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Alumni building also will house library, classrooms.
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Posted December 8 2005
It's not even their own alma mater, but Marleen and Harold Forkas want to give Florida Atlantic University alumni a home on campus.
The Boca Raton couple gave $1 million Wednesday toward an alumni center for the 41-year-old university. Plans call for an airy, inviting $3.2 million building with a library, great hall, classrooms and a "lighthouse tower" symbolically beckoning graduates back to campus.
Construction is expected to start in 2006. The building will be named for the couple.
"We both feel strongly about higher education," Marleen Forkas explained in a written statement.
She graduated from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and went on to a 40-year career in fashion design and manufacturing. He retired as the owner of eight Midas Muffler dealerships.
The two came to know FAU after moving to the area from Long Island in 1988. They were among the early benefactors of its football team and regularly attend home and away games, the university said.
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Now we need about 30 more of these couples who "both feel strongly about FAU football." Nice donation, but someone missed the ball here. We need a stadium more than an alumni center.
Would be nice to call it Forkas Field….commentators would love that!
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