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 ESPN.com - Laurie family donated $25M for project
Nancy Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, a co-founder of the Wal-Mart empire with his late brother, Sam Walton.
Paige Sports Arena was named for Elizabeth Paige Laurie at the request of her parents, Bill and Nancy Laurie, said the spokesman for Missouri's athletic department, Chad Moller, on Friday.
Bud Walton, who died in March 1995, was senior vice president and a director of the empire that became the world's largest retailer.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1763836&type=story

  
 Walton son dies in plane crash - Columbia Missourian
Walton was one of Sam Walton’s four children and a cousin of Ann Kroenke and Nancy Laurie of Columbia.
Walton is survived by his wife, Christy, and son, Luke; his mother, Helen; two brothers, Rob and Jim; and a sister, Alice.
Walton, 58, of Jackson, Wyo., was piloting an ultralight that crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, the company said.
www.digmo.com /news/story.php?ID=14563

  
 Archives: Story
Nancy Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, co-founder of Wal-Mart.
She is the only daughter of billionaires Bill and Nancy Laurie, Columbia residents who liquidated $25 million in Wal-Mart stock to jump-start construction of the $75 million home of the Missouri Tigers, which is to open this fall.
In a statement, Bill and Nancy Laurie said: "As supporters of education and athletics, we are proud of our association with the University of Missouri.
www.lebanondailyrecord.com /articles/2004/03/27/sports/news03.txt

  
 Arkansas News Bureau
Laurie, Nancy Walton, 52, $2.9 billion, Columbia, Mo., inheritance.
Walton, Helen R., 84, $20.5 billion, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart.
Walton, Jim C., 55, $20.5 billion, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart.
www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2003/09/20/News/9578.html

  
 MU to dump ‘Paige’ from arena
Nancy Laurie is the daughter of Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton.
In 2001, Bill and Nancy Laurie of Columbia donated $25 million toward the construction of a new basketball arena at MU and then named the facility, which opened last month, for their daughter.
Bill and Nancy Laurie transferred the arena’s naming rights to the University of Missouri yesterday, four days after their 22-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Paige Laurie, was accused of cheating in college.
www.showmenews.com /2004/Nov/20041124News004.asp

  
 St. Louis Blues Online Team
Their projects include the E. Paige Laurie Missouri Professorship of Equine Science, the William and Nancy Laurie Research Fund at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital Neonatal Transport Team and The Front Door, a shelter for abused young women.
Nancy is the daughter of James L. "Bud" Walton, who co-founded the Wal-Mart store chain with his late brother, Sam Walton.
Bill and Nancy were married in 1974 after dating while in high school and college.
www.stlouisblues.com /team/frontoffice/laurie.html

  
 Sam Walton - Enpsychlopedia
Two daughters of Sam's brother Bud Walton, Ann Kroenke and Nancy Laurie, hold smaller shares in the company and are also billionaires in their own right.
Walton was born to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
Walton was honored for all his pioneering efforts in retail in March of 1992 when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. Bush.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Sam_Walton

  
 The Maneater - Arena: strings attached
Nancy Laurie is an heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune of her father, Bud Walton, and a number of companies compete with Wal-Mart's financial interests.
According to the contract Bill and his wife, Nancy Laurie, have with the University of Missouri system, the pair has the right to oversee and approve construction changes, the naming of various parts of the arena and the arena itself and the advertising within it.
The Lauries will also receive a private, 780 square-foot luxury suite with free catering and other services, six seats to every event held at the new arena and an additional suite for eight arena events each year.
www.themaneater.com /article.php?id=12537

  
 CNN/SI - NBA Basketball - St. Louisans ready for NBA team - Thursday September 23, 1999 07:25 PM
Laurie was coy about his plans, saying only that his focus is on improving a team that went 8-42 during the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season.
Billionaire Bill Laurie's announcement Thursday that he was buying the National Basketball Association's Vancouver Grizzlies quickly led to speculation that he would move the franchise to St. Louis.
Laurie and his family live in Columbia, Mo., just 120 miles west of St. Louis.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/nba/news/1999/09/23/stlouis_move_ap

