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TE XAS This issue of Spirit explores tL,,, legacy of Herman F. Heep '20: the Herman F. AM4 leep .J Minnie Belle Heep Texas A&M University Foundation. Heep was just 17 FOUNDATION years old when he posed for this A&M College of Texas yearbook photo in 1917. Instilled with the spirit of Aggieland, the young man grew to be a successful rancher, businessman and philanthropist, and the Heep Foundation has become a mainstay of support for Texas A&M University.

PRESIDENT'S LETTER

Multiply Your Legacy

There's a place in the bottom floor of the Jon E Hagler Center on campus (home of the Texas A&M Foundation) that most Aggies will never see, but one that is responsible for launching many success stories at Texas A&M. It's a quiet and modest suite of three offices, one of which is occupied by an old friend and colleague named James B. "Jimmy" Bond '58, who often jokes that he and his comrades down in the "garden district" have been banished and forgotten in this chilly crypt. Nothing could be further from the truth. The office is home to the Herman E and Minnie Belle Heep Texas A&M Foundation, and Bond is its president. You might know Jimmy from your time at Thxas A&M. Before assuming responsibility for the Heep Foundation, he served as vice chancellor and general counsel for 13 years and in various other positions in the offices of general counsel and state / public affairs. Jimmy is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Heep Foundation and its $27 million endowment. He reports to a seven-man board of directors, most of whom are either members or former members of the Texas A&M University Board of Regents.

Inside this issue of Spirit magazine you can read more about Herman F. Heep ' 20, his wife, Minnie Belle, the foundation they created and some of the magnificent things it has done for Texas A&M (page z). Both the man and his legacy make for good storytelling, and we hope you Find it a good read. The Heep Foundation is perhaps best known for helping former Texas A&M President Ray Bowen significantly increase the number of graduate fellowships, professorships and chairs on campus (2.7 total) through a creative matching program that doubled the value of a donor's gift, stretching it to new possibilities. Though its matching program is now more restrictive than it was a few years ago, the Heep Foundation is a good example of the power of matching gifts. A majority of companies offer employee matching gift programs, as well. A few, like ExaonMobil (page 30), offer a liberal 3-to-I match. This kind of generosity demonstrates the extraordinary commitment to higher education and other charities on the part of ExxonMobil. Employee matching gifts are incentives that make giving back to Texas A&M attractive and easy. Choose the program you want to support, fill out the paperwork required by your employer, and double, triple or even quadruple your gift to the school we think so grand. Gig 'em,

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A brief overview of the Heep Foundation 4-5 Texas ARM Foundation

4 A POCKETFUL OF MEMORIES Board of Trustees Professor's memories bring Heeps back to life Meeting

SEPTEMBER 6 MAJOR GIFT HONOR ROLL A record of elite donors to the Texas A&M Foundation 9 Texas ARM Foundation Birthday Celebration 8 MITCHELL'S MISSION Tailgate An interview with George P. Mitchell '40 23 President's Endowed 1 2 PHILANTHROPY MEETS PHYSICS Scholarship Reception Physics department head masters solicitation science OCTOBER

16 IF HERMAN COULD SEE US Now 14 Foundation Excellence Heep-funded projects abound in College of Science Award Tailgate Party

20 HAWKING'S HENCHMAN NOVEMBER Physics professor investigates string theory under 3 Dwight Look College of endowed chair Engineering Advisory 24 DREAM MATCHES Council Ralph Ellis '52 finances fellowships with Heep match 11 ARM Legacy Society Heritage Members 28 SOSA'S JOURNEY Tailgate Party Backed by big-hearted former students, young entrepreneur begins Mays School adventure MARCH 2007

29-30 One Spirit One Vision 30 EXXONMOBIL'S MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM Generous match makes giving a pleasure for Brittans Campaign Finale

32 SEPARATED BY TIME, JOINED BY GENEROSITY Krugers drive cadet's dreams with ExxonMobil match

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36 GREAT MATCHES THROUGH HISTORY

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EDITOR Chandler Arden, OFFICERS Spirit is published by the Texas A&M Sondra White '87 Eddie J. Davis '67 Specialties Photography, AtSz.M. Foundation, the nonprofit corporation ASSISTANT EDITOR President po 30, 32 ' " '" that directs major gift fund raising and Tina Evans James J. Palincsar PRINTER manages DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Sr. Vice President assets in support of educational excellence at & PUBLIC RELATIONS Grover Printing for Development Texas A&M. Please direct inquiries to Communications Kathy McCoy '8o Office, Texas BOARD OF TRUSTEES John R. Stropp '66 A&M Foundation, 401 George Bush Dr., ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Sr. Vice President College Station, TX 77840-2811, 979-845-8161 or Geer Design Inc. Ray A. Rothrock '77 Chairman for Administration 800-392-3310, [email protected] PHOTOGRAPHY . Tax and legal & Operations Mark Beal, Jerry S. Cox '72 information in this newsletter is for educational pur- Liska F. Lusk Universiry Photogra- Melbern G. Glasscock ' 59 poses only and should be examined by independent Vice President phy, p. 6 Robert \V Harvey '77 legal counsel due to possible differences in local laws Ec General Counsel John Lewis, p.9,12 James A. Mayo '7o and individual needs. Doyle Thompson Robb Kendrick, p.16 Roderick D. Stepp '59 Vice President Kendra Beasley, Bob J. Surovik '58 & Controller College of Science, Eddie J. Davis '67

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2 STANDARDS OF NATIONAL EMINENCE MAY A brief overview of the Heep Foundation 4-5 Texas ARM Foundation Board of Trustees 4. A POCKETFUL OF MEMORIES Professor's memories bring Heeps back to life Meeting SEPTEMBER 6 MAJOR GIFT HONOR ROLL A record of elite donors to the Texas A&M Foundation 9 Texas ARM Foundation Birthday Celebration 8 MITCHELL'S MISSION Tailgate An interview with George P. Mitchell '40 23 President's Endowed 12 PHILANTHROPY MEETS PHYSICS Scholarship Reception Physics department head masters solicitation science OCTOBER

6 IF HERMAN COULD SEE US Now 14 Foundation Excellence Heep-funded projects abound in College of Science Award Tailgate Party

20 HAWKING'S HENCHMAN NOVEMBER Physics professor investigates string theory under 3 Dwight Look College of endowed chair Engineering Advisory 24 DREAM MATCHES Council Ralph Ellis '52 finances fellowships with Heep match ARM Legacy Society Heritage Members 28 SOSA'S JOURNEY Tailgate Party Backed by big-hearted former students, young entrepreneur begins Mays School adventure MARCH 2007 29-30 One Spirit One Vision 30 EXXONMOBIL'S MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM Generous match makes giving a pleasure for Brittans Campaign Finale

32 SEPARATED BY TIME, JOINED BY GENEROSITY Krugers drive cadet's dreams with ExxonMobil match

34 FOUNDATION NEWS

3 6 GREAT MATCHES THROUGH HISTORY

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EDITOR Chandler Arden, OFFICERS Spirit is published by the Texas A&M Sondra White '87 Eddie J. Davis '67 Specialties Photography, A&M Foundation, the nonprofit corporation ASSISTANT EDITOR p. 3o, 32 President that directs major gift fund raising and Tina Evans James J. Palincsar PRINTER manages assets in support of educational excellence at DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Sr. Vice President & PUBLIC RELATIONS Grover Printing for Development Texas A&M. Please direct inquiries to Communications Kathy McCoy '8o Office, Texas A&M Foundation, 401 George Bush Dr., BOARD OF TRUSTEES John R. Stropp '66 ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Sr. Vice President College Station, TX 77840-280, 979-845-8161 or Geer Design Inc. Ray A. Rorhrock '77 Chairman for Administration 800-392-3310, [email protected]. TEX PHOTOGRAPHY and legal & Operations Mark Beal, Jerry S. COX '72 information in this newsletter is for educational pur- Liska F. Lusk University Photogra- Melbern G. Glasscock '59 poses only and should be examined by independent Robert W. Harvey '77 Vice President phy, p. 6 legal counsel due to possible differences in local laws James A. Mayo '70 & General Counsel John Lewis, p. 9, 12 and individual needs. Roderick D. Stepp '59 Doyle Thompson Robb Kendrick, p. 16 Vice President Kendra Beasley, Bob J. Surovik '58 6 Controller College of Science, Eddie J. Davis '67

