Mount Royal University

Gord's longest institutional relationship, running four decades from an introduction through Board Chair Roy Deyell's quarterly business dinners in 1985. He co-chaired the $25 million "Bright Minds, Bright Futures" campaign from 2001 to 2003 — the largest fundraising effort in the institution's history — and then chaired the Mount Royal Foundation Board until stepping down in 2007. The family's giving includes the David Memorial Fund of $207,000, which Mount Royal matched two-to-one to triple the endowment, Military Memorial Bursaries of $25,000, the Dr. John H. Garden Memorial Park, and an 8% estate bequest of roughly $1.3 million.