift support to the university has 
amounted to nearly $310 million.  In the last eight months 
alone, 354 corporations have given gifts of $10,000 or more, 
and our corporate gift receipts through February have 
amounted to nearly $18.5 million."

     Ohio State ranks fourth in corporate support among the 
nation's public and private universities and colleges.

     "These corporate gifts support students, faculty, and 
academic excellence, and promote quality in all we do.  We 
could not be the university we are today without the private 
and corporate support we enjoy," May said.

     The facilities and named interior spaces are as 
follows:

Alumni House

     -- Columbia Gas Presidential Office Suite.
     -- Greenfield Printing and Publishing Company and the 
Wilson and David Moon Families Office of the Vice President 
for Communications.
     -- Walter and Gail Klevay Parlor.
     -- Thomas E. Wheeler Communications Room.

Max M. Fisher College of Business

     -- Bank One Columbus, NA, Graduate Student Lounge.
     -- William M. Batten Computer Research Laboratory.
     -- John W. Berry Atrium.
     -- John W. Berry Auditorium.
     -- Continental Office Courtyard Area.
     -- Ernst & Young Interview Waiting Area.
     -- Ernst & Young Large Classroom.
     -- Ernst & Young Lecture Room.
     -- Fifth Third Bank Classroom.
     -- Huntington National Bank Plaza.
     -- Walt Klevay Dean's Conference Room.
     -- Nationwide Insurance Honors Lounge.
     -- David A. Rismiller Classroom.

Food Science and Technology Building

     -- Brewster Dairy Food Fermentations Laboratory.
     -- Jessie and Wilbur A. Gould Seminar Room.
     -- Ohio Poultry Association Department Chairperson's 
Office.
     -- Ohio Poultry Association Faculty, Staff and Alumni 
Lounge.
     -- Sandridge Food Corporation Low Temperature 
Phenomenon Laboratory.
     -- Smith Dairy Nutrition and Toxicology Research 
Colony.
     -- Worthington Foods Microbiological Media Prep Room.

Galbreath Equine Trauma Hospital

     -- Marilynn and John Berry Reception Area.
     -- Columbus Serum Corporation Conference Room.
     -- Dr. Al Gabel Surgery Suite.

Schottenstein Center

     -- Robert F. Baker Ticket Office.
     -- Health Power HMO Hospitality Room.
     -- Value City Arena.

Trustees establish chairs in Cancer Research and Optometry

     Trustees established The William Greenville Pace III 
Endowed Chair in Cancer Research with $1.5 million from a 
fund established in 1969 by an anonymous donor.  The fund 
was established in honor of Pace, of NAPLES, Fla., a 
professor emeritus and physician who earned his Master of 
Medical Science degree at Ohio State in 1959.  The chair, in 
the College of Medicine, will support advancement of medical 
knowledge in basic and clinical research on cancer with an 
emphasis on hematology oncology.

     The board also established The William Greenville Pace 
III and Joann Norris Collins-Pace Chair Fund for Cancer 
Research with gifts totaling $400,000 from Pace and Collins-
Pace.  When funding reaches $1.5 million, a chair will be 
established to support advancement of medical knowledge in 
basic and clinical cancer research with an emphasis on 
surgery.

     The board also established the Vision Service Plan 
(VSP) Chair for the Advancement of Professional Practice, 
with $1.25 million from the Vision Service Plan, 
Northeastern Region, to support a chair in the College of 
Optometry.  The chair was established to support the highest 
ethical standards and professionalism in the independent 
practice of optometry.  VSP also provides scholarships to 
students and, through another endowment, basic equipment 
assistance to every second-year student.

     The board accepted seven other new named endowed funds 
with gifts totaling $390,321:

     -- The Endowed Chair Fund for Director of the Ohio 
State University Marching Band, $167,167.

     -- The Ciba Vision-Richard M. Hill Contact Lens Endowed 
Scholarship Fund, $66,666.

     -- The Dean Arthur Martin Scholarship Fund, $52,146, in 
the College of Law.

     -- The Roxanne (Roxey) C. Sedgwick Critical Difference 
for Women Re-Entry Scholarship Fund, $41,808.

     -- College of Dentistry Endowed Faculty Research 
Enrichment Fund, $30,408.

     -- The Charles M. Lynn Memorial Award, $16,150 for 
scholarships in the College of Engineering.

     -- The Elizabeth Dancey Scholarship Fund, $15,976, in 
the School of Music.

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Contact:  Jerry May, vice president for development, (614) 
292-2970, or John Meyer, associate vice president, (614) 
688-3250.


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