 Construction of Gault
Manor begins
Construction of Gault Manor began this week at the corner
of Wayne and Beall avenues. The 73-bed residence hall,
the final capital project in The College of Wooster’s
$122-million Independent Minds campaign, will be ready
for occupancy in August 2008.
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Independent Minds within $2
million of endowment goal as finish line approaches
As the Independent Minds campaign enters its
final months, the most ambitious fund-raising effort in
The College of Wooster’s history is within $2 million
of its last unmet goal. Wooster’s trustees, alumni,
parents, and friends have made $51 million in gifts and
pledges to the endowment, against a goal of $53 million.
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Trustees
issue $5 million endowment challenge
With the Independent Minds campaign $10 million
short of its final goal of $53 million in new endowment,
the college’s board of trustees has issued a challenge.
If Wooster’s alumni, parents, and friends make new
gifts and pledges to the endowment totaling at least $5
million before the campaign ends on June 30, 2007, the
trustees — who collectively have given more than
$30 million to the campaign already — will contribute
$5 million in new gifts and pledges of their own.
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Kauke rededicated with joy and gratitude
It was a typical late October day in Northeast Ohio: grey
skies and rain, followed by plunging temperatures and strong
winds that knocked out electrical power on campus for about
three hours in the afternoon. But the crowds gathered to
celebrate the rededication of Kauke Hall took it all in
stride.
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Local supporters and alumni celebrate renovation of Kauke Hall
More than 300 community members and Wooster alumni from
Wayne and Holmes counties turned out Thursday night (September
7) to celebrate completion of the renovation of Kauke Hall,
the college’s largest academic building and a campus
icon since 1902.
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$3 million gift from the Class of 1956 highlights Alumni Weekend 2006
The Class of 1956 announced a gift of $3,072,268 — including
more than $2.2 million for the college’s endowment — at
the 122nd annual meeting of The College of Wooster Alumni
Association on Saturday. The announcement came as more
than 1,300 Wooster graduates and family members returned
to campus for Alumni Weekend 2006.
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Mellon Foundation gives $200,000 to support writing program at Wooster
The College of Wooster has received a $200,000 grant from
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Program
in Writing. The Mellon gift will be placed in the college’s
endowment and its income used to cover on-going program
expenses, including annual on-campus workshops, visiting
speakers, books, and supplies.
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Friendship, Admiration, Respect Lead to New Scholarship in Anthropology
Pam Frese will never forget her first encounter with Mariska
Marker. It was 10 years ago at a seminar on heirlooms in
the private dining hall of a retirement center reserved
for retired officers of the U.S. military and their wives.
Frese, a professor of anthropology at The College of Wooster,
was collecting the oral histories of wives of retired military
officers at the time.
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Arthur Vining Davis Foundations give $200,000 to endow a scholarship
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations have endowed a new
scholarship at The College of Wooster with a grant of $200,000.
The gift pushes the amount of new endowment raised to date
in Wooster’s comprehensive campaign to $30 million.
The college hopes to raise $53 million in new endowment
by the end of the campaign in June 2007.
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Morgan grant will establish social entrepreneurship program at Wooster
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation has awarded a three-year,
$228,400 grant to The College of Wooster to establish a
social entrepreneurship program in which students will
learn to apply insights and techniques from the business
world to not-for-profit enterprises. More...
From top to bottom, Kauke is a hive of construction activity
Barely a month after the Class of 2005 marched through
the arch at commencement, Kauke Hall is filled with dust
and debris, the whine of saws and the percussive battering
of jackhammers. Construction workers swarm from rooftop
to basement as the $18 million renovation of the college’s
signature building gets underway. More...
Gaults give The College of Wooster a new residence hall
Stanley C. and Flo K. Gault have announced their intention
to fund construction of a new, 65-bed residence hall, the
final capital project in The College of Wooster’s
$122 million campaign. That commitment will enable Wooster’s
development office to focus on raising money for the college’s
endowment during the campaign’s final two years. More...
College meets Walton challenge, then raises $2 million more
The College of Wooster has met The Walton Family Foundation’s
challenge, raising more than $8 million to claim the full
match for the renovation of Kauke Hall. James T. Clarke,
chair of the Independent Minds campaign, made the announcement
at a dinner for the college’s board of trustees here
Friday night. He then stunned the group by announcing a
pair of million dollar gifts, one from the Timken Foundation
of Canton, Ohio, the other from Stanley C. and Flo K. Gault
of Wooster, to complete funding of the Kauke project. More...
Luce Foundation
Funds Environmental Analysis & Action Program
The College of Wooster has received a $270,000 grant from
The Henry Luce Foundation in New York City for a three-year
program to expand student and faculty engagement with environmental
issues. The Environmental Analysis and Action Program will
support several joint student-faculty research projects
each year, as well as an annual symposium devoted to interdisciplinary
exploration of environmental issues. More...
Final push to meet Walton Foundation challenge begins
With less than three months left to match
The Walton Family Foundation’s $8 million challenge grant
for the renovation of Kauke Hall, President Stan Hales is asking
thousands of College of Wooster alumni to help put the effort
over
the top. More...
Bornhuetter Residence Hall to be Dedicated Oct. 8
The College of Wooster's new Bornhuetter Residence Hall,
which opened its doors to students this fall, will be formally
dedicated on Friday, Oct. 8, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The
program will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony by Ron and
Carol Bornhuetter, whose generous gift to Wooster's Independent
Minds Campaign made the project possible. More...
Kauke Challenge passes halfway point
With just under eight months to go, The College of Wooster
has raised $4.5 million toward the Walton Family Foundation’s
$8 million Kauke Challenge. Overall, Independent Minds:
The Campaign for Wooster has raised $90 million toward
a goal of $122 million. More...
Chambers
of Commerce meet “after hours” at Wooster
More than 100 members of the Wooster, Orrville, Dalton
and Holmes County chambers of commerce got a behind-the-scenes
look at plans for the $18 million renovation of Kauke Hall,
The College of Wooster’s signature building, at a “business
after hours” reception on the Wooster campus Monday
evening. More...
Noble Foundation gives $500,000 for Kauke Hall renovation
The Donald and Alice Noble Foundation has given $500,000
toward the renovation of Kauke Hall, The College of Wooster’s
main academic building. The gift was announced to the college’s
board of trustees at their meeting here Saturday (March
27). More...
College receives $975,000 federal grant for information technology
The College of Wooster will receive a $975,000 federal
grant for campus information technology upgrades as part
of the fiscal year 2004 spending bill passed by Congress
and signed by President Bush in late January. U.S. Rep.
Ralph Regula (R-OH) was instrumental in obtaining the grant. More...
Clock starts running on Kauke Hall challenge
The Walton Family Foundation has agreed to allow up to
$8 million of its previously announced gift to The College
of Wooster to be used as a challenge grant for the renovation
of Kauke Hall. One million dollars of the $9 million gift
has already been designated to endow a scholarship fund. More...
Mark
Wilson Named Nixon Professor in Natural Sciences
Mark A. Wilson has been named the first Lewis M. and Marian
Senter Nixon Professor in the Natural Sciences at The College
of Wooster. Wilson, a professor of geology and chair of
the department, is an expert in evolution, paleontology,
and sedimentary geology. More...
Wooster
Launches $122 Million Campaign with Largest Gift in College’s
History
The College of Wooster kicked off its largest fund-raising
campaign ever today (Oct. 18) by announcing the largest
single gift in the school’s history — $9 million
from The Walton Family Foundation, Inc. More...
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