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HEEP FOUNDATION FUNDS STRENGTHEN MAJOR UNIVERSITY INITIATIVES

Elevate the faculty. Improve graduate and undergrad- Each year the Texas A&M president has at his uate programs. Diversify and globalize. Improve space. disposal $1 million in matching funds and roughly Texas A&M University President Robert M. Gates tar- $1 million in distribution funds from the Heep Foun- geted these four areas as the university's initial focus dation. While both types of funds traditionally have for attaining "national eminence." And since 1986, help- supported multiple projects, Bond said both the match- ing Texas A&M achieve this "national eminence" has ing and distribution funds could make a bigger impact been the driving force of the Herman E Heep and when used in tandem to support one or rwo priority- Minnie Belle Heep Texas A&M University Foundation. area projects. During its 19-year history, the Heep Foundation "Together these funds would provide for a mean- has played a vital role in supporting Texas A&M pro- ingful set of resources to enable a program to be ele- grams and activities. Through its matching-gift pro- vated to national eminence," Bond said. "Over time, gram, it has helped create numerous endowed graduate Heep Foundation funds could weave together an insti- fellowships, professorships and faculty chairs. Its annual tute, a program, etcetera, that could really make a distribution funds have supported everything from the difference. Texas A&M agriculture program's landscape training The creation of the Heep Foundation was curriculum project to the creation of the Giant Magellan announced by Minnie Belle Heep, widow of the late Telescope. Herman E Heep '20, to support Texas A&M University And while the Heep Foundation's methodology and Texas A&M University System agricultural and for distributing funds has recently changed, its core engineering agencies. Herman Heep was a founder of focus has not. the Texas A&M College Development Foundation — Heep Foundation President James B. "Jimmy" now the Texas A&M Foundation. He also served on Bond '58 said the foundation's board of directors wants Texas A&M's Board of Directors (now known as Board to achieve "more bang for the buck." In essence, the of Regents) from 1957 until his death in 1960. board wants to "seriously bolster" a key Texas A&M pro- The Heep Foundation was created through inter- gram or activity rather than "whittle away" at the foun- est in ranch land owned by the Heeps in Travis and dation's limited funds with smaller, unrelated projects. Hays counties. All of the Heep Foundation's net income Combining its funds to achieve a single, big- goes to the university and agencies that may participate picture goal marks a new path for the Heep Foundation in a university initiative. —one decided upon by its board of directors in March Today the Heep Foundation manages assets valued 2004. To ensure funding supports this goal, proposals at approximately $27 million. submitted to the Heep board must be in line with the university president's key initiatives and must be sub-

mitted by the president himself. —by Kara Bounds Socol

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4406' 40. Carefully tucked away in the safety deposit box of Fran] C. Litterst Jr. '43 is the bank note used to buy his first her, of cattle. In his front pants pocket, he carries a worn silver money cli bearing the insignia of the Texas Game and Fish Commission. Sitting o a shelf in his study is a framed black-and-white portrait of an impecc bly dressed, well-to-do businessman. And tucked in the bottom. left-han corner of the frame is a tiny school photo of a scrawny cadet at Texa As:Al College who shares the same face of the distinguished man in th -STORY BY KARA BOUNBS SOCOL- larger photo.

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When Minnie Belle Heep died in 1993, she left the photos of her where he led the way in launching the independent, non-profit Texas late husband and his money clip to Litterst. They are among his prized A&M Foundation. Between 1956 and Herman Beep's death in 1960, the possessions. The bank note, too, is dear to him, but not because it marks couple gave $250,000 to the fledgling foundation. his debut as a cattleman. Rather it's in memory of the generous man who But at the mention of the Heep name, what immediately comes to voluntarily put his name on the note's co-signer line: Herman F. Heep. mind to today's students and faculty are the many ways the Herman F. Heep To Texas AaM University and countless numbers of its graduates. and Minnie Belle Beep Texas A&M University Foundation has touched Minnie Belle and Herman Heep '20 will be remembered for their devotion their lives. Whether through faculty chairs, professorships, graduate fel- :0 the school. Herman Heep served as chairman of the Texas AaM Board lowships or individual programs, the Heep Foundation has become a )f Directors and as director of the Texas A&M College Development Fund mainstay of support at Texas A&M.

Stirit • String 2006 Major Gift Honor Roll Herman Heep was born on a Buda, Texas, tle on a parcel of the Heep farm at the time JANUARY I-DECEMBER 31, 2004 farm in 1899. His childhood dream was to be and spoke to Litterst at length about the a cattleman, and by the age of 16 he was richness of Buda pastureland. Haas' enthusi- already the proud owner of a registered Jersey. asm quickly rubbed off on Litterst, who was ONE SPIRIT Heep's ranching ambitions led him to Texas eager for his own ranching business to thrive. A&M in 1916, where he majored in dairy and As Litterst began the process of relocating to A&M animal husbandry. But before he could finish Buda, he received a call from Heep, who ONEVISION his degree, World War I called and he turned offered to lease him and his wife a shotgun in his cadet uniform for military fatigues. house and pastureland on his farm.

The honor roll lists donors Heep returned from the service and "He leased us both places and godfa- who have made gifts or com- resumed college studies—this time at the thered us," Litterst said. "He took us in and mitments of $25,61 00 or University of Wisconsin. Although he earned co-signed our notes. He never paid us a dime, more through the Texas MAI his degree up North, Heep was an avid Texas but he made living and working on his land Foundation. This issue recog- Aggie until his death. well worth it." nizes es made fromJanualy 1- Upon returning to Texas, Heep took up Ask any man who personally knew Heep December 31, 2004. Donors are grouped into two alpha- work in the oilfields and "struck it rich" three to describe him and you tend to get the same betical lists: "Individuals" and times. Before the age of 30 he was a bona fide general reaction: a faraway look, a slow, wide "Corporations & Organi- wildcatter and president of his own company zations." He continued raising cattle as a pastime, procuring a top-breed Jersey herd that gar- Individuals nered recognition across the United States. After marrying Minnie Belle Taylor in 1936, Sandra G. & Daniel J. Adams '77 the couple rebuilt the Buda homestead and Life Insurance-12th Man Foundation/The Association of eventually acquired some 7,000 acres. Their Former Students/Eternal Aggie Band farm became the cornerstone of a leading Ruth & Edwin E. Aldridge Jr. '40 Austin dairy business and one of the U.S. Bequest—The Association of Former military's key milk producers during World Students War II. Nada & James W. Alexander '47 Nada & fames W. Alexander 47 Conservation and educational causes General Rudder Corps Scholarship were also important to the couple. Herman

Robert H. '50 & Judy Ley Allen Heep was appointed by the Texas governor Planned Gift—Robert H. Allen '50 to the State Fish and Game Commission and Endowed Dean's Scholarship Program—Mays Business School served as the first chairman of the Associa- Robert H. '50 & Judy Dey Allen tion of Governing Boards of i8 state-support- Professorship—George Bush School ed institutions of higher learning. of Government & Public Service But Litterst's memories of Heep are far grin and a chuckle. Heep was the quintes- Samuel D. Amspoker Jr. '52 removed from such official titles. Litterst's sential "man's man" — a Hemingway-type Betty Ann Amspoker President's Endowed Scholarship father, Frank C. Litterst Sr. '19, was a Texas character who worked hard and played hard.

