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January 25, 2005

Kansas Wesleyan University is the recipient of a $1.2 million challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, university officials announced today. It is the largest grant in university history. The challenge grant will be used to help acquire funding for the University’s proposed new $6 million Student Activities Center.

“Our goal has been to secure at least half of the funds for the project prior to the public launch,” Kansas Wesleyan University President Philip P. Kerstetter said. “We have achieved that goal, and the receipt of this Mabee grant now will help us realize our overall campaign goal in a much more timely manner. The generosity of the Mabee Foundation is a tremendous boost to our fund-raising efforts for the new student activities center.”

A launch of the public portion of the fund-raising campaign for the new 50,000-square-foot facility is scheduled for February 18 on the Kansas Wesleyan campus. Kansas Wesleyan’s student activities center project will be funded entirely through private donations.