From left: Joy Rogers, chair of Brock's Advancement, Community Relations and Research committee; Angelo Ruscitti, trustee with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation; Ross MacDonald, trustee of The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation, and President Jack Lightstone
From left: Joy Rogers, chair of Brock's Advancement, Community Relations and Research committee; Angelo Ruscitti, trustee with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation; Ross MacDonald, trustee of The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation, and President Jack Lightstone
A close bond spanning half a century has just become stronger with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation contributing another $60,000 for improved learning at Brock.
The latest gift, which will go toward the new Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex, takes the foundation’s ongoing support to more than $240,000, much of it to support student scholarships.
Ross MacDonald, a foundation trustee who delivered the gift to Brock this week, said the parallels between the two parties are clear to see. Ontario Paper was a 20th-century world leader in new and recycled paper technologies, which helped the company become a community builder.
“And this is what Brock will be doing at the Cairns Complex,” said MacDonald, “educating students in how to put to use the latest technologies for a better community, and indeed, a better world.”
David Petis, Vice-President of Advancement at Brock, said that in supporting education, “our close friends at the foundation continue to play a critical role in helping develop the community’s next generation of leaders.”
The relationship between Brock and the foundation’s parent company predates the University’s opening in 1964. Arthur Schmon, then president of Ontario Paper, headed up the community-based Brock University Founders Committee, which raised money and found a site for Niagara’s new university campus. The main tower building at Brock is named for him.
Another Brock founder was Ontario Paper scientist Charles Sankey, who would serve as the University’s chancellor from 1969 to 1974.
“The University has benefited enormously from its shared history with Ontario Paper and the foundation,” said Petis. “We look forward to the relationship stretching far into the future.”
From left: Angelo Ruscitti; Melanie Denis, The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation scholar in entrepreneurship; Ross MacDonald; Jack Lightstone
