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	May 13, 2005 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 35

	Concordia, Irvine, receives $6.25 million
	for new three-story classroom building

	Concordia University, Irvine, Calif., has received a $6.25
million gift that will be used to construct a three-story,
45,000-square-foot Education, Business, and Technology Center.

	The university plans to break ground for the new facility this
summer and expects the project to be completed by August 2006, the
school's 30th anniversary year.

	The major gift was given by Bob and Kari Grimm and Barbara Grimm
Marshall of Bakersfield, Calif., owners of Grimmway Farms, the world's
largest grower, producer, and shipper of carrots. Bob Grimm serves on
the university's President's Advisory Council, and Barbara Grimm
Marshall serves on its Board of Regents.

	Last year, the university launched a $22 million capital
campaign for the new state-of-the-art educational facility. The $6.25
million gift brings the total raised to date to $12 million.

	Concordia, Irvine, President Jack Preus said the Grimm family's
gift demonstrates their "vision for Concordia's future -- a future
committed to providing the most advanced instructional technologies and
to serving the community as a premiere Christian university equipping
more students with a solid foundation of faith, ethics, and integrity."

	The university, with 1,850 students, offers bachelor of arts
degrees in 19 liberal arts majors and graduate degrees in business,
education, and theology. It is one of 10 colleges and universities in
the Synod?s Concordia University System.

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