  
 Blues, Kiel Center sold for $100 million
 Nancy Walton Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, who with his late brother Sam co-founded Wal-Mart.
 Bill and Nancy Laurie bought the NHL team and the 5-year-old arena from Clark Enterprises, a group of 19 prominent local businessmen who were tired of pumping money into the enterprise.
No problems are anticipated, since the Lauries had been tentatively approved for a previous purchase.
slam.canoe.ca /HockeyStLouisArchive/sep7_wal.html

  
 The World
He is survived by his wife; two children, Joanne Walton and her husband, Jon Reiser, of Burke, Va.; and Laurie (Walton) Kennedy and her husband, Joseph, of Plainfield; a sister, Nancy (Walton) Fleming and her husband, Benny, of Lebanon, N.H.; and three grandchildren.
La Perle, Nancy Alice (Hill), 61, of Winter Haven, Fla., and formerly of Montpelier, died Jan. 20, of natural causes at Tandem Health Care at Lake Parker in Lakeland, Fla. She was born July 5, 1943, in Montpelier, daughter of Eri John and Irene Garrett Hill.
Walton and his family lived in Philadelphia, Pa.; New Jersey; Pensacola, Fla.; and El Toro, Calif. After leaving the Marine Corps, he returned to the Lebanon area before moving to southern New Hampshire.
www.vt-world.com /Archive/2005/January_26_2005/Obits.htm

  
 Isaac Walton Report
Isaac Baker (Dr)4 Walton (William (Son of Isaac)3, Isaac2, William1) was born 02 December 1826 in Sumner County, Tennessee (Source: Anne Sandifer Trickett letter), and died Aft 1880 in Chatham County, Tennessee (Source: calculated from census data).
Walton received his medical education at the Louisville Medical College in Louisville, Ky., and opened his first office at Clarksville, Ark., but on account of ill health, caused by too close application to his work, he began to seek a location where he could find relief.
John B Walton is entitled to one 5th part of the before mentioned account of sales after deducting $582.48 agreeable to the articles of Copartnership of Isaac Walton and Jno B. Walton.
members.aol.com /cwmoretti/family/page21.htm

  
 SLAM! Hockey
Nancy Walton Laurie is an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune.
The Lauries, who were rebuffed in their attempt to buy the NHL's Colorado Avalanche and the NBA's Denver Nuggets last March, announced details of the purchase at a news conference this afternoon at the Kiel Center.
Bill Laurie said today that operations of the Blues and the arena will continue normally during the ownership transition and that management staffs of both entities will remain in place.
www.canoe.ca /StatsHKN/BC-HKN-LGNS-BLUESSALE-R.html

  
 The 1996 SLATE 60The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1996.  Compiled by Ann Castle
Laurie and his wife NANCY are both fans of college basketball, and became aware of the university's need for a new arena while traveling to "away" games and seeing the modern facilities on other campuses.
WILLIAM LAURIE -- $10 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI for a new basketball arena from this former high-school basketball coach, who breeds and trains horses and is married to the daughter of Wal-Mart co-founder James "Bud" Walton.
Laurie's only stipulation on the gift is that students be better accommodated--that is, that they be given access to more and better seats.
slate.msn.com /id/2058435

  
 Phog Blog » The Post is Toast! NY Fishwrap gets scooped by bloggers…
Laurie, 50, is the daughter of Bud Walton, a co-founder of Wal-Mart.
… Paige Laurie is a granddaughter of one of the founders of Wal-Mart.
The Lauries’ donation, which will go to help build a new basketball arena, was announced in 2000 as a pledge from an anonymous donor.
phogblog.com /?p=97

