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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Ken Langone |
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| Contributor | NYDem Junior |
| Last Modifed | NYDem Junior
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| Info | Kenneth Langone is the founder, chairman and CEO of Invemed Associates LLC, a New York Stock Exchange member firm engaged in investment banking and brokerage. Mr. Langone is also the founder of the nation-wide home improvement retailer, Home Depot which he founded in 1978. He received a B.A. from Bucknell University in 1957 and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1960. Currently he is the vice chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Stern School of Business, chairman of the Board of Trustees of New York University Medical School and a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and its executive committee.
The successful businessman and entrepreneur, with his wife Elaine, pledged $11 million to Bucknell University to build the Kenneth G. Langone Athletics and Recreation Center. After two years of construction, the facility opened to acclaim in 2003. Three primary venues lie within the Kenneth G. Langone Athletics & Recreation Center officially dedicated Friday, April 25, 2003: The Arthur D. Kinney Jr. Natatorium, the 4,000-seat Gary A. Sojka Pavilion and the Krebs Family Fitness Center. Other features include a new location for the Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame, a display of Bucknell's Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, a sports medicine and athletic training suite, classrooms, modern offices for coaches and staff and increased locker room space for varsity and recreational athletes.
The current pledge of $11 million is another in the long line of philanthropic endeavors by Mr. Langone. He has served Bucknell University in other capacities as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1980 through 1996, as chairman of the Nominating and Endowments Committees and a member of the Executive Committee.
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