May 13, 2003

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Jennifer Meriam, Director (954) 262-5355
Mike Laderman, Associate Director, (954) 262-5354
Mara Kiffin, Coordinator, (954) 262-5350

NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship Receives $500,000 Gift from Lorraine Thomas

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL— Lorraine Thomas, wife of the late Dave Thomas, has given Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship a gift of $500,000, Dean Randolph A. Pohlman, Ph.D., announced today.

Thomas’s gift will lend her name to the R. David Thomas and I. Lorraine Thomas Dean’s Suite of NSU’s soon-to-be-completed 261,000 square foot facility that will bring the Huizenga School to NSU’s 250-acre main campus. In accepting the gift, Dean Pohlman said, “Lorraine Thomas is one of our community’s greatest assets. She and Dave have always been very generous and supportive of NSU.”

A Fort Lauderdale resident for more than 20 years, Thomas and her late husband—Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburger Restaurant founder Dave Thomas—have been supporters of Nova Southeastern University for more than 10 years. In fact, NSU’s Center for Psychological Studies recently honored her as Humanitarian of the Year.

Nova Southeastern University’s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, which feature both undergraduate and graduate programs, is taking the lead in developing an integrated philosophical framework that can help place its graduates in the forefront of management theory and practice in the new millennium. It provides quality business and management education to students across the nation and world.

For more information, contact NSU’s Joe Pineda at (954) 262-5007.