Cleary University, ITC Holdings partnership highlights Secunda Museum with gift; WJR live broadcast May 4

Cleary Univesity’s partnership with ITC Holdings is creating some special energy in Livingston County.

ITC Holdings recently presented the Cleary University Board of Trustees with a check for $10,000 to support the Arthur Secunda Museum. More buzz is being created by ITC’s sponsorship of the WJR’s Pure Michigan Tour, which will bring Paul W. Smith to Cleary for a live broadcast from the museum Monday, May 4 from 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. The broadcast, which is open to the public, will take place in the Chrysler Building.

“We certainly consider Cleary University to be Pure Michigan and are excited to share our story with WJR and Paul W. Smith’s audience,” said Tom Sullivan, president of Cleary University. “We are very fortunate to have ITC Holdings as one of our Strategic Business Partners. They are very supportive of everything we are doing here at the University.”

ITC Holdings Corp. is the nation’s largest independent electricity transmission company. ITC invests in the electric transmission grid to improve system reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy and allow new generating resources to interconnect to ITC transmission systems. ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission facilities in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.

“ITC has been a consistent supporter of events at Cleary University such as the LEC speaker luncheons and our annual alumni scholarship auctions. This gift of money is a significant expression of their support for the arts,” said Grace Farley, program director for the museum. “And with nearly 1,000,000 weekly listeners throughout the Midwest, the Paul W. Smith broadcast will further our vision of becoming known as the pre-eminent collection of the work of Arthur Secunda and other accomplished Michigan artists.”

“There are only a few of these types of museums that feature a lifetime of work by one artist. This is a great honor to Arthur, to Livingston county, and to the state of Michigan to have this collection here,” said Farley. There are more than 300 pieces of Secunda’s art on display at our Livingston campus.”