Ontario Tech College is mourning the passing of Edith Alger, whose variety and unwavering assist as a number one college benefactor all through its first 20 years has helped chart the college on its path to success.
Mrs. Alger was a lifelong Durham Area resident and neighborhood philanthropist who volunteered with, and financially supported, many non-profit organizations targeted on advancing training, selling the advantages of neighborhood philanthropy, and bettering entry to well being care in Durham Area. Mrs. Alger is a former Chair of the Durham Neighborhood Basis.
Her profound involvement with Ontario Tech may be traced again by means of the interval previous to the college’s 2002 founding together with her membership within the former Associates of UOIT (College of Ontario Institute of Expertise) Committee and her affiliation with the college’s Founding President Dr. Gary Polonsky.
She was beforehand a member of the Board of Governors at Durham Faculty (1987 to 1992), after which continued to supply perception into partnerships between the school and new college as a part of Dr. Polonsky’s President’s Advisory Committee.
Alger Household’s everlasting legacy at Ontario Tech’s Charles Corridor
The Alger Household identify is synonymous with the Metropolis of Oshawa’s Twentieth-century enterprise institution. Alger Press Ltd. was began within the early Nineteen Thirties by Ora Alger, later led by his son Stewart (a founding board member of Durham Faculty), after which his son Invoice. In 1946, Alger Press centralized its operations at 61 Charles Road in downtown Oshawa changing into one in all Canada’s largest companies within the business printing trade.
In 2009, the college started retrofitting the historic constructing from an industrial advanced into a contemporary post-secondary instructional facility. Recognized at this time as Charles Corridor, it’s now one of many key items of Ontario Tech’s infrastructure on the college’s downtown Oshawa location.
The principle ground entranceway at Charles Corridor is designated the Alger Household Foyer, the place a large Nineteen Fifties-era 41-inch Admiral horizontal large-format digital camera is displayed as an iconic image of Alger Press within the main-level hallway.
The Alger Household was the college’s first non-corporate donor to surpass the $1 million degree, a milestone that was achieved in 2004. This legacy continued with important contributions to the Dixon-Alger Hearth Studying Room within the Library on the college’s north Oshawa location, and 40 Ontario Graduate Scholarships to assist persevering with training and analysis initiatives.
The Alger Household is holding a Celebration of Life on Tuesday August 20 from 4 to six:30 p.m. at Durham Faculty Whitby Campus, W. Galen Weston Centre for Meals, 1604 Champlain Avenue. Please be part of with the household for a drop-in go to with pals to share recollections.
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“On behalf of Ontario Tech University, I express our deepest condolences to Edith’s family and her many friends. Her generosity and the Alger Family’s unwavering support of the university throughout its foundational years form a legacy the broader Ontario Tech community is exceptionally grateful for.”
–James Barnett, Vice-President, Development, Ontario Tech College