  
 CNN/SI - Basketball - Ascent to sell Nuggets, Avs, Pepsi Center to Lauries - Monday April 26, 1999 03:16 PM
Laurie, a former standout basketball player at Memphis State, met Nancy Walton while the two attended high school in Versailles, Mo. They own Crown Center Farms in Columbia, Mo., which raises quarter horses and Appaloosas.
Posted: Monday April 26, 1999 03:16 PM DENVER (AP) -- Ascent Entertainment Group Inc. has agreed to sell the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and the teams' future home, the Pepsi Center, to a partnership controlled by Bill Laurie and his wife, Wal-Mart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie of Columbia, Mo.
Laurie said his group is looking forward to "bringing more championships to the Rocky Mountain West and to becoming valued friends of the Colorado community."
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/news/1999/04/26/ascent_nuggest_avalanche

  
 NapaNews.com Wal-Mart heiress's name removed from sports arena
The move comes months after billionaires Bill and Nancy Laurie angered Mizzou fans, students and alumni by announcing their plan to name the arena after their daughter, who did not attend Missouri.
Elizabeth Paige Laurie's parents have agreed to allow the school to rename the $75 million Paige Sports Arena, which was built with a donation from the Lauries and opened three weeks ago, the university said Tuesday.
Paige Laurie has denied repeated requests for interviews since the announcement in March that the arena was being named for her.
www.napanews.com /templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=1500329E-D8D1-4FF0-BF13-F68050443557

  
 List of billionaires - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
# Alice Walton - USA - $20.0 billion (she and the next five hold essentially equal shares of Wal-Mart)
# Helen Walton - USA - $20.0 billion
# Jim Walton - USA - $20.0 billion
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /list_of_billionaires.htm

  
 Lauries give up Paige name rights - Columbia Missourian
Bill and Nancy Walton Laurie contributed $25 million — the largest amount given toward the Missouri athletic department — for the construction of the $75 million stadium.
“We are deeply grateful to the Laurie family for their longtime support of MU in academics and athletics,” MU Chancellor Brady Deaton said in a press release.
The announcement came four days after ABC’s “20/20” aired a segment called “Big Cheats on Campus” in which a former roommate of the Lauries’ daughterat USC alleged that Paige Laurie had paid her $20,000 over a three-year period to do her coursework.
www.digmo.com /news/story.php?ID=10807

  
 MU pulls plug on eBay sale of arena signs LJWorld.com
Nancy Laurie's father, the late Bud Walton, co-founded Wal-Mart with his brother Sam.
The new $75 million arena opened this year bearing the name of Elizabeth Paige Laurie, a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress whose parents, Bill and Nancy Laurie, received naming rights to the building as part of their $25 million donation toward the project.
Paige Laurie, 22, did not attend Missouri; she graduated this year from the University of Southern California.
www.ljworld.com /section/business/storypr/190090

  
 KSDK NewsChannel 5 - Where The News Comes First
Paige Laurie's mother is Nancy Walton Laurie, the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.
According to ABC News, Laurie paid her roommate to do homework and to write papers that Laurie turned in as her own efforts.
The Laurie family issued a one-sentence statement to ABC News, calling Paige's college record a private matter.
www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=70359

  
 Nancy Walton Laurie's Cedar Lake Ensemble Makes Its St. Louis Debut at Touhill Performing Arts Center for Limited Engagement
According to the ballet company’s founder, Nancy Walton Laurie, as well as the news media, the vibrant new ensemble merges classical and contemporary ballet with powerful multimedia theatrics.
Formed in September 2002 by Laurie, Cedar Lake Ensemble is a rare for-profit organization offering company member’s full benefits and 52 weeks of employment.
Cedar Lake Ensemble performers are not only trained in classical ballet and contemporary styles, they are also required to take acting and scene study classes weekly to enhance their talent.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/5/emw239586.htm

