Even though they each graduated in the top 10 percent of their respective graduating classes in Syracuse University’s College of Law, Robert Emmet Dineen and Carolyn Bareham Dineen, both faced major challenges in their paths to establishing law careers.
Undeterred, they relied on their education, sheer tenacity and each other in building exceptional careers as lawyers and as respected members of the communities in which they lived and worked.
To honor their parents’ impressive legacy, their three children, the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, Kathryn Dineen Wriston and Robert E. Dineen Jr., all prominent attorneys in their own right, have pledged a naming gift of $15 million for the construction of a new building for the Syracuse University College of Law. The Dineen family gift is the lead gift in a fundraising campaign the University is launching for the new building. It is the largest gift in the history of the College of Law, one of the largest gifts in University history, and an important milestone in the University’s current $1 billion capital campaign—of which a new Law School building has been a priority.
The new building is expected to cost between $85 million to $90 million and total approximately 200,000 square feet. The building will be constructed on a site immediately west of the college’s current buildings, E.I. White Hall and Winifred MacNaughton Hall, located on the SU campus’s western edge.
The Dineen family gift to the College of Law supports one of the five priorities of The Campaign for Syracuse University—building futures. This campaign priority provides funding for infrastructure improvements—critical in today’s ever-changing world—that will enhance SU’s teaching and research facilities and provide state-of-the-art technology, whether on campus, at its regional centers in New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., or in its study centers abroad. With a goal of $1 billion, The Campaign for Syracuse University is the most ambitious fundraising effort in SU’s history. More information about the campaign is available online at http://campaign.syr.edu.
