BUILT TO LAST GIVING WHERE IT DOES GOOD.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer GLENDALE - A businessman who emigrated from India more than four decades ago and lives within a mile of Glendale Community College Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States.
v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. $1 million to the college for a nursing and multimedia building. The donation by Bhupesh Parikh will help fund the three-story Bhupesh Parikh Health Sciences and Technology Building, which will be built near the college's Advanced Technology Building and will give the college its first on-campus on-campus adjective Referring to an on-site site of a medical complex with multiple buildings. Cf 'Off campus.'. health sciences lab, as well as space for digital arts and graphics labs. ``Community colleges rarely get gifts of this size,'' said John Davitt, GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). superintendent and president. ``We were very happy.'' Parikh - who is in the construction, development and property management business - said his Hindu upbringing up·bring·ing n. The rearing and training received during childhood. upbringing Noun the education of a person during his or her formative years Noun 1. led him to make the donation. Parikh's wife, Kumud, took accounting classes at GCC, although his daughters have attended other universities. ``We look around and we thought giving to a university will not ... make any big difference to them,'' Parikh said. ``But if I give to the small community college where I live and work and where I made money, that would be beneficial to (the) working class and youths.'' Officials said the donation will help the college nearly double the number of nurses it graduates every semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s - from the current 36 to about 66. The total cost of the building is expected to be $23 million, funded primarily with bond money. Work began recently, and a 2007 opening date has been set. The last $1 million donation the college received was in 1999, when Glendale restaurateurs and brothers Larry and Ralph Cimmarusti stepped forward to help fund the college's science center. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Businessman Bhupesh Parikh, on the campus of Glendale Community College, shows a rendering See render. (graphics, text) rendering - The conversion of a high-level object-based description into a graphical image for display. For example, ray-tracing takes a mathematical model of a three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a bitmap image. of the new health sciences and technology building he has donated $1 million to construct. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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