Leslie L. Appelt '41 A&M football quarterback when Heep was a Notorious are the stories of him racing across Planned Gift freshman. Litterst said his father "protected" his pastures in his fimousine and throwing

Jean & Ray Auel Heep, who weighed under ioo pounds, earn- lively parties for his employees. Each year Center for Stud_y of First Americans ing him the nickname "sub-fish." The two he'd celebrate the opening of deer-hunting remained lifelong friends. season by inviting such Texas dignitaries as Litterst Jr.'s relationship with the Heeps Lyndon B. Johnson and Allan Shivers to his began when he was ranching and working house. Litterst says with a laugh that he and for a feed business in Alice. His Aggie buddy, Haas would end up in the kitchen washing Richard E. "Dick" Haas '45, was raising cat- dishes during these events.

Terns A g.A1 Foundation 6 Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 Litterst fondly remembers joining the department in Litterst's name. Betye & Charlie H. Barclay '45 Haases and Heeps for trips to out-of-town "She was lovely—the epitome of a Endowed Scholarship in Civil Engineering Aggie football games on the Heeps' airplane. gracious lady," Litterst said of Minnie Belle Bettye & Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 "We didn't have any money, but we Heep. "She was always immaculate and well- Professorship in Engineering Fund would rob the kids' piggybanks and get all kept. She would be stern with us younger Betye & Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 dolled up," he said. "Mrs. Heep would bring guys, but she loved us and was good to us. Scholarship Fund food for picnics on the other team's campus: She was the best." Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 Fellowship in Engineering Fund cold fried chicken, bread and butter sand- In 1997 Texas A&M recognized the wiches and deviled eggs." Roland S. Bartels Heeps by adding their name to the Soil & Texas Agricultural Exper ment Even after Litterst and Haas bought Crop Sciences and Entomology Center, Station farms of their own, the Heeps' kindness con- twin buildings on the university's west cam- Jefferson E. Bell Jr. '42 tinued. Litterst said the only thing that kept pus. Another building on the main cam- Gift Annuity-- Unrestricted the two families on their feet during a four-year pus —dubbed the "Old Herman Heep Stanton P. Bell '54 drought was use of the Heeps' water truck. Stanton F. Bell '29 Memorial Building"— also is named for the couple. President's Endowed Scholarship But Litterst and Haas weren't the only These three buildings are further testament Carolyn & James J. Benjamin ones to benefit from such generosity. Other to the long-standing assistance the Heeps Patricia Benjamin Memorial Aggies, such as prominent Texas dairy farmer have given to Texas A&M University. Endowed Scholarship And the Texas A&M Foundation Board Carol Ann & Jack L. Benson '63 of Trustees awarded the 2003 Sterling Evans Carol A. &Jack L. Benson '63 President's Endowed Scholarship Medal posthumously to the Heeps, making Josephine F. & Robert R. Berg them the first couple—and Minnie Belle Robert R. &Josephine F. Berg Heep the first female—to receive the award. Endowed Scholarship in Geology & The Evans Medal recognizes those who have Geophysics made outstanding contributions to Texas A&M Jenny S. & J. David Bergin Bequest —Jemy & David Bergin philanthropic efforts through both exemplary Endowed Stephenson Companion giving and volunteer leadership. Animal Lifecare Center Fund/Jenny For decades after her husband's death, & David Bergin Endowed Veterinag Medicine Fund Minnie Belle Heep continued giving to the Glenda Anne Birkhead Texas A&M Foundation, supporting schol- Bequest—Unrestricted arships, library enhancements and other A&M Rosalie R. & Clifton J. Bolner '49 programs. Following her death in 1993, the Heep Rosalie R. & Clifton J. Bolner '49 Foundation provided a $zo million endow- Family Endowed Scholarship in ment for Texas A&M and for Texas A&M Uni- Business versity System agricultural and engineering Richard Bowman Michel T Halbouy Leader Scholarship agencies—at the time one of the largest gifts Jack Kay '42, got their start with help from Elizabeth M. & Linn M. Brady '62 made to a Texas higher education institution. Living Trust—Sul Ross Scholarship the Heeps. In later years, these Aggies would While Litterst says with a laugh that he'll Doris & Glen A. Breaux '52 return the Heeps' generosity in countless ways. never come close to filling his money clip the Gift Annuiy—Unrestricted When Herman Heep became ill in 1960, way Herman Heep did, he cherishes it as a Wanda & James B. Brown '58 Litterst and Haas sat with him around the constant reminder of the couple who gave so Charitable Trust—Texas A&M clock. Litterst likewise kept in touch with much to help him and other Aggies. Foundation—Unrestricted Minnie Belle Heep until her death, calling "Mr. Heep was a little man with a lot of Anabel & Robert M. Bruce '42 her each Christmas Eve. Unitrust—Anabel & Robert M. brains," Litterst said. "He had a lot of polit- Bruce '42 Scholarship in Engineering Litterst— now retired—spent years as ical clout. He was very shrewd—the kind Technology/Charles W Crawford '19 a beef production lecturer in Texas A&M's that would be a good friend or a tough enemy. Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering animal science department. One year Minnie He loved fun and he loved A&M." . Belle Heep gave a $5o,000 endowment to the

Shirif SAIrin rt. n ring George Mitchell '40 is a man on a mission.

Often, it's a big mission of helping researchers Mitchell had been instrumental in the learn about space, looking back more than mid-198os in bringing the construction of 14 billion years. the $7 billion Superconducting Super Col- Sometimes, it's the mission of taking 23 lider (SSC) to Texas. The Houston Advanced credit hours in one semester when he was an Research Center (HARC), which he founded, Aggie engineering undergraduate to finish a worked on the SSC magnet design, along with five-year program in four years. a top Texas A&M physicist, Peter McIntyre. Other times, it's a mission to beat his But this big mission wasn't destined to be. children in tennis. None were able to collect "Peter McIntyre did a lot of work on his $500 wager to top him— a former Aggie the magnet design," Mitchell said. "Congress tennis team captain—before he turned 6o, killed it [the SSC] after they'd already spent despite the fact that he issued the challenge $3 billion out of the $7 billion; they shut it when he was just 40. down, which upset me. But that was the A 1940 petroleum engineering graduate, beginning of my interest in what was going Mitchell made his career in energy and real on in space and the mysteries of space." estate development. The long-time philan- Mitchell and McIntyre remained close. thropist has known considerable success In January 2002, Mitchell called McIntyre to supporting numerous causes, but it was a discuss comments made by Stephen Hawking congressional decision nearly zo years ago that on television. This led to a meeting between would draw him to the Texas A&M physics Mitchell, McIntyre, physics professor Chris program. Pope and physics department head Ed Fry to

HOUSTON PHILANTHROPIST FUELS At6M PHYSICS PHENOMENON Rita A. & Dannie 0. Burk '68 Living Trust—Dannie 0. Burk '68 Endowed Scholarship in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Barbara & George H. W. Bush George Bush School of Government & Public Service

Mary Jane & Carroll 0. Buttrill '38 Planned Gift—Mary Jane & Carroll 0. Buttrill '38 Endowed Fund for Ethics —Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

Charlene T. & Harry D. Cain '50 Gift Annuip — Charlene T. Sc Harry D. Cain '50 Endowed Scholarship— Mays Business School

James J. Cain '51 Mechanical Engineering Excellence Fund

Gloria Caldas CPT Ernesto M. Blanco- Caldas '98 Foundation Excellence Award

Susan J. '82 & Fred F. Caldwell '82 Wayne Etter Real Estate Excellence Fund

Irene & Howard W. Cargill '48 Irene & Howard W. Cargill '48 Endowed Opportunip Award

Pamela M. & Barent W. Cater '77 Pamela M. Sc Barent W. Cater '77 Faculp Fellowship

Kimberly A. '91 & J. Robert Chambers '89 J. Robert Chambers '89 Se Kimberly A. Chambers '91 President's Endowed Scholarship

Sue Clement & Bill P. Cicherski '54 Gift Annuip —Mays School of Business—Unrestricted/Texas A&M Foundation—Unrestricted

Helen & Robert L. Cloud '55 Helen Si. Robert Cloud '55 Scholarship Fund

Jo Ann & Charles M. Cocanougher '53 Dr. Wayne Moore Veterinary Medicine Class of '55 Endowed Scholarship

Vicki P. & Jock R. Collins '54 Jock R. Collins, DVM '57 & Vicki P. Collins, Laura Collins Wilcox '90 & Lorraine Collins Koerner Endowed Scholarship in Veterinary Medicine

Karen E. '82 & Dale A. Cope '82 Planned Gift—Texas A&M Foundation—Unrestricted

Shirit e...chrincr 9nnA. Martha E. Couch Martha E. Couch Fund for Texas A 2002 meeting at the California Institute of Technology 4-H Faculy Professional Development between three Texas A&M physicists, philanthropist George Karen A. '02 & Jerry S. Cox '72 P. Mitchell '40 and Stephen Hawking was a catalyst for Texas A&M Universib, Prospective unparalleled growth in the Department of Physics. From Student Center—Houston Power left (back row) are: Ed Fg, professor and department Center head; Peter McIntyre, professor; and Mitchell. From left Gayle & Kenneth G. Cox '59 (front row): Christopher Pope, professor; and Stephen Bequest—Scholarship Hawking, one of the world's leading theoretical plysicists.

