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Generous Gifts from Alumni and Friends Patricia Anderson, a former elementary schoolteacher who died in September 2001 at the age of 86, left nearly $85,000 from her estate to establish an endowed scholarship fund for nontraditional students at UW-Eau Claire. Full story. Thomas Auth, North Oaks, Minn., $75,000 to create the Auth Foundation Communications Center/Accounting Lab. By day the facility provides accounting students access to the latest technologies they will encounter in the work force, and by night and on weekends it is the computerized calling center for the Foundation’s telemarketing program. Full story. William Bartlett Trust,
$20,000 to support the William Bartlett
Native American Collaborative Nursing Scholarship Fund. Since 1999,
the trust has contributed more than $50,000 to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation
for the scholarships for Native American students. Recipients have
been participants in the university’s collaborative nursing
program, in which individuals with R.N. degrees return to school to
earn B.S.N. degrees. Bernadette (Walsh) Byrne, a member of the first class to enter UW-Eau Claire (then the Eau Claire State Normal School) in 1916, left approximately $20,000 from her estate to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation. Byrne, who died March 7, 2003, at the age of 104, designated that the gift be used for faculty development at UW-Eau Claire. Full story. Junaid Chida, Scarsdale, N.Y., $25,000 to create an endowment that will enable students from Pakistan to attend UW-Eau Claire and obtain a degree. The Nazneen and Saleen Chida Memorial International Scholarship Endowment is the university’s first fund designated to help international students cover extraordinary expenses above and beyond standard tuition and fees — expenses that are often prohibitive for international students. Recipients of this scholarship will be encouraged to return to Pakistan to use their UW-Eau Claire education to benefit the country and to encourage others from Pakistan to pursue an education at UW-Eau Claire. Chida is a 1978 UW-Eau Claire accounting graduate. John and Helen Drawbert, Altoona, $75,000 to (1) support the high school sports medicine outreach program, an ongoing partnership between UW-Eau Claire’s athletic-training program, Chippewa Valley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and area high schools; (2) establish the Drawbert Blugold Fellowship, which annually will provide tuition support and a stipend to a first- or second-year UW-Eau Claire student who will assist a faculty member in research that will impact the quality of life in the Chippewa Valley; (3) support Blugold athletics; and (4) support the UW-Eau Claire Single Parent Scholarship Fund. Read more about the Drawberts and why they support UW-Eau Claire. Harry Egdahl, a former Eau Claire dentist who died Feb. 8, 2003, at the age of 107, left a $25,000 estate gift to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation to establish the Cassandra Ball Egdahl Scholarship for exceptional music students in memory of his first wife. Harry Egdahl practiced dentistry in Eau Claire for more than 70 years and retired when he was 97. Full story. Eau Claire Area Foundation, $3,500 to provide additional scholarship opportunities for single parent students at UW-Eau Claire. Support from the Single Parent Scholarship Fund gives opportunities for academic success to single parents who otherwise would not have the chance to earn a college degree, and it limits their postgraduation indebtedness (the average single-parent student has $4,607 in student loans for one school year). Extendicare Corp., Milwaukee, $30,000 for UW-Eau Claire's Center for Health and Aging Services Excellence (CHASE). The gift will help CHASE move forward with its initiatives to (1) expand and improve UW-Eau Claire's undergraduate health care administration program; (2) make a stronger commitment to undergraduate research; and (3) develop a graduate certificate program in health and aging services administration. Thomas and Jeannie Flesch, Columbus, Ohio, $50,000 to establish UW-Eau Claire's first endowed (permanently funded) Blugold Fellowship. The Blugold Fellowship program, the only one of its kind nationwide, facilitates students' introduction to research and provides them a mentoring relationship with a faculty member. Richard and Carol Fulwiler, Cincinnati, Ohio, $25,000 to strengthen UW-Eau Claire’s Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarship (WAES) program, which helps the university attract and retain the best and brightest students in Wisconsin. The Richard and Carol Fulwiler Wisconsin Academic Excellence Endowed Scholarship will provide one WAES award each year in perpetuity. The WAES program matches funds from the Wisconsin legislature with private resources to reward the state’s most academically talented students. Top graduates from each high school in Wisconsin automatically qualify for WAES awards, which can be renewed for up to four years. Richard Fulwiler is a 1961 UW-Eau Claire chemistry graduate. Phillip L. Graham Fund, Washington, D.C., $20,000 to increase the Ann Devroy Memorial Forum and the Ann Devroy Memorial Fund endowment. The additional funding will be used to encourage young journalists to enter UW-Eau Claire's journalism program and follow in the footsteps of Ann Devroy, a 1970 UW-Eau Claire graduate who was a White House correspondent for The Washington Post for more than 15 years. She died of cancer in 1997. Jon and Maureen Homstad, Eau Claire, $25,000 to enable UW-Eau Claire’s Leadership Institute to move forward with plans for expanded programming. The Leadership Institute has enhanced the leadership potential of more than 2,000 precollegiate and collegiate students since 1989. The Homstad's gift added momentum to an ongoing dollar-for-dollar match fund-raising effort for the Center for Leadership in the UW-Eau Claire College of Business, which offers numerous weeklong summer Leadership Institutes, undergraduate courses in leadership, and extension seminars and services to public and private corporations. David and Marilyn Karlgaard, Fairfax, Va., national campaign chairs, $4.5 million — the largest single contribution to UW-Eau Claire and the largest announced