When you are speeding toward billionaire status, nothing says "I've arrived" more loudly than a big dona-tion to one's alma mater, In June 2014 Duke University announced that J. Michael Pearson, the CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, one of the fastest-growing companies in America, and his wife, Christine, would be making a $30 million gift to its engineering school, on top of $23 million in earlier gifts that had resulted in renaming Duke's nursing school building after her. "We're grateful the Pearsons share our vision," Laurie Patton, former dean of Duke's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, said in a release that recognized the husband and wife as some of the school's most prominent alums, as well as the fourth-largest contributors to its capital campaign.
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机译：当您迈向亿万富翁身份时，没有什么比向母校捐款大声说“我到了”，杜克大学于2014年6月宣布，Valeant Pharmaceuticals的首席执行官J. Michael Pearson是其中一位。美国发展最快的公司，以及他的妻子克里斯汀（Christine），将向其工程学校捐赠3000万美元，此外还有2300万美元的早期捐赠，这些捐赠使杜克的护士学校大楼改名。杜克大学三一艺术与科学学院前院长劳里·帕顿（Laurie Patton）在一份新闻稿中说：“我们很感谢皮尔逊一家人的愿景。”该书承认丈夫和妻子是该校最杰出的校友之一，也是第四位校友。 -其资本运动的最大贡献者。
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