William Kozyra, center, is honored for his contributions to Notre Dame in a special ceremony on September 25, 2015, before the Irish played Loyola in a varsity football game. Among family and friends on hand at the ceremony were Kozyra’s wife, Melissa, his daughter, Lauren ’05 (NDP), and son, Bill ’03 (NDP).
In remarks during the ceremony, Notre Dame Vice President Andy Guest said the school was grateful for Kozyra’s dedication to Notre Dame and its students.
“Earlier this year,” Guest said, “we initiated an aggressive project to re-carpet the field we are now standing on. Bill graciously agreed to underwrite a major portion of the funding, making the new field you see tonight possible for the thousands of students who compete on it on an almost daily basis, and for those who will compete here well into the future.”
While Kozyra’s family looked on, senior captains of the Fighting Irish football team presented Kozyra with a specially designed, hand-framed photo of the newly carpeted field.
NDPMA President Fr. Leon Olszamowski, s.m., said he was eternally grateful to “Bill Kozyra, to whom this Alumni Field was originally dedicated several years ago.”
Athletic Director Betty Wroubel added that she is continually amazed by the generosity of members of the Notre Dame community to make improvements like the field turf happen. “The benefits and impact on our student body cannot be measured.”
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