UDMessenger

Volume 13, Number 4, 2005

Campaign highlights

 1997

  • Quiet phase of The Campaign for Delaware begins.

  • $17.5 million gift is received from alumnus and trustee Robert W. Gore, ’59, alumna Sarah I. Gore, ’76M and Genevieve W. Gore, who died in 2005 at the age of 91. UD announces that this gift—one of the most significant in the history of the University— will support construction of a new classroom building on the University’s Green, Gore Hall.

  • Chaplin and Elizabeth Tyler donate $3 million in support of the College of Business and Economics.  Mr. Tyler, a retired DuPont Co. researcher, died in 2004 at the age of 105.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Spivey Jr. establish charitable remainder trust for $1 million to support the Academy of Lifelong Learning.

  • UD receives nearly $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Art Conservation.

  • MBNA America Bank pledges $2.5 million for a Wilmington center.

  • Jane L. Stradley ’43 establishes a $1 million charitable remainder trust to establish scholarship fund.

 1998

  • Fred ’63 and Madeleine Rullo commit $1 million to help build a new artifical turf stadium.

  • The Longwood Foundation commits $10 million to the expansion and renovation of P. S. du Pont Hall.

  • The W.M. Keck Foundation gives the College of Engineering $1 million for an electron microscope in Colburn Laboratory.

  • Public announcement of The Campaign for Delaware is made; $86 million raised to date.

  • Eleanor C. Paradee names the University as the beneficiary of a charitable remainder trust and deeds a farm to the University, both gifts to benefit the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.  The W. Charles Sr. and Eleanor Clement Paradee Center in Dover is named in their honor.

  • Crystal Trust commits $2 million to help fund the expansion and renovation of P. S. du Pont Hall.

  • The Edgar S. Woolard Chair, named for former CEO and Chairman of the DuPont Co., is created with $1 million in gifts from friends and colleagues.

  • Robert L. Richards Jr., ’50 and Joyce Hilty Richards,’51, with an initial gift of $100,000, establish the Joyce Hilty and Robert L. Richards Jr. Fellowship at UD, which provides living expenses for an engineering graduate student who is married.

  • The University of Delaware Alumni Association commits $1.3 million to support a merit-based scholarship program at UD with preference given to children of alumni.  Recipients are named Alumni Scholars and are chosen from the same pool of candidates for the highly competitive DuPont Scholars.

  • UD exceeds $100 million in Campaign for Delaware fund-raising.

 1999

  • UD receives $10.4 million from the estate of Ann Nields Garstin for scholarships and study abroad. Mrs. Garstin participated in UD’s Junior Year Abroad in 1929, while a student at Sarah Lawrence College.

  • UD receives in excess of $2.5 million from the estate of William du Pont Jr.

  • The Louis Redding Chair, a $1 million endowed chair in the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy, is created to honor the civil rights pioneer from Wilmington.

  • The Bruce L. and Sandra M. Hammonds Professorship is funded through a $250,000 gift from Sandy ’87 and Bruce L. Hammonds. The professorship is designed to improve the quality of professional teacher education.

  • UD receives in excess of $3 million from the estate of Melva B. Guthrie to support the Morris Library.

  • Professor Don Puglisi pledges $1.25 million to the College of Business and Economics for faculty and student support.

  • The Unidel Foundation pledges $10 million for faculty chairs.

 2000

  • MBNA America pledges $25 million for scholarships ($15 million), the College of Business and Economics ($5 million), the Delaware Center for Teacher Education ($2 million) and a new Career Services Center ($3 million).

  • The Campaign for Delaware fund-raising totals exceed $200 million.

  • The DuPont Co. pledges $2.5 million for the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.

  • Edward G. and Naomi L. “Wunnie” Jefferson make a gift of the Jefferson Pipe Organ, which is housed in the Edward G. and Naomi L. Jefferson Music Gallery of Bayard Sharp Hall.

  • The James R. Soles Citizenship Endowment is established to honor Alumni Distinguished Prof. of Political Science and International Relations Jim Soles.  The endowment is created with gifts and pledges in excess of $350,000.

  • UD receives close to $7 million from Edward Rosenberg ’29 ’30M, and his wife, Elizabeth. Mrs. Rosenberg’s gift is to art conservation, and Dr. Rosenberg’s is used to establish professorships.