  
 KSDK NewsChannel 5 - Where The News Comes First
John Walton was the cousin of Nancy Walton Laurie, whose family owns the St. Louis Blues hockey team.
Nancy and Bill Laurie live in Columbia, Missouri.
Walton was piloting the ultralight that crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, the company said.
www.ksdk.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=81176

  
 riverfronttimes.com News GO AHEAD, BILL, DOUBLE DOWN 1999-09-15
Last week, Bill and Nancy Laurie were described in this space as son-in-law and daughter to Sam Walton.
Laurie is the late Sam's niece and the daughter of Bud Walton.
To get an idea of how much moolah that is, if Bill Laurie went to the blackjack table and met the $500 loss limit every day, it would take him 5,479 years to blow all his cash.
www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/1999-09-15/shortcuts4.html

  
 CBS News Elway To Bid On Avs & Nuggets December 13, 1999 05:19:13
Ascent, a publicly held corporation based in Denver, agreed in March to sell the Nuggets, the Avalanche and the Pepsi Center to Bill Laurie and Wal-Mart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie for $400 million.
Borgen and Gillett have sued the Lauries, claiming that they had an agreement to buy the Avalanche from the couple once their deal with Ascent was done and that the Lauries reneged on a promise to sell them the team for $80 million.
The parties to the lawsuits, including the Lauries, agreed to set aside the sale and establish an "auction" process for the assets.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/07/20/archive/main55145.shtml

  
 Dancer Fired; AGMA Complains
He added it is "apparently owned by its sole benefactor, Nancy Walton Laurie, an heir to the Wal-Mart empire." Its executive director is Laurie's personal attorney, Brent Karasiuk, who is also the CEO and general counsel of Paige Sports Entertainment, owned by Laurie's husband, Bill.
Gordon's letter said that in the fall of 2003, several of the ensemble's dancers asked for AGMA's help "in seeking relief from the restrictive regulations and draconian rules imposed upon them as conditions of their continued employment by Jen Ballard, the artistic director of the company, and to improve their wages and working conditions.
In the April 1 letter to Celeste Mattina, Region 2 regional director of the NLRB in New York City, AGMA National Executive Director Alan Gordon described the ensemble as "a new, relatively small dance company" based and performing in New York City.
www.backstage.com /backstage/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000489250

  
 Wal Mart
Sam Waltons vision was simple: he sought to bring great value through aggressive discounting to customers, he sought to ensure great service by ensuring that staff or associates were empowered to make decisions, and he thought strategically about store location.
Sam Waltons familys holdings in Wal-Mart if combined would comprise the nations largest fortune, at $100 billion combined they are significantly ahead of Bill Gates.
In the fiscal year ending January 31, 2004, Wal-Mart had $256.3 billion in sales and net income of $8.9 billion (a 3.5% profit margin).
read-and-go.hopto.org /Wal-Mart

  
 Audrey J. Walton GRAT Case
Petitioner's daughter Ann Walton Kroenke was the beneficiary so named under one trust instrument; petitioner's daughter Nancy Walton Laurie was named in the other.
Each trust was irrevocable, prohibited additional contributions, specified that the grantor's interest was not subject to commutation, and mandated that no payment be made during the trust term to any person other than the grantor or the grantor's estate.
Upon completion of the 2-year trust term, the remaining balance was to be distributed to the designated remainder beneficiary.
www.brentmark.com /gratcase.htm

  
 Kroenke's wife retains part of sports interests - 2000-07-24
Kroenke's sister Nancy Walton Laurie and her husband Bill Laurie, also of Missouri, tried to buy Ascent's teams last year for $400 million.
Yet another family member, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton's son and current Wal-Mart Corp. chairman S. Robson Walton of Bentonville, Ark., was recently named the 7th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes.
She belongs to the hugely wealthy Walton family that runs one of the world's largest retail companies, the Wal-Mart discount store chain.
www.bizjournals.com /denver/stories/2000/07/24/story4.html

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