Annette & Larry A. Cress '76 Planned Gift—Petroleum Engineering discuss inviting Hawking to A&M. Mitchell Lydia & Roy L. Cruzen Jr. '77 wanted to meet Hawking. "I was enthralled "THE GEORGE P. AND CYNTHIA W. Living Trust—Scholarship Fund in with Hawking's efforts and what he's done," MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR FUNDA- Veterinag Medicine said Mitchell. So Pope, one of Hawking's for- MENTAL PHYSICS SHOULD BRING Toni Anne & Thomas L. mer students, set a meeting when Hawking was Dashiell '52 WONDERFUL RECRUITS — FACULTY Living Trust—Toni Anne & Thomas at the California Institute of Technology AND STUDENTS — TO TEXAS A 6M. L. Dashiell '52 Leadership "We spent three to four hours with him DURING THE NEXT 10 TO 15 YEARS." Endowment—Corps Leadership Excellence Program/Toni Anne & to convince him to get involved with the Texas Thomas L. Dashiell '52 Lecture A&M Department of Physics," Mitchell said. —George, Mitchell Series — George Bush School of Mission accomplished. Hawking agreed Government & Public Service/Toni Anne & Thomas L. Dashiell General to an arrangement with the physics depart- Mitchell said. "That's a program somebody else Rudder Corps Scholarship ment. It was Hawking who suggested should take on." Roland W. Davie '71 Mitchell's name for the institute that would Another big mission for Mitchell is the Bequest—Scholarship—College of draw top physicists from around the world Giant Magellan Telescope Consortium. His Agriculture to Texas A&M, an institute funded by a gen- $1.75 million contribution on behalf of Texas Shelby & David Dies erous gift from Mitchell. Deepwater Archaeological A&M, matched by the University of Texas at Oceanography Fund "When Hawking says he's going to be Austin, brought both institutions into the

Susan B. & Herman F. there, the world listens," Mitchell said. "He $5oo million effort involving top-ranked Dieterich '50 attracts important people; we had people all research institutions (Harvard, Michigan, Herman & Susan Dieterich Endowed over town buzzing. Hawking is very interested Arizona, Carnegie and MIT). Scholarship—Veterinag Medicine in helping Texas A&M. Weve got a beginning Wendy Freedman, the Carnegie Obser- Cydney C. Donnell '81 Planned Gift—The Association of working with him." vatories astronomer who chairs the telescope Former Students Additionally, The George P. and Cynthia consortium, met with Mitchell, and the phi- Dottie & George E. Douglass '42 W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics lanthropist is now a fan of her work. Dottie & George E. Douglass '42 Sul should bring wonderful recruits—faculty "Wendy Freedman wrote a piece about Ross Scholarship and students—to Texas A&M during the next what the universe is like that everyone should Jack F. Doyle '33 to to 15 years, he said. Gift Annuity—Jack F. Doyle '33 read," Mitchell said. "Dark matter and dark Endowed Scholarship—Architecture Mitchell's service to Texas A&M spans energy—that interests me. If Magellan can

Margaret & Louis C. Draper '42 decades. In the 198os he served as chairman push back the mysteries of space, it's impor- General 0. P. Nyland '23 Sul Ross of Target z000, a long-term plan that led to tant to pursue." Scholarship positive, thoughtful change at Texas A&M. The Hubble Space Telescope, currently Patricia & Mark A. DuLaney '74 Mitchell also has financially supported the best device for probing the unknowns of Living Trust—Patricia & Mark A. DuLaney '74 Sul Ross Scholarship the nationally ranked Department of Petro- space, is hailed as the most important instru- leum Engineering by helping it establish a Mary Lou & John P. Easley ment in physics and astronomy in a quarter Laverne Addison Endowed solid program for recruiting top companies of a century, Mitchell said. However, the Scholarship — Forest Science and students. But he believes he can best Magellan can push time back to times fur- Sandra & P. G. "Buck" Eckels '52 raise the prestige of Texas A&M through the ther than the Hubble's 13.7 billion years. Charitable Remainder Unitrust — physics department. Sandra & P. G. "Buck" Eckels '52 "That's what will fire up young people Endowed Professorship—Mays "Get one of the top engineering grad- to come to Texas A&M," Mitchell said. Business School uates to lead the parade for engineering,"

Texas A&M Foundation jo Victoria M. & Robert T. Edge '58 Internships in Journalism/ Communication

Ann B. & Joseph H. Emmert Jr. '69 Joseph H. Emmert Jr. '69 Endowed Scholarship in Science

Suzanne S. '90 & Stefan M. Evanoff '90 Bequest—Evanoff Scholarships in Mechanical Engineering

Lou & Jack Finney '38 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

Lanatter & Herbert A. Fox '56 Lanatter & Herbert Fox Professorship in Chemical Engineering

Rebecca L. Garcia '98 Life Insurance—Rebecca L. Garcia '98 Endowed Opportuniy Award

Joyce & Robert J. Gary '47 Planned Gift—Robert J. Gag '47 Graduate Assistance Endowment in Agriculture & Life Sciences—Water Sustainable development is another big mis- "I had to work all over the campus to Technology/Robert J. Gag sion for Mitchell, who questions: "If the world Undergraduate Scholarship in stay in, but I had to get out and get started," Agriculture & Life Sciences—Water doesn't work with six billion people, in 50 years, Mitchell said. Technology

how is it going to work with nine billion?" It wasn't all work and no play back then. Rebecca W. & Robert M. Gates His $2.o million contribution to the Despite never having had a tennis lesson ("I Memorial Student Center Opera & National Academy of Sciences led to a four- Performing Arts Society Permanent learned how to play on the wall down in Endowment Fund year study on sustainable development and a Galveston," he said.), Mitchell was on the Erin M. & Richard T. Gayer book on the academy's findings. The work also Aggie tennis team three years and was captain University Special Gifts resulted in a two-generation, 40-year program his senior year. Sandra & James G. Gerace '60 addressing sustainable development. "We got beat half the time; great group. Bequest—James G. Gerace '60 "Texas A&M should be a part of that," It's a great sport; I enjoy it." Scholarship he added. Mitchell has donated $1 million to the Colleen E. & Preston M. Sustainable development, physics, petro- Geren Jr. '45 tennis team for its new facility and addi- Preston M. Geren Jr. '45 Sul Ross leum engineering and Texas A&M almost didn't tional money to develop the women's team. Scholarship have Mitchell. When he graduated from When asked how to encourage giving FE. Giesecke 1886/P.M. Geren '12 high school in 1935, Mitchell's mother wanted by other former students and potential donors, Endowed Scholarship—Architecture him to be a doctor, and he was planning to Mitchell said this: "Texas A&M was a won- Planned Gift—Unrestricted go to Rice University in Houston. He went derful and important part of their lives, and Cynthia E. & H. Jarrell Gibbs '60 Cynthia E. & H. Jarrell Gibbs 'so back to hiah school to take Latin and ended they need to keep firing it up." Corps of Cadets Leadership up working in the oil field to pay his way. The world hears about big missions like Excellence Program "That's when I changed my mind about the Magellan telescope from institutions like Cynthia E. & H. Jarrell Gibbs 'so Rice; I wanted to be a petroleum engineer and Student Conference on National Carnegie, but one day that will change, accord- Affairs Endowment study geology," Mitchell said. ing to Mitchell. Margie & Sam G. Gibbs '54 Once he got to Texas A&M, Mitchell was "As time goes on, more important Gift Annuity — Sam C. Gibbs '54 determined to complete work in petroleum announcements are going to start coming Endowed Unrestricted Fund in engineering and geology in four years, even Mathematics/Texas A&M out of Texas A&M University." o Foundation—Unrestricted though it should have taken five. He admits —by Mike Downey the first couple of years taking 23 hours a semester were hard, and money was a problem.