  • UD exceeds The Campaign for Delaware goal of $225 million.

  • UD receives close to $2 million from a trust established by alumnus Howard L. Robertson Sr., ’31, to establish two memorial scholarship funds—the Howard L. Robertson Sr. and the J. Jesse Selinkoff Memorial Scholarship Fund for students pursuing studies in civil engineering or pre-medicine.

2001

  • Paul R. Jones, ’04 Hon, of Atlanta donates his collection of works by African-American artists to UD.

  • The Hon. Elbert N. Carvel, ’86 Hon, and his wife, Ann, commit $2 million to help build a new research and education center in Georgetown. Former Gov. Carvel died in 2005 at the age of 94.

  • ARAMARK commits $2.75 million to endow a chair in the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management, for capital improvements and for undergraduate scholarships.

  • The William L. Friend Professorship in the Department of Chemical Engineering is established by alumnus Bill Friend, ’58M, with a gift of $350,000. 

  • The MBNA Foundation gives $1 million for the Polly Russell Dowling Fellowship Endowment, benefiting students in the Professional Theatre Training Program.

  • The Sharp Foundation contributes $1 million to the College of Marine Studies.

 2002

  • The Campaign for Delaware fund-raising total exceeds $300 million.

  • John and Sue Ann Weinberg commit $2 million to endow the Center for Corporate Governance in the College of Business and Economics.

  • The MBNA Foundation commits $20 million to name the College of Business and Economics in memory of Alfred Lerner.

  • Alumna Wilhelmina Press Thompson, ’41, ’57M, leaves UD in excess of $4.3 million in her will in support of capital needs.

  • The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation awards $600,000 to the University of Delaware Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management to establish the Marriott Center for Hospitality and Tourism.

  • Dr. Sarah Jastak-Burgess, ’54M, ’63PhD, and Leslie M. Burgess donate works of art to the University’s Permanent Collection.

 2004

  • Willard Hackerman, of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., commits $1 million to the Center for the Arts.

  • The Unidel Foundation commits $10 million to the Center for the Arts.

  • Alumna Mary Smith Morris, ’35, leaves approximately $3.5 million in unrestricted funds to UD in her will.

  • Alumna Dr. Jeanne Buxbaum, ’74M, leaves a bequest of approximately $4.1 million to the College of Health Sciences for an endowed chair and an endowed scholarship fund.

  • With a gift of $300,000 from Gerard Mangone, University Research Professor of International and Maritime Law, the Center for Marine Policy is named the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy.

  • The Campaign for Delaware fund-raising total exceeds $400 million.

  • The 100th named professorship is endowed by Kathleen and David Hollowell to support a position in the Department of Mathematical Sciences focusing on secondary school math education. Kathleen Hollowell is director of the University’s Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center, and David Hollowell is UD executive vice president and University treasurer.

  • Lanny and Michelle Edelsohn establish the Robert Edelsohn Chair in CHEP’s Department of Individual and Family Studies with gifts to the endowment in excess of $1 million. Michelle Edelsohn established Homes for Life, a foundation supporting developmentally challenged adults, and her husband is a Wilmington neurologist.

  • The University of Delaware Alumni Association pledges $500,000 to the Center for the Arts.

  • The Campaign for Delaware adds a “victory lap” to include a Center for the Arts located adjacent to Amy E. du Pont Music Building. To date, $29 million has been committed toward the $48 million project. As part of the fundraising effort, the University announces a matching funds program for UD employees and retirees, whereby gifts to the center are matched 2:1.

 2005

  • Alumna Edna Purnell, ’51, leaves approximately $2.4 million from her estate to UD to provide scholarship and fellowship support to students from Sussex County studying to become teachers.

  • The University receives a nearly $1 million unrestricted bequest from the estate of Edward L. Ratledge ’42

  • Total support from The Andrew Mellon Foundation to the Department of Art Conservation during The Campaign for Delaware reaches approximately $4.5 million.

  • During the course of The Campaign for Delaware, contributions from the UNIDEL Foundation are in excess of $50 million and those from MBNA Foundation are in excess of $43 million.

  • The Campaign for Delaware Gala Celebration is held to commemorate the success of the fund-raising effort.