REMINDER/More Than 100 Children Ages Birth-5 Years Expected To Participate In Groundbreaking Ceremony of Jim & Jan Moran Family Center Village At Nova Southeastern University.

Business Editors/Education Writers

REMINDER...for Tuesday (May 15)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001

Nova Southeastern University President Ray Ferrero, Jr., and NSU's Board of Trustees will host the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jim & Jan Moran Family Center Village tomorrow (Tuesday, May 15), at 2:30 p.m., at the center's future site (currently home to NSU's Communiversity) at 7676 SW 35 Street, Davie.

More than 100 children ages birth-to-5 enrolled in NSU's Family Center programs are expected to help with the festivities participating in family oriented activities and the ceremonial "golden shovel" dig.

Both Jim and Jan Moran will join Ferrero for the announcement, as well as NSU President Emeritus Abe Fischler, who will emcee the afternoon's event. The University School Sunsations singing troupe will also entertain.

Jim and Jan Moran, along with JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (JMFE), announced a $6 million challenge for the Family Center at Nova Southeastern University in March. Through the challenge, Jim and Jan Moran and JM Family Enterprises, Inc., will match up to $3 million in new or increased gifts to the Family Center's Capital Campaign. The gift, one of the largest ever to Nova Southeastern University, will help the Family Center reach its $12.5 million Capital Campaign goal, significantly expand its child care/early child care development community outreach programs, and develop an endowment fund at the Community Foundation of Broward to provide ongoing support for the center.

The Jim & Jan Moran Family Center Village will be located on five acres of newly acquired property located adjacent to the main campus, accessible from University Drive. The new site will enable all Family Center programs, including the Ralph J. Baudhuin Oral School, the Family Center preschool, the parent/child programs, the Child Care Training programs, and the Autism Consortium--among others on the Davie campus--to be housed in one location. Special features of the new facility include: home-like settings for the infant, toddler, preschool, and parent/child programs, specially designed family rooms to encourage parents and children to play and learn together, outdoor spaces extending from the classrooms, academic spaces for students, researchers, trainers and visiting scholars, and classrooms designed to facilitate the expression of children's ever-changing interests.

Other donors to the project include: A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, William and Norma Horvitz, Nancy Knox, David and Fran Horvitz, Jay Langner, Dan and Claire Marino, Shepard Broad Foundation, John and Lisa Hussman, Faye Trueblood, Lois Deicke, Ellaine Honig, and the Ansel Family.

For more information, contact Shelly Cavalancia, director of development at NSU's Family Center, at [phone].