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Great Canadian Gaming donates $1 million to SFU Segal Graduate School of Business
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Margaret Vandenberg, 604.291.5209; msv@sfu.ca
Howard Blank, GCGC, 604.303.1000; 604.512.6066;
hblank@gcgaming.com
February 18, 2005
Great Canadian Gaming Corporation is donating $1 million to support Simon Fraser University's Segal Graduate School of Business.
The donation will fund renovations and the naming of a policy room in the class “A” heritage building on the corner of Pender and Granville Streets in downtown Vancouver. The new school will house all of SFU's graduate business studies programs, as well as several new business and financial research centres, and, especially designed meeting space for downtown business education events and activities.
Great Canadian Gaming, which operates Great Canadian Casinos, is the largest community-based gaming management company in Western Canada.
“As a young boy growing up, I can recall riding my bicycle up Burnaby Mountain and watching Simon Fraser's first campus being built,” says Ross McLeod, chairman and CEO of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation. “It is an honour, more than 45 years later, to be a part of the university's important expansion with this donation.”
Says SFU President Michael Stevenson, "We are greatly pleased that this substantial donation from the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation provides critical support for SFU's plans to deliver graduate business programs of the highest quality right in the heart of the downtown, while also helping to preserve a distinguished heritage building that has played a significant role in Vancouver's business history.”
The Segal Graduate School of Business will open in September 2005.
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For more information visit:
www.sfu.ca/media/pr
www.gcgaming.com
The donation will fund renovations and the naming of a policy room in the class “A” heritage building on the corner of Pender and Granville Streets in downtown Vancouver. The new school will house all of SFU's graduate business studies programs, as well as several new business and financial research centres, and, especially designed meeting space for downtown business education events and activities.
Great Canadian Gaming, which operates Great Canadian Casinos, is the largest community-based gaming management company in Western Canada.
“As a young boy growing up, I can recall riding my bicycle up Burnaby Mountain and watching Simon Fraser's first campus being built,” says Ross McLeod, chairman and CEO of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation. “It is an honour, more than 45 years later, to be a part of the university's important expansion with this donation.”
Says SFU President Michael Stevenson, "We are greatly pleased that this substantial donation from the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation provides critical support for SFU's plans to deliver graduate business programs of the highest quality right in the heart of the downtown, while also helping to preserve a distinguished heritage building that has played a significant role in Vancouver's business history.”
The Segal Graduate School of Business will open in September 2005.
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For more information visit:
www.sfu.ca/media/pr
www.gcgaming.com