In appreciation of his gift, the facility will be known as Secchia Stadium.

The College of Human Medicine has recently gained attention for its expansion into the Grand Rapids area, with the new Secchia Center completed in the Fall of 2010, that is expected to fuel the growing medical industry in that region.

Secchia was on the national advisory committee of the 1988 George Bush for President Committee.

Secchia also founded the Lake Michigan Conference, and was a National Co-Chair of the Dole for President Campaign.

Secchia was honored in 1994 as the Master Entrepreneur of the Year for Michigan and in 1995 as the Businessman of the Year and has been involved with civic organizations promoting economics and assisting underprivileged youth.

He was awarded the NIAF Special Achievement Award for International Affairs, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Public Service Award, and lent his name to the The Founding Values Initiative Award ... the " Secchia Award for Heartfelt Commitment.

In September 2010, Secchia made a $ 1 million outright donation to his alma mater, Michigan State University, to be used to build a new stadium for the women's ' softball team.

The new 8-story building of the MSU College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids campus was named after Peter Secchia for his generous donation to the university.

The river was called Sicla or Secia in Latin, and in Italian it is a masculine noun for the natives of Reggio Emilia ( il Secchia ) and a feminine one to the natives of Modena ( la Secchia ).

MSU Secchia Center

Famous MSU alumni include former Michigan governors James Blanchard and John Engler, U. S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Tim Johnson, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil Donna Hrinak, former Jordan Prime Minister Adnan Badran, billionaire philanthropists Tom Gores and Eli Broad, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Wallace B. Jefferson, trial lawyer Geoffrey Feiger, former Food and Drug Administration official Peter Rheinstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, Quicken Loans founder and Cleveland Cavaliers owner and billionaire Dan Gilbert, Sergeant at Arms of the U. S. House of Representatives Wilson Livingood, former Michigan U. S. Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, former Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Harry Moniba, and former U. S. Ambassador to Italy Peter Secchia.

Secchia served in the United States Marine Corps from 1956 to 1959 and graduated from Michigan State University in 1963 with a degree in economics.

Secchia is a fund-raiser in the Republican Party in Michigan.

In 1994 he was appointed to chair the Secchia Commission I by Governor John Engler of Michigan which was focused on improving government services.

Secchia is on the Executive Committee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation and is the overseer of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids and Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is the past chairman of the library's Endowment Committee and Strategic Planning Committee.

After two months of inaction, during which the armies faced each other across the Secchia River, Königsegg on September 15 took advantage of lax security and executed a raid on Coigny's headquarters, very nearly capturing Coigny and taking among other prizes Charles Emmanuel's china.

Modena lies on the Pianura Padana, and is bounded by the two rivers Secchia and Panaro, both affluents of the Po River.

The Camerino dei Confirmati (" Chamber of the Confirmed ") houses one of the symbols of the city, the Secchia Rapita, a bucket kept in memory of the victorious Battle of Zappolino ( 1325 ) against Bologna.

* Peter F. Secchia, former U. S. Ambassador to Italy

A famous episode was his narrow personal escape when his quarters on the Secchia ( battle of Quistello ) were raided by the enemy on the night of 14 September 1734.

It is one of the four main right-bank tributaries of the river Po, the other three being the Tanaro, the Secchia and the Panaro.

Peter F. Secchia, ( born April 15, 1937 in Englewood, New Jersey ) is an Italian-American diplomat and businessman.

Secchia served as the United States Ambassador to Italy from 1989 to 1993.

This is likely to be because this period provides good evidence of naming practices of the best documented class in the best documented Roman period.

This is simply a matter of the pragmatics of naming, and of whether a naming convention provides identifiers that are unique ; and this depends on the scope given by context.

Xu Song ( 许嵩, Xǔ Sōng ) in Tang Dynasty wrote a book, Jiankang Shilu ( 建康实录, Jiànkāng Shílù ), that provides a historical account of Jiankang, which gave rise to this scheme of naming.

Terry-Thomas's dental diastema ( gap between teeth ) provides the basis for naming a widening of the scapholunate space (" Terry-Thomas sign ") in a traumatic wrist injury.

Toole provides comical descriptions of two of the films Ignatius watches without naming them ; they can be recognized as Billy Rose's Jumbo and That Touch of Mink, both Doris Day features released in 1962.

Christa Wolf provides another degraded future for the character in Cassandra by once more naming her Briseis and including the Homeric story of her slavery to Achilles and Agamemnon.

A name suffix, in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person's full name and provides additional information about the person.

In addition to naming the two composers as " the best composers of organum ," and specifying that they compiled the big book of organum known as the Magnus Liber Organi, he provides a few tantalizing bits of information on the music and the principles involved in its composition.

