Giving Close to Home (Fall 2011)

President Herbst, Husband Create Scholarship
Underscoring the critical nature of philanthropy and the humanities at UConn, President Susan Herbst and her husband have announced a gift of $100,000 to establish a scholarship for needy students.
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Students First Fund Golf Tournament Aids UConn Students in Need
A day of golf may sound like a walk in the park, but for those who participated on a warm Friday in June, the goal was much more than a hole-in-one. The Third Annual Students First Funds Golf Tournament, sponsored by Simplex Grinnell, was held to benefit the Students First Fund: Community Service at the University Club in North Windham on June 3.
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Close to Home, and Close to Heart
Lynn Z. Bloom, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Martin Bloom, Professor Emeritus of Social Work, are establishing the Bloom Endowment for the Mark Twain Distinguished Author-in-Residence with a planned gift through the UConn Foundation.
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Working with Heart
Bruce Liang, interim dean of the School of Medicine and director of the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center, is making an impact on a disease that kills one person every minute in the United States. And he hadn’t even wanted to be a cardiologist.
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The 2011 Close to Home Honor Roll
View the 2011 Faculty/Staff Honor Roll of Donors. It reflects outright gifts of cash and pledge payments received by the Foundation between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. To our faculty/staff donors, thank you for your support of UConn!
VIEW THE HONOR ROLL (Adobe Acrobat)

Thank you to our Close to Home Committee volunteers!

Members of the Close to Home Campaign Committee provide financial contributions to the University of Connecticut and serve as leaders inspiring others to make a commitment in support of fellow UConn faculty, students and staff. Committee members agree to attend committee meetings throughout the year. They also meet with groups of employees to communicate their own reasons for giving back to UConn, and to ask fellow employees to participate by making a gift.

Co-Chairs
Rob Hoskin, Associate Professor of Accounting
Jennifer Person, Director of University Payroll Office

Committee:
Harold Brody, Distinguished Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Brian G. Chapman, Director of Outreach, Director of OLLI, UConn–Waterbury
Sharon Davis, Director of Architectural, Engineering and Building Administrative Services
Daniel Doerr, Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs
Mary Ann Dolan, Alumni Relations, School of Pharmacy
Jim Donohue, Assistant Director of Athletics and Executive Director of the UConn Club
M. Kevin Fahey, Senior Associate Director of Student Activities
Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost, University Libraries
Andrew Gibson, Dining Services Area Assistant Manager
Shawn Kornegay, Director of Marketing & Communications, Neag School of Education
Thomas Long, Associate Professor-in-Residence, School of Nursing
Glen O’Keefe, Bursar
David Ouimette, Executive Program Director, First Year Programs and Learning Communities
Rodney Rock, Director of Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Ronald Sabatelli, Professor and Department Head, Human Development and Family Studies
Stuart Sidney, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
William Stwalley, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Physics & Department Head
Janene Vandi, Business Manager, Avery Point
David Woods, Dean of Fine Arts

GET INVOLVED!

• Join the Close to Home Committee. Call 860-486-1173
  or e-mail Karen Santasiere, director of annual giving.
• Consider making a gift today!
• Read more about the Close to Home Campaign at closetohome.foundation.uconn.edu
  

Office of Annual Giving
860-486-1173
campaign@foundation.uconn.edu