EVOLVE Business and Professional Magazine August 2018 | Page 30

DAYTONA STATE
names new student center for
L. GALE LEMERAND
S
by Harry Russo
ofia Rivas looks across the 84,000-square-foot expanse help foster campus pride. Many student groups participated
of Daytona State College’s new student center under in brainstorming sessions with the architects, and we are very
construction on its main campus. The former student pleased that they took our ideas into account when designing
government president and class of 2018 alumna is filled with a
combination of pride and gratitude for having been able to play
the building.”
During a May 31 ceremony, DSC named the facility in honor
a part in the design and construction of the $32 million facility of benefactor and former trustee L. Gale Lemerand, marking
slated for completion next spring. a formal recognition of Mr. Lemerand’s longtime support of
“This is a building where student life will be front and
the college and its students, including a most recent gift of $2
center,” she notes. “It will be inviting to all students to participate million to the Daytona State College Foundation. The gift brings
in social activities and quiet study if they so choose, and will the total to more than $3 million donated to DSC by the prolific
The L. Gale Lemerand Student Center will embody
a design and function for modern-era higher education
that will focus on student engagement.
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