Another mediaeval Hebrew compilation, the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, aside from quoting Yosippon as above, also provides a separate tradition of Tiras ' sons elsewhere, naming them as Maakh, Tabel, Bal ’ anah, Shampla, Meah, and Elash.

On March 9, 2007, Time Warner Cable, which provides service to the local area, signed a 10-year naming rights deal.

The naming and design rules for NIEM are documented in the NIEM NDR, which specifies the data model, XML components, and XML data for use with NIEM and provides a basis for NIEM conformance.

NIEM is based on several concepts from the International Organisation for Standardisation ( ISO ) 11179, which provides guidelines for the naming and definition of data elements, as well as information about the metadata captured about data elements.

Le Petit was listed by Pierre Moulu in his famous motet Mater floreat florescat as one of the leading composers of the day ( this work, probably written around 1517, provides to musicologists a particularly useful list of composers working at the time, naming the composers associated with the French royal chapel which Moulu thought the most eloquent of the time ).

He is listed as member of the Leadership Council of the conservative Club for Growth which funds Tea Party and other Republican candidates and provides advertising and policy promotions for Republicans without naming a specific candidate through its 527 operations.

The article reflects the writer's appreciation of a city that provides its residents with both " the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy ," and concludes with a dark note touching upon the forces that may destroy the city that the writer loves.

Lastly, he provides receipt of both Epaphroditus ' heroism ( 3. 25-30 ) and the arrival of " the gift " ( 4. 10 ), along with his promise of a divine accounting ( 4. 17-20 ).

Charles Winchester ( David Ogden Stiers ) provides him with the sheet music for Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, tells him Wittgenstein's story, and encourages him not to abandon his musical gift.

A number of communications and intellectual property experts such as Henry Jenkins and Lawrence Lessig have described file-sharing as a form of gift exchange which provides numerous benefits to artists and consumers alike.

The donor provides a " gift of life " to those in need, without knowing who those people are.

The Herbert D. Doan Midland County History Center houses a research library, gift shop and the interactive Dorothy Dow Arbury Midland County History Gallery, which provides hands on exhibits for exploring Midland County's history.

After setting out a list of individual grievances and statutes that had been broken, the Petition of Right declares that Englishmen have various " rights and liberties ", and provides that no person should be forced to provide a gift, loan or tax without an Act of Parliament, that no free individual should be imprisoned or detained unless a cause has been shown, and that soldiers or members of the Royal Navy should not be billeted in private houses without the free consent of the owner.

It also provides that in the absence of such a document, a surviving spouse, or if there is no spouse, a list of specific relatives in order of preference, can make the gift.

The terminal also provides additional services for travelers and visitors, such as access to shopping facilities, domestic and international calls, taxi services, ATMs, restaurants and fast food restaurants and numerous book and gift shops.

BBG has two gift shops, a Visitor Center, and a Gardener's Resource Center which provides reference services to home gardeners, staff, and the professional horticultural community.

Petit Jean has a visitor center and gift shop in the center of the park and a boathouse at Lake Bailey that provides boat rentals, fishing supplies, and a snack bar.

Angel Tree provides an opportunity to connect with those families through a variety of year-round ministry opportunities, including mentoring and summer camps, with an emphasis on Christmastime gift giving.

The National Trust visitors ' centre provides both a cafeteria and gift shop and the panoramic views of the western Weald may be enjoyed from the North Downs Way, a long distance footpath that runs along the southern escarpment.

Black Mountain Tower provides vital communication facilities for Canberra along with both indoor and outdoor observation decks, a café and a gift shop as well as the revolving Alto Tower Restaurant.

A road ( NM 536 ) from the east provides access to the bottom of the ski area and also to the Sandia Crest itself, where there is a gift shop, restaurant, scenic overlook, and a large electronic communication site with numerous towers and antennas.

Sellers use these websites because the gift card is not to a store of their liking, and buyers because this provides opportunities to buy these cards for less than they are nominally worth at the business.

If madness is all bad, then the preceding speeches would have been correct, but in actuality, madness given as a gift of the gods provides us with some of the best things we have. There are, in fact, several kinds of divine madness, of which he cites four examples:

It may contain nourishment for the female, in which case it is called a nuptial gift, although in many species the " gift " provides little nutrient value ( one group in which it usually is nutritious are the bush crickets ).

It thanks God for the gift of the Torah, which provides life.

The summit provides panoramic views across Adelaide, and a cafe-restaurant and gift shop.

Melisande's patron gift provides Phèdre enough money to complete her marque.

The museum is open during the summer season, provides tours of the light tower, and has a small gift shop.