11 Rhirif rr o g phitanthro Veets Physics

By Mike Downey

The man at the center of the resurgence of the Texas A&M physics department—Depart- ment Head Ed Fry—came to the university almost by accident. Fry hadn't really looked for a job as he neared completion of his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1969. He expected to work at the Ford Research Laboratory in Dearborn. However, a job opening from Texas A&M in experimental atomic physics came to the attention of Peter Franken at Michigan. Franken, the man who had discovered second harmonic generation, was one of Fry's pro- fessors, whom Fry remembered as a great extroverted teacher who sometimes played poker with his students. When Fry showed no interest in the job, Franken talked to Fry's thesis adviser, Bill Williams, who insist- ed Fry make a trip to Texas.

Texas .A&M Foundation 12 Ruth B. & G. M. Gibson Patrick A. & Carol J. Gibson Scholarship in Aerospace Engineering

Susan & E. Eldridge Goins Jr. '62 Elmer Eldridge Gains & Sue Nobles Coins Memorial Sul Ross Scholarship

James C. Goodlett '67 James C. Goodlett '67 Scholarship in Statistics

Bobette '73 & John A. Grant Ill Bequest—Bobette '73 &John Grant III Fund—Agriculture & Life Sciences

Howard L. Gravett Loretta V. & Howard L. Gravett President's Endowed Scholarship

Raymond H. Greene '58 Planned Gift—Unrestricted

Karen M. Gremminger '87 & S. Mark Bullard Karen M. Gremminger '87 & S. Mark Bullard Endowed Scholarship Fund

Sandra R. & Jerry G. Griffith '54 12th Man Foundation

David L. Haberle '40 Gift Annuity—David L. Haberle ' go Fund/Texas A&M Foundation— Unrestricted

Melissa L. & Larry M. Hall Universiy Special Gifts

Camille & Wilton N. Hammond '48 Gift Annuiy—Carnille & Wilton N. Hammond '48—Benson Scholarships in Civil Enginee ng / Texas A&M Foundation — Unrestricted

Patricia & Raymond R. Hannigan '61 Gift Annuiy —Mays College of Business for International Business Studies/Texas A&M Foundation— Unrestricted

Lori S. '87 & Mikal S. Harn '88 Lori '87 & Mikal Harn '88 Endowed Opportunity Award Lori '87 & Mikal Harn '88 General Rudder Corps Scholarship

Vicki E. '79 & Robert W. Harvey '77 Robert W. Harvey '77 & Vicki E. Harvey '79 Corps of Cadets Leadership Excellence Program Endowed Fund President's Board of Visitors

Jan & Mark W. Hassinger '75 Bequests—Scholarships

MNInMMIN=1 12 Shirit S4rintr 2r)OF Kathy & Terry E. Hatchett '68 Jack E. Ogdee '68 Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Mary R. & James A. Heath '40 Gift Annuiy—Mag & Allen Heath '40 Sul Ross Scholarship/Texas A&M Foundation—Unrestricted

Carl F. Henninger Jr. '49 Mildred F. & Carl Henninger '49 Endowed Opportuniy Award Elizabeth A. '80 & Wade E. "I left Michigan and its February slush permanent endowments. He is grateful, a Hilty '80 for College Station with the sun shining and green Elizabeth '8() & Wade Hily '8z) well, for the $9 million in gifts the departmen Endowed Scholarship—Engineering lawns everywhere," Fry recalled. "They made has received from Judy and Dr. Charle Technology me an offer right then, and here I've been." Munnerlyn '62., the Heep Foundation anc Cynthia L. & Jerry F. Earl Rudder was president of Texas A&M, other sources. The latter includes a total o Holditch '79 and it was a time of great change for the school Cindy L. &Pro, F. Holditch '79 more than $313,000 in gifts from about Endowed Scholarship— Geosciences —primarily the admission of women and quarter of the present members of thi Ann & Stephen A. Holditch '69 the end of mandatory Corps of Cadets duty. physics faculty—an impressive showing Ann & Steve Holditch Fellowship in Fry never expected to be serving in such Many gifts have been a direct consequence o Petroleum Engineering an instrumental role in the transformation matches to the Mitchell gifts. Billie & Asa Holleman '49 of the Department of Physics. After a search "We've leveraged George's tremendou. Charitable Trust—President's Endowed Scholarship committee failed to find a suitable candidate help to create a considerable nestegg fo to head the department in zooI, Fry said Dis- Debbie & Michael R. Houx '73 physics," Fry said. "George likes people whe Debbie & Mike Houx '73 Learn ng tinguished Professor of Physics Marlan Scully help themselves." Endowment came to talk to him. This financial support has helped breath( Bruce Howorth "Marlan twisted my arm and the faculty new life into the pursuit of a long-standit-4 Bequest—Alberta & Bruce Howorth voted for me, so I became department head," Endowed Scholarship departmental interest in developing ar Fry said, smiling. astronomy program—an academic absenc( Brenda W. & Dan A. Hughes '51 Dan A. Hughes '51 Chair in The beginning of the physics depart- that became more glaring in 1997 in the wak( Geosciences ment's revitalization came after a phone call of an external review of the department. Margaret & Aubrey Irby from philanthropist George Mitchell ' 40 to "The reviewers were struck by the faci Gift Annui i— Unrestricted Peter McIntyre, an A&M physics professor, to that the university had no research effort ir Kathleen A. Jennings-Mills '78 discuss internationally famed physicist Stephen astrophysics or astronomy," Fry said, and thc & William C. Mills Hawking. At Fry's suggestion, McIntyre Patricia & Thomas Jennings, department had no positions to launch Kathleen Jennings-Mills '78 & returned the call to Mitchell and set up a program. William Mills President's Endowed meeting that included Fry and Chris Pope, That changed in 2003 when Texas A&M Scholarship also a physics professor. Pope, a former student President Robert Gates announced the uni- Marilyn & George Jewell of Hawking's, arranged a meeting between Bequest—Frances & Miles Hall '39 versity was hiring 450 new faculty members Scholarship—Agriculture & Life Hawking, Mitchell, Fry, McIntyre and Pope. "I asked our science dean, Joe Newton Sciences/George & Marilyn Jewell At that meeting, Hawking agreed to speak at for four new faculty positions in astronomy Scholarship—Mechanical Engineering/ Texas A&M, and Mitchell funded the insti- George 8c Marilyn Jewell Fellowship and he approved all four," Fry said. But he —Mechanical Engineering tute that now bears his name and two chairs, realized the department would need assistance Allison & David A. Johnson '87 one in honor of Hawking. to build a top-ranked astronomy program. Life Insurance-12th Man The department's resulting relationships "I knew about Mitchell's interest in Foundation/Corps of Cadets/Texas with both Hawking and Mitchell have been A&M Foundation—Unrestricted astronomy, so I went back to him for help in a boon for Texas A&M physics. Jean P. & Orville E."Skip" forming an advisory committee," Fry said. Johnson Jr. '52 Fry is thankful for the millions Mitchell That help came in the form of a $15,00c Charitable Remainder Unitrust— already has donated to the department in check in 2003, which enabled the physics Jean & Skip Johnson '52 President's support of chairs, professorships and other Endowed Scholarship/Jean & Skip department to assemble a prestigious commit- Johnson '52 Sul Ross Scholarship

