- July 2012
Dean '62 and Zoe Pappas Establish $1 Million Scholarship Fund
Dean '62 and Zoe Pappas establish $1 million scholarship fund.
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- April 2012
Turning Ideas into Action
The Idea Fund turns Dickinson's "wouldn't it be great" ideas into reality.
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- January 2012
Learning By Doing
Michael Blair ’12 reflects on his Dickinson experience, made possible through an endowed scholarship.
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- December 2011
Making Magic Happen
Marilyn Romero ’12 discusses how her scholarship changed her life.
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- November 2011
Discovering ‘Much More’
Mohammed Hossain ’12 came to Dickinson expecting an education that would simply set him on a career path. What he got was an experience that changed his life.
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- October 2011
New Campaign Chairs Wonder, ‘Why stop now?’
For new campaign co-chairs Amy Nauiokas ’94 and Harry Harrison, the decision to extend First in America was a no-brainer.
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- September 2011
Opening Doors
Marianh Aman ’12 discovers her passion at Dickinson with help from a John Dickinson Scholarship.
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‘Class Sourcing’
Pohanka Chair Matthew Pinsker gives students chance to work with Civil War expert.
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- July 2011
New Endowment Ensures Permanent Toulouse Directorship
Carol Jones Saunders ’62 and Hal Saunders endow Carol Jones Saunders ’62 Fund for the Toulouse Center Directorship.
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- May 2011
Celebrating First in America
Donors, faculty members and students gathered to celebrate—and even dance to—the success of the capital campaign.
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- April 2011
Faculty Chairs Enhance Campaign’s Impact
The transformational power of the First in America capital
campaign was celebrated at a January board of trustees reception and
dinner, during which two new endowed faculty chairs were installed.
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- March 2011
Mina Grothey ’67 Makes Immediate Impact with CGA
Mina
Grothey ’67 has enjoyed a long career in library science, but her interest in
research first blossomed at Dickinson.
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- January 2011
Million-Dollar Challenge Boosts Campaign
Alumni and parents have launched The Million-Dollar Challenge to help complete the First in America capital campaign.
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- October 2010
Cameroon fund supports defining experience
Amy Nauiokas ’94’s generous gift supports the Cameroon program.
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- September 2010
Paul Strickler ’51 Gives Back with CGA
Paul Strickler ’51 wants to help Dickinson continue to move forward with his charitable gift annuity (CGA).
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- July 2010
Scholarship's Power is Clearly Visible
Annual Donor-Scholar Luncheon celebrates scholarships and their impact beyond Dickinson.
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- April 2010
Scholarship Encourages Reciprocal Giving
New endowed-scholarship fund will make Dickinson more affordable and inspire recipients to support future scholars.
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- February 2010
Making Dickinson Possible: The Impact of Scholarships
Thanks to the Ann Conser Curley ’63 Scholarship, Marissa Folk '08 is blazing a career path that once looked impossible.
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- January 2010
Beach Gift Furthers Lasting Connection to College
Walter Beach '56 funds faculty chairs through a $7
million estate gift.
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- October 2009
Important Rush portrait finds new home at Dickinson
Lockwood Rush, a descendant of Benjamin Rush, helps bring an historic portrait of the college's founder to Dickinson.
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- September 2009
Supporting Art Studies
To open a window into the arts, Sylvia Smith ’73 established the Sylvia J.
Smith Visiting Artists Fund with a $75,000 gift that brings a
professional artist to Dickinson each year to craft his or her own art
while working with students.
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- April 2009
Turning Frustration into Inspiration
To inspire Dickinson students to help tackle the daunting challenge of
national health-care reform, Ed Fleegler '73 recently pledged $100,000
to establish the Fleegler Family Scholarship Endowment in Health
Studies.
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- February 2009
Linking Science’s Future With its Past
Through his recent $100,000 gift to the college, Neal Abraham ’72
helped fund a Rector Science Complex laser lab and named two of the
complex's alcoves after historic scientists with Dickinson ties,
Benjamin Rush and Joseph Priestley.
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- November 2008
Mr. X's Legacy
As the State Department's premier Soviet expert during the Cold War,
Donald Graves '53 knew that understanding Russia was vital for America.
That led him to establish a scholarship for the study of Russian
language and culture.
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- October 2008
Gift Honors First African American Graduate
Dickinson Trustee James Chambers ’78 and his wife Niecy recently establish an endowed scholarship fund named after Dickinson's first known African American graduate, John Robert Paul Brock, class of 1901.
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- July 2008
The President’s Professor
Lieselotte Kurth's unique ties to President William G. Durden '71 have motivated her to give the Waidner-Spahr Library a complete collection of the works of one of the pillars of 18th-century German literature.
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- May 2008
An Inspirational Gift
Seeing what Dickinson did for their daughter Emily ’07, Bob and Veronica Bailin pledged to give up to $100,000 in matching gifts to the Parents Fund “I’m excited and flattered that my experience has helped inspire my parents to make this gift,” said Emily.
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- April 2008
Rose Gift Blooms
Samuel G. Rose ’58 has given $10 million to increase opportunity and diversity at Dickinson through scholarships for economically disadvantaged students from urban areas.
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- October 2007
Making a Splash
"A Charitable Gift Annuity allowed us to do something really special for my 50th reunion without disrupting our financial situation," says Bill Houpt '57. Find out how you can too.
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- September 2007
Energetic Science
Kirsten Guss, assistant professor of biology and Dickinson’s first John R. and Inge Paul Stafford Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics, is known for her cutting-edge research, her attentive teaching style and her passion for athletics.
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- August 2007
Sirena Sings
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Jorge Sagastume has revolutionized Dickinson’s Spanish program and brought the idea of a biannual international and multilingual poetry journal to life.
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- May 2007
Service Learning
Claudia Shuba '08 has balanced her academic work as a math and chemistry double major with her commitment to community service on and off campus.
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- April 2007
The Internationalist
David Durstewitz '10 came to Dickinson in pursuit of an "internationalist" education. This Benjamin Rush scholarship and Engage the World fellowship recipient has found just what he was looking for.
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- March 2007
Zug Family Ties Move College Forward
Tom Zug '68 and his family established scholarships for his father, Tom '33, and his uncles, Richard '28 and Harry '34. While helping others and contributing to the success of tomorrow's leaders, the endowed scholarships also honor the past.
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- January 2007
A Studied Spruce Up
Michael Pennington '07 is a student, but he's already acting like a dedicated member of the alumni. He just donated part of an inheritance from his grandmother to the Waidner-Spahr Library.
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- October 2006
A Win-Win Situation
"With my charitable gift annuity I receive quarterly from Dickinson what I had been receiving annually from stock dividends," says David Cohn '48
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- September 2006
Capitalizing on Success
Campaign co-chairs George and Jennifer Ward Reynolds '77 are excited about the direction in which the college is heading.
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- June 2006
A Groundbreaking Leap for Science
A $5 million gift from the Stuart-Amick family will fund the lead hall of the new science complex being built at the corner of North College and West Louther streets. William Stuart Amick '93 and his mother, Wynne Stuart Amick '62, represented the family at the groundbreaking ceremony held in May.
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- February 2006
Gift Brings First Of Many Literary Greats
Jean Louise Stellfox '60 was so inspired by a visit by poet Robert Frost in 1959 that she left more than $1 million to Dickinson. The gift will achieve Stellfox's lifelong mission to inspire students the way she was once inspired by Frost. British novelist and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan came to campus in September 2005 as the first recipient of the Stellfox Prize and Residency for Literary Excellence.
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