Boren Announces Final Portion Of $4 Million Gift To OU

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- The University of Oklahoma has received the final $1 million dollar installment of a $4 million gift from the Presbyterian Health Foundation that will go toward OU's new Cancer

Thursday, May 10th 2007, 9:05 pm

By: News On 6

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- The University of Oklahoma has received the final $1 million dollar installment of a $4 million gift from the Presbyterian Health Foundation that will go toward OU's new Cancer Institute.

OU President David Boren today told university regents that the foundation has given $68 million dollars to the OU Health

Sciences Center in Oklahoma City during the past 20 years.

Boren said he'll ask the State Regents for Higher Education to match the $4 million dollar donation, with the resulting $3 million going toward creating an endowment to support a researcher and research activities at the OU Cancer Center's Clinical Trial
Research Center.

In other business, OU regents approved the $368,000 purchase of a mobile clinical unit for use by the O-U College of Medicine in Tulsa.

And Boren announced that Enid native and OU alum Rich Taylor has been apointed as director of OU muscial theater department.

Taylor is vice persident of Walt Disney Entertainment and Costuming at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida.