Vol. 19, No. 3 - Summer 2003

Personal energy and public impact

Someone recently shared a quote with me, attributed to an American clergyman named Harry Emerson Fosdick:

Money is a person’s personal energy reduced to portable form…

It can go where he could not go;

Speak languages he could not speak;

Lift burdens he could not touch with his fingers;

Save lives with which he cannot deal directly.

The image of money as our “personal energy” is a powerful one, and even more powerful in the context of Campaign Minnesota, the University’s major fundraising drive of which the college has been a part.

Five thousand alumni have made gifts—both large and small—to the college since 1996. Together with faculty, staff, and friends, they have raised over $19 million in gifts and future commitments to benefit our students, faculty, research, and community outreach.

These generous alumni have helped to increase the college’s permanent endowment funds from just $7 million in 1996 to almost $17 million today. In these times of budget retrenchment and tuition increases, this means an increased source of permanent annual income for the college that cannot be cut by the state legislature.

The good news is that if you have not yet made a gift to Campaign Minnesota, there is still time. All gifts received by June 30, 2003, will be counted for the campaign. If you have given—our very sincere thanks. If you have not yet made a commitment, now is the time! Join the 5,000 who are making a very real impact by supporting the work of the College of Education and Human Development.

If you would like more information on making a gift, please contact me, Lynn Slifer, director of development, at 612-625-5511 or by e-mail at slife001@umn.edu.

New gifts to the college

Carmen and Jim Campbell have made a gift commitment of $1 million to establish the Carmen Starkson Campbell Endowed Chair in Urban Education.

Julie M. Jensen (CEHD ’65, ’68, ’70) has made a gift of $90,000 to the Julie M. Jensen Endowment Fund in Elementary Language Arts Education for support of Book Week, an event sponsored annually by the children’s literature program of the college.

Mildred Templin (CEHD ’47) has made a future gift through her estate of $150,000 of which half is designated to the Institute for Child Development and half will go to the Department of Communication Disorders in the College of Liberal Arts.

Jack W. Behonek (CEHD ’52) has made a future gift of $50,000 through his estate to support theater arts and science education.

Elaine Stulberg (CEHD ’54) and Dr. Jerome Stulberg have made a future gift of $50,000 through their estate for support of the college.

Margaret Bubolz (College of Human Ecology/home economics education, ’47) has made a future gift commitment through her estate.

An anonymous charitable gift annuity of $30,000 has been made to benefit the Department of Educational Psychology in the college.

Rodney L. Nelson (CEHD ’63) has made a future commitment of $25,000 through his estate for support of the college.

Dr. Paul T. Moran and Nancy Moran have made a gift of $15,000 through the Paul and Nancy Moran Fund to support research on deaf education in China.