Texas A&M Foundation 14 Holly H. & Eric D. Johnston '77 Holly H. & Eric D. Johnston '77 Endowed Opportuniy Award

Donald G. Kaspar '49 Class of '49 General Rudder Corps Scholarship " a Gloria M. & James L. Knutson '55 C OPS Jim Knutson '55 Scholarship Fund— C.D. Holland Scholars Program— along with McIntyre and Scully, to creatively Chemical Engineering EV1/K 'F„ a combine financial resources from Munnerlyn, Robert & Marlene Kokernot Mitc -e[[ -ave bee the Heep Foundation and even university University Library funding through A&M's vice president for Mary Jo '78 & Billy G. Lay '53 boo for Texas A&U Bily G. & Mary Jo Lay Endowed research, Dr. Richard Ewing. Scholarship— College of Education p-ysics. "We took the plan to George, and he & Human Development sent a $1 million check to the Foundation," Ann & Robert C. Leitz III '69 Fry said. "We now have the George P. Mitchell Bequest— College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science tee of National Academy of Sciences members '40 Endowed Chair in Experimental Physics, and Nobel laureates to advise the department. and in addition, we have a second chair as a Sheryl L. & David J. Lesar Its advice to build a top-ranked program Dean's Endowed Excellence Fund— result of this gift from George." Mays School of Business & Graduate included the creation of eight positions in The additional research chairs and Studies astronomy and involvement in a major astro- increased support benefit the department by Sara H. & John H. Lindsey '44 nomy research project. giving it (and Texas A&M) more attention Sara & John H. Lindsey '44 Arts & Humanities Fund—University Press For the major project, Fry elected to join that draws quality professors and quality Sara H. Lindsey Chair in the George a consortium building the Giant Magellan students—and even more support, Fry said. Bush School of Government & Public Telescope, a $5oo million effort involving "We have a Nobel laureate, Dudley Service influential research institutions, such as the Herschbach, joining our faculty," Fry said. Lenora K. & Robert R. Locke '49 University of Michigan, the University ofTexas "Two of the top young physicists in the world, Gift Annuiy— Lenora K. & Robert R. Locke '49 Endowed Scholarship— at Austin, Harvard University, the Carnegie sisters Katrin and Melanie Becker, are coming Chemical Engineering/Lenora K. Institution, the University of Michigan and here together from the University of Utah & Robert R. Locke '4,9 Endowed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scholarship—Petroleum Engineering/ and the University of Maryland, respectively" Lenora K. & Robert R. Locke '49 He talked with Dr. Wendy Freedman, the Fry adds the Becker sisters will be part- Endowment—Mays School of Business Carnegie Observatories astronomer who time this first year, since they were selected Margo Wilson London chairs the telescope consortium. They then as Radcliffe scholars and will spend most of Arthur McFarland (1905) met with Mitchell. the next year at Harvard. Professorship —Engineering "George said he'd donate $1.75 million Last fall, the Mitchells announced a $35 Mary T. & Albert M. Loudon '57 Charitable Remainder Unitrust for Texas A&M's participation, but that was million commitment toward construction of two contingent on the University of Texas match- Darlyne & Al Lowman campus buildings for physics—the largest gift Universiy Library ing that amount, which it did," Fry said. thus far under Texas A&M's One Spirit One Marguerite Bernice Luehrs Bringing Texas A&M and the University Vision Campaign—and the most generous Bequest— Corps of Cadets of Texas together is just one example of the ever made to the university by a living donor. Carolyn A. Marks '81 challenges Mitchell undertakes. "All these things give Texas A&M and Planned Gift—George C. Marks '50 Fry answered another challenge when physics a high profile," Fry said. Endowed Opportunity Award Mitchell wished to establish an endowed chair The department has always drawn qual- Pat & Fred L. May Ill '68 for Fry. He came up with a plan: If Mitchell Bequest— Fred & Patricia May ity international students, and the increased Scholarship Fund for the Singing Cadets would donate $1 million to create the chair, visibility will continue to bring them in and Fry would find matching funds. The honor attract additional strong graduate students of holding the Mitchell chair motivated Fry, from around the country, Fry said.

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0') EVIDENCE OF HERMAN HEEP'S ith fiinding from the Mitchell-Heep Chair _LE2ACY ABOUNDS AT TEXAS AtIM Lynda K. & A. Dwain in Experimental High-Energy Physics, Mayfield ' 59 Professor Peter M. McIntyre created "Visual By Mike Downey Lynda K. & A. Dwain Mayfield '59 Physics, - a creative way to teach first-year Scholarships — Engineering physics to Texas A&M students. Lynda K. & A. Dwain Mayfield '59 Study Abroad Scholarship The late Herman Heep '20 is still around, in a way, working with famed physicist Stephen Dorothy & Arthur R. McFerrin Jr. '65 Hawking to help solve the mysteries of the Jeff McFerrin ' 92 universe. Artie McFerrin Fund—Chemical As a legendary A&M supporter, Heep has Engineering been more than "present" for nearly a century Reba & Kenneth R. McGee '60 Reba & Kenneth R. McGee 'so Sul now, though he died in 1960. His wife, Minnie Ross Scholarship Belle, made her own mark in Aggieland dur- Shirley Reese & Dan L. ing three decades until her death in 1993. McGurk '47 Together, the Heeps exemplified the concept Charitable Trust—Corps of Cadets of supporting your alma mater. Paula Bowdoin McRoberts Today, their Heep Foundation—par- Marion H. Bowdoin Memorial Sul Ross Scholarship ticularly the Heep Matching Funds program Connie K. '79 & Bobby J. —continues to sustain Texas A&M in mar- Miller '76 velous ways even they might never have Life Insurance-12th Man imagined. Foundation/The Association of Former Students/Texas A&M The beauty of a matching funds program Foundation like the one managed by the Heep Founda- Lisa Jean & George G. Miller '80 tion lies in its ability to double a gift, thereby Gift Annuity—Lisa J. & George G. elevating it to produce a lasting impact among Miller '80--The Association of Former Students Endowment/Lisa Texas A&M faculty and students. J. & George G. Miller 'so Endowed The renaissance of the Texas A&M Professorship—Biology/Lisa J. Department of Physics is linked to the power & George G. Miller '80 Endowed Scholarship—Biology of matching funds. The generosity of donors Cynthia W. & George P. like George P. Mitchell '40 and Charles A. Mitchell ' 40 Munnerlyn '62 has been enhanced with Stephen E. Harris Professorship — matching funds from the Heep Foundation Quantum Optics to create endowed chairs, fellowships and Cynthia W. & George P. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics scholarships. George P. Mitchell '40 Chair— Experimental Physics

A STELLAR START George P. Mitchell '40 Post- Pre-eminent physicist Stephen Hawking drew Doctoral Fellowship —Astronom_y a full house at the first month-long meeting Mitchell/Heep Chair—Experimental High Energ Physics

of The George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair— Institute for Fundamental Physics in 2003. Experimental Optical & Biomedical The endowed institute, born from George Physics Mitchell's $1 million gift, will continue bring- Erma Lee & Luke E. Mooney Gift Annuiy—Texas A&M Universiy ing the world's top physicists to Texas A&M at Galveston to promote collaboration and further insight Gyi Annuiy —Texas A&M into the universe. Foundation—Unrestricted The Mitchells also donated another $1 million to endow the Stephen Hawking Chair in Fundamental Physics, an amount matched by the university to create a $2 million chair, the largest at Texas A&M at the time.

