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A Lasting Gift: Never Underestimate the Power of a Great Faculty
Never underestimate the power of a great faculty and the affects they can have on student lives. In 2007, Barbara Dodd Anderson donated $128 million to George School in memory of her father David Graham (teacher and business partner of Warren Buffet and co-author of Security Analysis). Anderson died this past November leaving an additional [...]
Read MoreWhat Does this Gift Mean?
Brian Fisher’s post on Loomis Chaffee’s recent $3.3 million gift got me thinking. Boarding schools are having a profound impact on transforming the lives of young men and women. Now we don’t know who the anonymous donor was for Loomis Chaffee, but there are numerous others who have contributed back to their alma maters with [...]
Read MoreLawrenceville School Receives $60 Million Bequest
Lawrenceville School announced and The New York Times reported (At a New Jersey School, a $60 Million Bequest) that “Janie Woods, who died at age 87 in 2007, and her husband, Henry C. Woods Jr., had bequeathed the school $60 million, the largest donation in its 200-year history.” Lawerencville’s head, Liz Duffy stated in a [...]
Read MoreThe Importance of Local Support: The Hotchkiss School Makes $400,000 Matching Donation to Firehouse Project
Affirming the modern age of cooperation and shared responsibility, The Hotchkiss School recently pledged a matching gift $400,000 to the town of Salisbury, CT in support of the town’s efforts to build a new fire station. The new station will cost an estimated $3 million; the town is working to fund $1 million of the [...]
Read MoreTisch Family Makes $7 million Gift to The Gunnery- Gunnery’s largest single gift
Some very exciting news to pass along… Joan H. Tisch along with sons and Gunnery alumni Steve E. Tisch (1967) and Jonathan M. Tisch (1972) have made a $7 million gift to The Gunnery. The gift will fund the expansion and refurbishing of the school’s primary building- The Schoolhouse which includes the Tisch Libary. Parts [...]
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