by a UW System regional university. The gift includes a $4 million trust, which ultimately will endow the programs the Karlgaards are funding outright with a $500,000 pledge. The computer science department is the beneficiary with the creation of the Karlgaard Excellence in Computer Science Program. Over the next five years, a portion of the grant will support excellence awards for computer science faculty, scholarships for computer science majors, and matching gifts against equipment or software or funds received for equipment or software from private industry partners or external grants. Full story. Kell Container Corp., Chippewa Falls, $120,000 to establish the Kell Container Corporation Blugold Football Opportunity Endowment. The endowment will provide a stable source of annual funding to supplement UW-Eau Claire’s existing football budget. Kerry and Daniel Kincaid, Eau Claire, $25,000 to support (1) the Kincaid Pre-Med Scholarship Fund, which will provide an annual scholarship to an outstanding pre-med student; (2) the salary of a student coordinator for UW-Eau Claire’s new Pre-med Mentoring/Shadowing Program, which will be offered in partnership with various Chippewa Valley medical entities; and (3) the Kerry Kincaid Fund for Political Science, which provides professional development funding for political science faculty. Kerry Kincaid graduated in 1993 and 1996 from UW-Eau Claire with degrees in political science and education. Jane and James Moore, Newport, R.I., $50,000 to (1) help fund the renovation of the School of Nursing's clinical simulation laboratory and the acquisition of a SimMan patient simulator and (2) support new gymnastics equipment purchases in advance of the 2003 Division III National Gymnastics Championships, which were held at UW-Eau Claire in March. Full story. Northwestern Bank, Chippewa Falls, $25,000 to endow the Northwestern Bank Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarship. The scholarship is part of a state program in which the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, through sponsors like Northwestern Bank, supplements state funds to provide $2,250 scholarships to top graduating students from Wisconsin high schools who enroll at UW-Eau Claire. The scholarships are renewable for up to four years. Ray Petkovsek, Madison, $10,000 to establish the endowed Ray Petkovsek Accounting Excellence Scholarship. The scholarship soon will be available to Wisconsin resident students pursuing an accounting degree at UW-Eau Claire with the intention of taking the CPA exam immediately upon graduation. Petkovsek, a CPA, is a 1973 UW-Eau Claire accounting graduate. L.E. Phillips Family Foundation, Eau Claire, $114,000 to support (1) the Eileen Phillips Cohen Scholarships, which go annually to students who are members of the University Orchestra and who demonstrate talent and good citizenship; (2) the L.E. Phillips Professorship in the department of philosophy and religious studies; (3) the Philip Breitman Memorial Scholarship, awarded to junior or senior College of Business students; (4) the Leadership Institute, which offers weeklong summer programs to enhance the leadership potential of precollegiate students; and (5) the Business Internship Program, which provides internships for UW-Eau Claire students at workplaces in the Chippewa Valley and increases students’ awareness of employment opportunities in the region. James and Anne Ramsey, Longwood, Fla., $1.5 million planned gift to endow a UW-Eau Claire faculty position in the sciences. The gift will establish the Oliver Marion Ramsey Science Chair in memory of James Ramsey’s brother, a 1933 UW-Eau Claire graduate who later graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He was killed in the Battle of Guadalcanal on Nov. 13, 1942. Full story. UW-Eau Claire alumnus Michael Schulze, Pewaukee, has made a planned gift that will significantly benefit the Morris D. Hayes Scholarship Fund. Schulze was a member of UW-Eau Claire's The Singing Statesmen from 1981 through 1984. Hayes was the group's founder and first conductor. Full story. Peter Scobie and Robert Giles, Eau Claire, $25,000 to support the creation of a College of Business Cyberlab. Scobie and Giles are cousins, business partners and UW-Eau Claire business graduates. Robert Scobie, Eau Claire (Peter Scobie’s father and Giles’ uncle), also has pledged annual contributions to the project. The UW-Eau Claire College of Business is creating the Cyberlab to ensure that UW-Eau Claire’s business graduates will enter the workforce with in-depth experience using the latest business software programs and confidence in their ability to learn new technologies. The gifts will be matched dollar for dollar by a UW System grant that supports technology for business schools. James and Holly Trester, Dallas, Texas, $25,000 to endow (permanently fund) a Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarship at UW-Eau Claire. Each year $1,000 from interest earned in the Tresters’ WAES fund will be matched by state funds to provide a $2,250 scholarship to a top graduate from one of Wisconsin’s high schools who chooses to attend UW-Eau Claire. WAES scholarships are renewable for up to four years and are a way to keep Wisconsin’s best and brightest in the state, contributing to its healthy future. James Trester graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1983 with a degree in accounting. Holly Trester, a 1984 UW-Eau Claire graduate, earned a degree in computer science and math. Read more about the Tresters and why they support UW-Eau Claire. Xcel Energy Inc., $15,000 to continue support of (1) Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarships, a state-supported program to keep Wisconsin’s best and brightest in the state; (2) diversity scholarships to attract and retain multicultural students; (3) single-parent scholarships; (4) the annual high school Math Meet sponsored by Xcel Energy and offered by the mathematics department; and (5) the annual Leadership Institute for middle school and high school students. Xcel Energy’s gift also provides general support for the College of Business. This most recent gift brings to $32,240 Xcel Energy’s total contributions to Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence since July 2000. |
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