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$1 million grant awarded for Phase II renovations
by Crystal Davis staff writer
Cabrini College will receive a $1 million gift from the Hamilton Family Foundation, which they will use towards renovations being made to Founder's Hall.
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According to the terms of the agreement made between Cabrini and the Foundation,
Cabrini will receive $500,000 this December and then be awarded the remaining $500,000 over the next two years.
The grant was secured after a presentation made by College President Antoinette Iadarola and Steve Highsmith, a news anchor for WB 17 News at Ten and Board of Trustee member.
Many alumni, faculty and staff also worked on this project.
The donation is the largest the College has ever received from a foundation and will be used to underwrite the $3 million campaign to construct a new communications center. The center will support the large growth in the number of communication majors.
Cathy Yungmann, associate professor of communication, stated that the college was very appreciative of the Foundation's gift.
"The donation gives us a chance to vault the communication department into the 21st century," she said.
The new center will be built in the former Founder's Hall gymnasium. The construction being completed will be the second phase of the renovations made to Founder's Hall.
Once the center is completed, it will be named after the Hamilton Family Foundation.
The Hamilton family's members are descendants of John T. Dorrance, who is the former president of the Campbell Soup Company and the inventor of the formula for condensed soup. Dorrance once owned the estate now known as the Cabrini campus.
A $1 million grant from the Hamilton Family Foundation will be used for renovations to Founder's Hall. The former gymnasium will be turned into a communications center, featuring a new radio station, television studio, newsroom and faculty offices.
In the past, the Foundation has funded the building of a fiber optic network, the sports medicine laboratory in the Dixon Center, and a classroom equipped with Macintosh computers during Phase I renovations to Founder's Hall.
