Cranwell family gifts $7 million to Virginia Tech to support international students

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Cranwell family gifts $7 million to Virginia Tech to support international students

Amy Friedenberger 19 hrs ago

A Southwest Virginia family has given Virginia Tech $7 million to support programs and services for international students, the university announced Wednesday.

The Cranwell family’s donation — the largest the university’s student affairs has ever received — will benefit the Cranwell International Center, which is named after the family. The center responds to the specific needs of the international community, which is made up of 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 100 countries.

Bill Cranwell and his wife, Ellen, and his brother Bob Cranwell and his wife, Susie, pooled together the donation. The brothers are graduates of Virginia Tech.

The family’s donation has already been put to use on some initiatives, including pre-departure programs in China, the International Street Fair, various intercultural training programs and the Global Fellow in Residence Program that provides short-term housing for a globally-oriented researcher or speaker. The funds will also be put toward improving the center’s Mozaiko Living-Learning Community, which opened four years ago for U.S. and international students to live together with the mission for students to learn about one another’s cultures.

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Amy Friedenberger
Amy Friedenberger is a reporter for The Roanoke Times. Follow her on Twitter at @ajfriedenberger. She can be reached at 540-981-3356 or [e-mail].

[CurtEastPoint]

1. How nice to read that people of means are using their $ to do good. Wonderful!

[Yonnie3]

2. Are these the same Cranwells? Medicaid kickbacks

Federal order implicates S.W. Virginia businessmen

The Roanoke Times
Jun 25, 2004

The federal government is demanding $21.8 million in penalties from one of the nation's largest institutional pharmaceutical companies in connection with a 1997 deal with prominent Roanoke and New River Valley businessmen that officials say involved kickbacks.

It is the largest amount of money ever sought in a civil penalty, according to the Office of Inspector General in Washington, D.C., the same agency that issued the order Wednesday.

Involved in the deal, according to the order, were Robert Cranwell and Richard W. Frizzell of Blacksburg and William Cranwell of Roanoke, who at the time jointly owned HCMF Corp., a privately held company with offices in Roanoke and Blacksburg. Also named is Keith Green, who was HCMF's chief executive officer in 1997, and Charles B. Walker of Richmond, who has been described as a business associate of William Cranwell. None of the businessmen has been penalized by the Office of Inspector General.

The federal order states that PharMerica Drug Systems Inc. of Tampa, Fla., agreed to pay the men an excessive amount for a small Roanoke pharmacy. In exchange, the sellers would send PharMerica all the Medicaid patient pharmacy business from HCMF's 17 nursing homes and eight assisted-living facilities for the next seven years.

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from: https://roanoke.com/archive/federal-order-implicates-s-w-virginia-businessmen/article_a749f9c9-0489-5126-9dc5-1c6b1f1c3177.html