Media Advisory: WVU to announce largest individual gift in school\'s history Tuesday

August 29th, 2001

West Virginia University President David C. Hardesty Jr. and Cameron Hackney, dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences, invite the media for a special announcement:

* WHAT :* Announcement of the largest private gift from individuals in the Universitys history

* WHEN :* Tuesday, Sept. 4, beginning at 10 a.m.

* WHERE :* Armentrout Study, Room 1011, Agricultural Sciences Building

* SPEAKERS :

  • WVU President David C. Hardesty Jr.
  • Dean Cameron Hackney, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences
  • WVU Foundation President Duke Perry
  • Morgantown attorney John Patrick Ball

* MEDIA : Press packets complete with a news release on the gift announcement and background material on the philanthropists will be available.A formal ceremony will follow at 11 a.m. on the grassy hillside behind the Agricultural Sciences Building.For broadcast stations attending, there will be a mult box hookup.

For TV stations unable to attend, a pre-taped video with short interviews and footage of WVU s agricultural farms and programs will be arriving at stations by Sept. 4. The announcement is embargoed until 10 a.m. that day.

* PARKING :* Evansdale Library parking lot