{"id":43129,"date":"2012-11-16T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=43129"},"modified":"2019-03-31T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T12:06:42","slug":"a-night-of-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-night-of-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High level donors to UCF were honored last night at the annual President\u2019s Appreciation Reception at the <em>FAIRWINDS <\/em>Alumni Center. Attendees were recognized for their annual giving levels of\u00a0 \u00a0$25,000 or more, or lifetime giving levels of $100,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hitt thanked supporters for sharing their time, talent and personal resources to ensure that UCF continues to stand for opportunity.\u00a0 \u201cYour philanthropy supports our students, faculty, programs and facilities. Your vision helps us to provide real-world experiences to our students. Your support strengthens our commitment to creating new facilities to meet student and community needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two special awards \u2500 the President\u2019s Award and the Partnership Award \u2500 were also given. The recipient of the 2012 President\u2019s Award was <strong>Dr. Neil Euliano<\/strong>, a long time supporter of UCF who led the way for the creation of the Veterans Commemorative Site on Memory Mall. \u201cWe thank you not only tonight, but always. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to honor your service and the sacrifices of all American veterans,\u201d said Hitt.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Partnership Award was given to <strong>The Wayne M. Densch Charitable Trust<\/strong>, whose decades-long partnership with UCF has resulted in the renaming of two athletics buildings and the creation of the Wayne Densch Sports Center, home to the UCF football program. 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None of what I\u2019ve accomplished would be possible without your generous contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: Santiago Rodriguez, Santiago Studios)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donors are honored at President\u2019s Appreciation Reception<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":43209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5693,650,1566,2510,5694,3703,4886],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-43129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-al-burnett","tag-burnett-honors-college","tag-engineering","tag-john-c-hitt","tag-nancy-burnett","tag-philanthropy","tag-ucf-foundation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Night of Thanks | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"High level donors to UCF were honored last night at the annual President\u2019s Appreciation Reception at the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center. 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