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Alumni Support Capital Campaign
Hitting the $111 million mark in just 11 months, the GSB’s five-year, $175 million capital campaign counts among its supporters such alumni as David W. Fox, Charles W. Lake Jr., and Peter W. May, who have pledged a combined
$8 million in support.
“This is a particularly important time in the evolution and growth of the GSB, and I have great respect for the direction in which Dean Hamada  is taking the school, ” said Fox, ’58, (left, top) former chairman and CEO of Northern Trust Corporation and former chairman of the Chicago Stock Exchange board of governors.
A member of the Council on the Graduate School of Business since 1994, Fox recently contributed $1 million to the campaign. “The campaign will help raise students’ physical surroundings to a level commensurate with the intellectual excellence of the GSB, ” added Fox, discussing the GSB’s plans for a new four-story, integrated campus.
Lake, XP-5 (’49), (below) school’s fifth Executive M.B.A. Program class. His $2 million bequest will fund a professorship named for the program’s founder, Willard J. Graham, a former professor of accounting at the GSB.  retired chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in Chicago, is a graduate of the (See “A Distinguished Tradition: A History of the Executive M.B.A. Program. ”)
“Willard Graham had a great influence on my life. . . . I got to know him very well, and at every turn of the road, I thought he was a great man. I’m glad to honor him with this bequest, ” Lake said.
A graduate of both the college and the GSB, May has pledged a $5 million gift to the capital campaign. “I experienced the excellence of the GSB when I attended in 1965, and I want to help maintain that excellence for the future, ” said May, A.B. ’64, M.B.A. ’65, president and chief operating officer of Triarc Companies in New York. (See “Behind the Campaign.”)
“I am committed to the overall goals for both the university and the GSB. The GSB is one of the best business schools in the world. The reputation of its research and faculty is worldwide––its facilities should match, ” added May, who also serves as a university trustee and member of the Council on the Graduate School of Business.––A.R.
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