1'7 Robbie Anne & Thomas C. Morris III '62 Robbie & Thomas C. Morris III '62 Endowed Fund—English Department Robbie & Thomas C. Morris III '62 Excellence Fund—English Department

Judith & Charles R. Munnerlyn '62 Munnerlyn/Heep Chair—Quantum Optics Though none of these significant events TR I PLE PLAY Charitable Remainder Unitrust— Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Endowed were a result of matching gifts from the Heep Texas A&M biomed- Chair—Observational Astronomy/ Foundation, they marked the start of an extra- ical physics professor Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Endowed Career Enhancement Professorship — ordinary wave of philanthropic activity in the Hans Schuessler is Physics/Charles R. '62 and Judith College of Science that inspired future gifts world-renowned for G. Munnerlyn Endowed Fund— from Heep for physics-related projects. Physics research he's conduct- ed in countries includ- Lauren D. Murphy '85 & A CHAIR OF HIGH ENERGY Michael J. Baker '85 ing Japan, Germany, Lauren Murphy '85 & Michael The work ofTexas A&M's Dimitri Nanopoulos Switzerland, the United States and Canada. Baker '85 Dean's Endowed is cited in more scientific writings than all His desire to further research efforts hen Scholarship—Accounting/Finance but three other high-energy physicists the among his Texas A&M colleagues led him tc Jack H. Murray Jr. '42 world over. An A&M distinguished professor, Bequest—Col. Jack H. Murray '42 make a gift to the Texas A&M Foundation thai Endowed Fund Nanopoulos is the first holder of the Mitchell- eventually helped endow a chair in Texas A&M'; William L. Murray '51 Heep Chair in High-Energy Physics. physics department. Life Insurance—Dr. William Lee That endowed chair A gift from George P. Mitchell anc Murray '51 Endowed Veterinapi was created with a Medicine Scholarship matching funds from the Heep Foundatior s5oo,000 gift from William E. Nash '36 created the Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair ir Charitable Remainder Unitrust— the Mitchells and a Experimental Optical and Biomedical Physics William E. Nash '36 Endowment— ssoo,000 Heep Foun- Schuessler's gift also honored his late firsi Architecture/William E. Nash '36 dation match. General Rudder Corps Scholarship wife, Renate, and his wife, Zohreh. Schuesslei Nanopoulos has was appointed to the chair that bears his nam( Patricia & L. C. "Chaz" Neely Jr. '62 pledged to match the in July 2004. T. Elliott & All son Neely Brown '90 quality of his research with the generosity of General Rudder Corps Scholarship both donors. NOT LASER L I TE Noelle & Bradford Kyle Neely '94 General Rudder Corps Scholarship Charles A. Munnerlyn '62 has always beer FOR THE GRAD STUDENTS Trisha & L.C. "Chaz" Neely '62 fascinated with anything to do with optics one General Rudder Corps Scholarship Two gifts by Texas A&M mathematics pro- lenses: eyeglasses, telescopes, cameras. Hi; Life Insurance—Trisha L.C. fessor Carl Pearcy '55, matched by funds from invention of the excimer laser created anc "Chaz" Neely Jr. '62 Endowed the Heep Foundation, have endowed a fel- Chair — Business revolutionized laser corrective eye surgery. lowship for two graduate students in math- Audrey Calais & James K. B. Munnerlyn and his wife, Judy, donatec Nelson '49 ematics. $3 million to the university in a charitablt Charitable Remainder Unit rust— Pearcy's motivation for his gift was to trust that benefits both the Munnerlyns one Texas A&M Foundation recognize his former math teachers and friends the university. Some funding already is goirlE Sarah & Ray B. Nesbitt '55 —R.E. Basye, E.R. Keown, E.C. Klipple and toward two chairs in physics. Ray B. Nesbitt Endowment for Faculy Excellence—Chemical N.W. Naugle—who spent more than a com- Matching funds from George P. Mitchel Engineering bined ioo years on the A&M faculty. and the Heep Foundation eventually createc Ray B. Nesbit Fund—Engineering "This fellowship is a way to honor their a $2 million endowed chair: the Mitchell- dedication to the mathematics department Heep-Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Obser- and to Texas A&M," Pearcy said. vational Astronomy.

Texas A&M Foundation 18 Lynda P. & C. Craig Noonan '66 Bequest—lath Man Foundation/ Lynda & C. Craig Noonan '66 Endowed Aggie Band Fund/Lynda & C. Craig Noonan '66 Endowed Corps of Cadets Fund

Lynda & C. Craig Noonan '66 Sul Ross Scholarship

Judith A. & John W. Norman Jr. '73 The $1 million Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn The Heep Foundation matched a gift Bequest—Judith A. Se John W. Norman Jr. '73 Endowed Endowed Career Enhancement Professorship/ from McIntyre's long-time friend, George P. Scholarship — Entomology Chair in Physics, which is aimed at attract- Mitchell '40, to create the endowed Mitchell- John M. Oglesby '51 ing junior faculty members, also was created Heep Chair in Experimental High-Energy Planned Gift—John M. Oglesby '51 with matching funds from the named donors. Physics to be held by the inventor/physicist. General Rudder Corps Scholarship McIntyre's abilities extend beyond re- Dorothy S. & George W. CHA IR FOR PHYS I C I ST Ohlendorf '60 search into teaching. He has also created "Visual Bequest—Texas A&M Foundat on— AND INVENTOR Physics," an improved method of teaching Unrestricted

Texas A&M physics professor Peter M. McIntyre first-year physics to Texas A&M students. Susan M. '74 & William R. has been developing a process to generate Ouren '74 Charles A. Munnerlyn '62 started building telescopes Bequest—Susan M. & William R. electricity from nuclear fission that bypasses in middle school. Known as the founding father of laser- Ouren Scholarship concerns related to nuclear reactors. McIntyre vision correction, he gifted a $ 3 million charitable remainder unitrust to fund an endowed chair in obser- Margaret B. & Robert N. also invented efficient high-power electron Palm '65 vational astronomy, an endowed career enhancement beam technology that can destroy industrial Margaret & Robert N. Palm '65 professorship in physics, and an endowed fund for Student Assistance Program toxins and lethal food bacteria. programs and activities in the Department of Physics. Janie & Willie J. Parks '58 Gift Annuiy—Janie & Willie J. Parks Endowed Fund—Corps of Cadets/Texas A&M Foundation— Unrestricted

Linn N. Powell University Special Gifts

Cathy L. '77 & Randall C. Present '77 Cathy '77 Se Randall Present '77 Real Estate Excellence Fund

Anny McKeown Prior & David B. Prior Bequest—Anny McKeown Prior & David Baxter Prior Endowed Fund— Geosciences

Eva & Mike Quearry Bequest—Robert Eric Luten '72 President's Endowed Scholarship/ Eva & Michael Quearg President's Endowed Scholarship

Rebecca M. '76 & Mark E. Quinn '75 Rebecca Quinn '76 Sr Mark E. Quinn '75 Endowed Scholarship— Animal Science

13 Spirit o Spring 2006 hawkirrig's [hEnchman]

Endowed Chair Allows Texas A&M Physicist to Explore String Theory

BY MIKE DOWNEY

heoretical physicist Christopher Pope enjoys the challenge of his job: to discover the basic fundamental laws governing the world we live in. Pope holds the Stephen Hawking Chair in Fundamental Physics at Texas A&M Uni- versity. The $2 million chair was part of a gift in 2002 from George P. Mitchell '40. Texas A&M matched Mitchell's gift with $1 mil- lion in Available University Funds. Pope was a Ph.D student who studied under Hawking at Cambridge University Working with Hawking helped him develop his approach to physics, Pope said. Hawking, though in a wheelchair and unable to write due to motor neuron disease— was able to see things so much more clearly than others, Pope said. Others got bogged down in complicated calculations and would "lose sight of the essential simplicity that often underlies a complex-looking problem," Pope said. But not Hawking.

