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Gifts at Work

The generosity and leadership of Wake Foresters across the country has contributed greatly to the continued progress of "The Campaign for Wake Forest University: Honoring the Promise." In fact, since the campaign's inception, nearly 250 scholarships, programs, and professorships have been created or augmented. Here are some of the stories of those gifts at work.

COLLEGE

Scholarship Support

Who dunnit? $4 million mystery gift
Lib Burns' goodwill gift
Bill Collins ('61) assists Virginians
Eddins family honors six generations
Reece Scholarship remembers longtime dean
Rossers fund service scholarship
Kimberly Boatwright Shirley ('85) pays it forward
W. Keith Stamey ('59) leaves entire estate
Fund remembers William G. Starling ('57)
Howard Vaughan ('31) estate gift
Brenner children honor their mother
Honoring Kitty Green ('74, MBA '82), a servant to others
Children create Pittman Scholarship

Faculty Support

Charles M. Allen ('39, MA '41) gives generously
David ('77) and Lelia J. ('77) Farr endow professorship

Student Travel

Amanda Edwards ('97) remembered by memorial fund
Hubert B. Humphrey, Jr. ('48) changes lives

Foundation Gifts
Annenberg Foundation supports Presidential Scholars
Atlantic Philanthropies assists service-learning
Family of Cisco founder funds entrepreneurship
Starr Foundation and "mutual respect"
ZSR increases support by 50 percent
ZSR matches large scholarship gifts

CALLOWAY

BB&T supports Calloway expansion
Kresge challenge grant aids Calloway expansion

GRADUATE SCHOOL

Hearst Foundation assists underrepresented students

BABCOCK

Fellow trustees recognize L. Glenn Orr
Wachovia presents largest single Babcock gift

DIVINITY

Carpenter Foundation funds Jewish studies professorship
DuPont Foundation supports homiletics professorship

LAW

Robert B. Broughton (JD '51) continues family legacy of service
DuPont gift helps public interest law graduates repay student loans Russell E. Twiford (JD '52) helps others

ATHLETICS

Pete Kulynych's recent gift a "total shock"
Douglas and Elizabeth Manchester give "front porch" new name

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