**PRESS RELEASE**

For Immediate Release:
Friday, January 13, 2006

Contact:
Matt Losak, 301-431-5453

ANGELOS DONATES $1 MILLION TO SUPPORT EXPANSION OF NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE

Silver Spring, Md.-Legendary labor lawyer, Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Baltimore Orioles Peter G. Angelos has donated $1 million dollars to the National Labor College to support education programs for working families and the modernization of the college’s facilities. The NLC will complete its newest state-of the art learning facility, the Lane Kirkland Center, this summer. Angelos is also an NLC Trustee.

“Peter is someone who has never forgotten his own roots in the labor movement,” said NLC board chair and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. “His father, John Angelos, was a steelworker, and Peter has remained a great friend to workers and to unions throughout his own life and distinguished career.”

Mr. Angelos serves as a member of the board for a number of colleges, hospitals, and civic organizations and has been widely honored for his commitment to higher education and civic causes.

“Peter Angelos’s gift helps us continue our important work of educating workers to meet the growing challenges they face in a modern economy,” said Susan J. Schurman, NLC president. “Increased global competition, more complex jobs and stiff pressure from corporate leadership make higher education essential for workers today. Thanks to Peter’s gift, our work continues.”

Established as a training center by AFL-CIO in 1969 to strengthen union member education and organizing skills, the NLC is now the only accredited college in the world devoted exclusively to educating union members as well as their family members. The college is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an independent, regional accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

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