Gifts, grants, and bequests

Last fall, the College received ten gifts and commitments for endowed scholarships, including a $25,000 addition to the Hyman '28 and Dorothy Kaplan Scholarship, made to honor Kaplan as he celebrated his ninetieth birthday.

Other new endowed scholarship gifts include:

• $50,000 from Robert A. Laudise, which is being used to establish the Anthony T. Laudise Scholarship as well as a separate endowed summer research fellowship; 
• $25,000 from Dr. and Mrs. David M. Harvey '51; 
• $25,000 from an anonymous donor as an addition to the Roland D. Ciaranello '65 Memorial Scholarship; 
• $20,000 from Dean of Engineering Emeritus Lawrence J. Hollander; 
• $20,000 from Seymour '44 and Muriel Thickman; 
• $10,000 from the W. R Grace Foundation in memory of Thomas E. Hanigan, Jr., '44.

Additions to endowed scholarships were also made by Lewis W. Hallenbeck '44 and Mrs. Hans W. Munzer '39.

The College also received several bequest and trust distributions for scholarship endowments. These include:

• more than $260,000 from the trust of Eugene W. Hellmich '23; 
• $230,000 from the trust of Edgar W. Earle '06; 
• $150,000 from the estate of Mrs. Dwight Davies Folsom; 
• additional distributions from the trusts of Marshall W. Quandt '33, Franklyn Millham '32, Florence Judkins, and Codman Hislop.

An anonymous estate distributed $60,000 to establish the Taylor-Schneiderwind endowed scholarship.

Other recent bequests were received from the estates of Ferdinand Helm '37 ($16,000, unrestricted); Harold S. Dunning ($74,880 for Schaffer Library); Professor of English Carl A. Niemeyer ($27,253, unrestricted); Cheryl Beranek '73 ($500, unrestricted); David J. Parker '33 ($659, unrestricted); and Charles Buckley '26 ($21,193 for the Department of Political Science).

Unrestricted distributions were received from the trusts of Walter Guest Kellogg, Class of 1899, for $20,000, and Mrs. Avery J. Beer '42.

New life income plans have been established by J. Clark Alberts '44, Myron J. Cohn '32, H. Milton Chadderon '33, Dr. Jonas Fleminberg '31, Moey L. Friedman '42, Stephen H. Gow '35, Wallace C. Hughes '37, Francis J. Jankowski '43, Donald H.G. Mackenzie '34, Othniel A. Pendleton '33, Professor of History Robert V. Wells, and Frederick C. Wikoff, Jr., '43.

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