Messenger - Vol. 3, No. 2, Page 7 Winter 1994 New employees join development office staff The University of Delaware's Development Office has added three new employees to assist with fund-raising activities, to enhance interaction with corporations and foundations and to work on special projects for the College of Business and Economics. Now on board are James J. Dawson, director of major gifts; Elizabeth E. Neary, director of corporate and foundation relations; and William J. Stout, Delaware '57, director of development for the College of Business and Economics. Dawson was most recently employed as director of will and trust programs at Virginia Tech, where he was responsible for all aspects of a comprehensive planned giving program. He is a former headmaster of the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md., and former treasurer and secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J. He also worked as a lawyer for five years in Baltimore. At Delaware, Dawson is responsible for the development of a comprehensive program of identification, cultivation and solicitation of prospective individual donors and the supervision of a national screening program, capital projects and regional campaign efforts. Neary is former director of corporate and foundations relations for Syracuse University, where she managed identification, cultivation and solicitation of corporations and foundations for the colleges of Arts and Science, Nursing, Human Development and Architecture, as well as for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. There, she played a key role in the planning and execution of Syracuse's recent $160 million capital campaign. Previously, she was director of corporate and foundation relations for the development office at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she secured more than $1 million in gifts. She has also been employed as the coordinator of corporate and foundation support for St. Lawrence University, where she worked on a $20 million campaign. Neary is responsible for a University-wide program of corporate and foundation relations focused on securing gifts and commitments in support of institutional programs and projects. Stout comes to the University from Ketchum Inc., where he worked on development plans for a variety of institutions, including Montreat Conference Center of the Presbyterian Church, USA, the Air Force Association of Arlington, Va., Morgan State University, Elizabeth City State University and Winston-Salem State University. Stout spent the first half of his career in industry, working for Sun Co. Inc. in a variety of positions, such as business manager and assistant to the president of SunOlin. At the University, he is responsible for the development of prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship for the College of Business and Economics. -Beth Thomas