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Michigan Center, which houses the Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute in downtown Muskegon. He also sought to foster economic development in the Muskegon area as chairman of the "New Muskegon" economic recovery campaign in the 1980s. Upon Schalon's
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Michigan university. Schalon provided major support for Grand Valley’s Seymour and Esther Padnos College of Engineering and Computing. The Mr. and Mrs. Edward I. Schalon Plastics and Metal Forming Lab was named in honor of Schalon and his wife.
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President Haas said: "Ed Schalon made a mark on Muskegon, and his family made a mark on Grand Valley. His leadership helped strengthen Grand Valley's regional perspective, and he was very supportive of our efforts in engineering and with the Lake Michigan Center in Muskegon."
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