Below are just
a few of the stories of individuals whose planned gifts to the
UW-Eau Claire Foundation have made a difference and changed
lives:
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Professor emeritus Ronald Schlattman creates scholarship
Gift annuity, annual gifts to support fund for students seeking study-abroad experiences. |
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Frugal planning leads to greater giving
Financial planning enabled Louise Pederson Gillette to give generously despite humble beginnings. |
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Estate gift immortalizes alum's positive spirit
Estate of alumnus Scott Seawell leaves $200,000 gift to support two annual $4,000 scholarships for computer science students. |
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Ann Gunderson Thornburg honors parents' encouragement
Following amazing career, accounting graduate's estate gift will permanently endow the Thomas and Mavis Gunderson Blugold Promise Scholarship. |
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Alumni couple's gift plan tells a love story
Margaret Bartelt memorializes her husband, Gordon Bartelt, with a gift of stock and creates a trust that will benefit their alma mater in perpetuity. |
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Emerita faculty member leaves $454,000 estate gift
Ethel Seitz, UW-Eau Claire professor emerita of geography, has left $454,000 to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, designating $354,000 to endow a Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarship and $100,000 to further endow scholarships for geography students. |
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Centenarians'
wills include UW-Eau Claire
Faculty
pursuing professional development and outstanding music students
are the beneficiaries of gifts from the estates of an alumna
and a longtime Eau Claire dentist, both of whom lived more than
100 years. |
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A
hero remembered
The courage
and dedication of Oliver Marion Ramsey is memorialized with
a generous planned gift by Jim and Anne Ramsey to support a
new science faculty position. |
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Alumni
couple make $4.5 million gift
A
$4 million charitable remainder trust is part of a $4.5 million
gift from UW-Eau Claire alumni David and Marilyn Karlgaard to
the university's Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence
campaign. |
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Professor
emeritus gives to social work department
David Johnson, who worked 20 years as a faculty member in UW-Eau
Claire's social work department, has made a planned gift that
eventually will endow a social work faculty position. |
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Planned
gift funds nontraditional student scholarship
Generosity was a way of life for Patricia Anderson, and now,
even after her death, her benevolence is making a difference
in the lives of students at UW-Eau Claire.
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Generous
alumnus supports Morris D. Hayes fund
UW-Eau
Claire alumnus Michael Schulze, a member of UW-Eau Claire's
Singing Statesmen from 1981 through 1984, has not forgotten
the group’s creed: “Once a Statesman, always a Statesman.” |
