6: John Sattler 3: Octavio Jones
2
1, 5: Kevin Riddell 2, 4
and
3
1
4
5
6
A 21st century collaboration
O
n Saturday, May 8, more than 300 donors and Ohio University community members celebrated the grand opening of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations and Charles R. and Marilyn Y. Stuckey Academic & Research Center. The facility represents a historic partnership with the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology. The $34.5 million ARC building is one of only four university buildings financed primarily through private donations. The Osteopathic Heritage Foundations contributed $10 million toward construction, and Russ College alumnus Charles Stuckey, BSME ’66, and his wife, Marilyn, donated $5 million.
1 and 5: The ARC’s architecture includes a skylight above the “living room,” where students, faculty and staff can gather informally. 2: OU-COM student Paul Eichenseer congratulates Daryl Sybert, DO ’86, after cutting the ribbon on the Sybert Family Medical Research Laboratory. They are joined by Jack Brose, dean of OU-COM. 3: Russ College students conduct demonstrations. 4: OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends board president Jeffery Stanley, DO ’82, opens the OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends Café. 6: President Roderick McDavis cuts the ribbon at the Wall of Honor for donors with the Stuckeys and Osteopathic Heritage Foundations President and CEO Richard Vincent and his wife, Karen, DO ’99.
S P R I N G / S U M M E R
2 0 1 0
7