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09/02-- Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering alumni Robert and Marilyn Glenn Forney, from left, and Purdue President Martin C. Jischke don hardhats as a backhoe breaks ground Saturday (9/28) on a $19.5 million expansion project, the largest in the school's history. The Forneys, of Unionville, Pa.,both of whom are 1947 chemical engineering graduates, have committed $10 million to help fund the new construction. The school will build a five-story,
96,000-square-foot addition on the current building and equip the newand existing facilities with state-of-the-art technologies and
high-performance instrumentation. Construction is scheduled to be complete before classes begin in 2004.
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