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Over 200 Enthusiastic Alumni, Friends Attend Opening Ceremony
for Hynes Athletics Center
New Rochelle, NY – Iona College celebrated an opening ceremony for the Hynes Athletics Center with a crowd of over 200 alumni, benefactors, students and administrators on February 25. James P. Hynes (Iona Class of 1969), who donated the largest single gift in Iona’s history for the building - $10 million, said he is “extremely excited the new facility is attracting throngs of students at all hours of the day and night.” Students returned for the spring semester thrilled to see the newly opened Hynes Center and the numerous wellness and recreational programs now available to them. Iona rowing team co-captain Katie Boyd, who practices with her teammates in the Hynes Center rowing tank early every morning, told the audience “the Hynes Center has dramatically improved student life. I consider myself lucky to witness all of the exciting changes happening on campus,” she said. The Hynes Athletics Center was part of Iona’s Vision Into Reality Capital Campaign, which closed in January 2005 at over $82.6 million. The campaign also funded the Iona College Arts Center (opened in October 2000), renovations of the science building and the former Mulcahy Campus Events Center (now part of the Hynes Center), a new main entrance, an endowment for more than 23 scholarship funds and the Robert V. LaPenta ’67, ’00H Student Union (opened in August 2005). The College recently embarked on a new campaign, Visions of Excellence, to expand and renovate Ryan Library, in addition to constructing a new façade for the building. These facilities will immeasurably enhance Iona’s fast-growing reputation. As Director of Athletics Pat Lyons explained, the Hynes Center has become “the place to be” on campus with a plethora of dance and fitness classes offered throughout the week and the many intramural teams students are quickly organizing. “When I was a student here in 1992, I had a good experience. Because of Jim and Ann Marie Hynes’ generosity and the generosity of everyone who participated in Vision into Reality, Iona students will now have a great experience and you can just take a look around the campus to see why,” he said. Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education. Iona, currently listed in the US News and World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges 2006" and The Princeton Review's Best Northeastern Colleges 2006 edition, offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as master of arts, master of science and master of business administration degrees and numerous post-graduate certificate programs. (-30-) For questions or more information please contact:
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