Founders Treated to a New View of Campus

More than 250 members of the Founders Society attended a dinner held in their honor Sept. 16 on campus. Guests traveled from 12 states and the District of Columbia and represented alumni from every decade from the 1940s to 2003 to enjoy the formal event held in a spacious clear-topped tent that afforded Founders a spectacular view of academic buildings along the campus ridge.

Thirteen students from the Student Alumni Council presented talks about new academic projects and gave golf-cart tours along the just-opened loop road that connects North Village student apartments to the athletic fields and the Leroy Merritt Fitness Center, currently under construction on the front entrance of Gill Center.

“Our campus has changed,” said President Joan Develin Coley in her brief remarks at the dinner. “Today’s student chooses a college not only on the quality of its academics, but also on the amenities of lifestyle. As we renovate and build new residence halls, as we create places for students to gather to study, to learn, to ‘work out,’ to eat and to play, we move ever closer to the living learning community of our vision.”

In the fiscal year 2006, gifts to the Annual Fund and to the broader capital objectives from members of the Founders Society totaled just under $10 million.

Charlie Collyer, Charlie Moore ’71, Pam Zappardino ’71, Carol Hoerichs Moore ’70, Joanne Moffatt Gill ’62, Ken Gill ‘61

Patty Buckner, Lanny Buckner ’63, Jan Guenther, Otto Guenther ’63, Jerry Oppel ’63

Sarah Shank ’08, Holly Debaugh ’10, Michelle Debaugh ’08, Danielle Guiffre ’10, Eleanor White Brown ’61

Beth Wizke Barnes ’53, Mary Ruth Elseroad ’48, Elmer Elseroad ’40, President Joan Develin Coley

Music faculty lecturer and alumnus Eric Byrd (keyboards) and his combo

Steve Kousouris ’79 and Mary Lou Payne Kousouris ’81

Mary Connor Carter ’74, Kevin Hanley ’72, Alice Boyer Hanley ’72, Joe Carter ’73

Barbara Thomas ’70 and Pam Zappardino ’71

Dr. Chitrachedu Naganna, Tom Scott ’53, Dr. Vimala Naganna, Bill Dulany ’50 and Winifred Spencer Dulany ’53

Fern Hitchcock ’47 and wife Julia Hitchcock

Finance VP Ethan Seidel with Trustee Steve Kesler

President Joan Develin Coley, Judy Ellis Rembert ’60 and Donald Rembert ’61

Rich Kief, vice president, Institutional Advancement, Jim Lightner ’59, Jim Melhorn, chair, Board of Trustees

Les Alperstein ’63, Lois Alperstein, Jerry Oppel ’63 and Gail Shaivitz Oppel

College Trustees Charlie Moore ’71 and Bruce Preston ’75

Contact Michele Leiberman, associate director of media relations, at 410-857-2294.