Texas A&M Foundation 20 Betty R. & Lee R. Radford '53 Charitable Remainder Annuiy— Bety R. & Lee R. Radford, MD '53 Corps of Cadets Academics Endowed Fund/Bety R. & Lee R. Radford, MD '53 Corps of Cadets Leadership Excellence Program Endowed Fund/Bety R. & Lee R. Radford, MD '53 Corps of Cadets Scholarship Endowed Fund

Judy & Donald R. Ray '68 Judy K. & Donald R. Ray '68 President's Endowed Scholarship

Joan C. Read Dean of Veterinag Medicine Prioriy Fund

Thomas A. Read Center Activities Fund Thomas & Joan Read Fund— Disadvantaged Youth

Perry D. Reed '76 Perry D. Reed '76 Endowed Scholarship—Mays Business School

Robin & John K. Rinehart '80 Survey Camp Endowment— C vil Engineering

Austin W. Roberts '41

Bequest—Ruth D. EC Au stin W Roberts '41 Endowed Opportuniy

Awards/Ruth D. EC Austin W Roberts '41 Sul Ross Scholarships Ruth D. Roberts Memorial Corps of Cadets Leadership Excellence Program Endowment

Andrew W. Rogers '39 & Janice Rogers Brig. Gen. Andrew W. Rogers '39 Corps of Cadets Leadership Excellence Program

Martha & Albert W. Rollins '51 Elizabeth R. Yaggi '83 & Mark Rollins '94 Scholarship—Civil Engineering

Rollins Family Fellowship for Civil Engineering Education

Florence & Rollins S. Rubsamen '55 Bequest—Bitsy & Rollins Rubsamen '55 Excellence Fund

Eleen & John Lindsley Ruth '92 Mag & Ridley M. Ruth '58 President's Endowed Scholarship

Martha W. '85 & Thomas A. Selzer '84 William E. Wheeler '46 Endowed Lifelines Scholarship —Biology

Harold C. Schade '67 Planned Gift—Col. Tom & Sue Mathews Endowed Scholarship— Oceanography Kristi Kay & John D. Schiller Jr. '81 "This led me to try, not always with suc- a general desire to encourage fundamenta Kristi & John D. Schiller '81 cess, to look always for simple ways of solving physics," Pope said. Scholarship Fund—Petroleum One of the things that impressec Engineering problems," Pope said. Hawking also taught me to never give Hawking the most when he met Mitchell wa Zohreh & Hans Schuessler a common regret, Pope said. They both shar Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair— up, no matter what the difficulties, Pope said. Experimental Optical & Biomedical Hawking's ability to continue working despite a deep disappointment in the congressiom Physics his own immense physical difficulties is inspir- cancellation of the $7 billion Superconduci Otto F. Schumm '45 ing, he added. ing Super Collider (SSC) in the 198os. Planned Gift—Undergraduate & "Stephen could recognize George wq- Graduate Scholarships— Chemistg Because today's science often is a col- genuinely committed to fostering fundament George W. Seagraves II '80 laborative effort, having an endowed chair Michael D. Murphy Endowed makes doing the job he loves easier. Despite physics in Texas, so these things combine Scholarship—Landscape Archi ecture technological advances, Pope maintains the to make it a natural thing for Stephen to len Kay & Winston G. Sexton '54 best way to start a research project in theo- his support," Pope said. Kay & Winston G. Sexton '54 Pope explains theoretical physics as o Endowed Scholarship — Geosciences retical physics is to discuss things face-to- effort to find a unified and consistent tiler), Ruby & Earle A. Shields Jr. '41 face, Pope said. of the four fundamental forces in nature Earle A. Shields '41 Endowed "Now I can bring scientific collaborators Scholarship—Mays Business School to visit Texas A&M, which is more productive electromagnetism, weak and strong nude Sondra G. & Ronald L. than any other method, and I can support forces and gravitation. Skaggs '65 my own travel to visit colleagues elsewhere," The first three are unified in what's call( Life Insurance—The Association the standard model theory, based on quantu of Former Students/Corps of Cadets/ Pope said. Traveling Undergradauate Student Pope noted that just last year at The mechanics. Gravity is described by Einsteij Scholarships/Traveling Graduate theory of general relativity. Student Fellowships—Architecture George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics-sponsored confer- "The problem comes when we try Janis M. & Charles S. unify the standard model and Einstein's r Skillman Jr. '57 ence on strings and cosmology, he and three Charitable Remainder Unitrust— collaborators were able to solve a major prob- ativity into a grand 'theory of everything College of Engineering—Unrestricted/ Pope said. "All the methods that work so w Faculy Support—College of lem due to face-to-face interactions. The for unification go awry when we try to inclu Engineering/Janis M. & Charles institute brought together Canadis Don Page, Skillman Jr. '57 Scholarship— a former Hawking post-doctoral student Pope gravity as well." Engineering worked with 25 years ago, and the United Right now the best theory for combini Colleen G. Slaughter Kingdom's Gary Gibbons, Hawking's first quantum mechanics and general relativit) Keith R. Slaughter Endowed string theory. More subtle and intricate d Scholarship Ph.D. student. anything before it, string theory draws on Jean G. & Charles B. Smith Jr. "As a result of the face-to-face get- Endowed Fund for Excellence— together, we started a four-person collaboration kinds of branches of mathematics and phys Agricultural Development of Gary, Don, our brilliant Hong Lu [Pope's he added. James N. Smith '49 graduate student] and me," Pope said. "Over "In string theory, nature has handec Living Trust—President's Endowed a wonderful playground of ideas, which se Scholarship a period of three weeks, we constructed the to head toward a solution to the greatest cl J. Malon Southerland '65 exact solutions for rotating black holes in arbi- lenge in physics: unifying the fundame, Planned Gift—Dr. J. Malon trary space-time dimensions." Southerland '65 Vice President for The Hawking chair also allows Pope to forces of nature," Pope said. Student Affairs Emeritus Quality String theory tries to solve the puz of Student Life Endowment pay for a post-doctoral colleague at Texas A&M, which greatly enhances his level of research. of nature using complex techniques and John H. Speer '71 mulas beyond those used in early zoth-cen Carlton D. Stolle Endowed Faculty Hawking's involvement with Texas Fellowship—Mays School of Business A&M's physics department was a combination physics, Pope said. "Understanding Real Estate Program of two things. remarkable and beautiful theory is Deborah W. '76 & Ronald G. "Stephen's involvement in the Mitchell immense task," he added, "but it's one ol Spies '73 things that makes it so exciting to wor Life Insurance—The Association of Institute is a combination of a desire to help Former Students —Jeremy J. Spies a former student of his—me—together with this field." '97 Memorial Fund David W. Spinks '75 Gift Annuiy— Unrestricted

Bridget & Joseph G. Sprague '70 Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA &Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA Chair—Health Facilities Design

James P. '55 & Dorothy Staehs Living Trust—Texas A&M Foundation—Unrestricted

Julia W. Stark Living Trust—Charles L. &Julia W. Stark Endowed Fund—College of Veterinag Medicine & Biomedical Science

Claudia & Roderick D. Stepp '59 Planned Gift—Eternal Aggie Band Fund/Claudia & Rod Stepp '59 Corps Scholarships/Claudia & Rod Stepp Dance Excellence Fund/ Claudia & Rod Stepp '59 Endowed Opportuniy Awards

Martha F. & Gerald R. Still '58 Gift Annuity—Texas A&M Foundation—Unrestricted Nobel Physics Laureate Chen Ning Yang. Shirley & Joseph B. zhiwEi Swinbank '74 "Yang was very math-oriented, which I Joe Swinbank '74 Endowed Rural liked, and I found Dr. Pope in the United Entrepreneurship Seminar Series {chi yrig} States also was math-oriented in his work," Virginia & M. A. Taylor Jr. '48 Chong said. Bequest—The Association of Former Students for M. A. Taylor Memorial Theoretical physics is an exciting field, Endowed Scholarship especially when you're faced with problems Carole C. & Van H. Taylor '71 that seem incredibly complicated, Chong said. Ann &Jim A Student Profile Cunningham '42 General He has learned from Pope that determination Rudder Corps Scholarship can lead to answers. Often, Pope has helped Joan P. & James G. Teer '50 hiwei Chong had offers from seven crack those problems with solutions that are Bequest—Joan &James G. Teer '50 President's Endowed Scholarship American universities when he simple once they are revealed, he said. Mary L. "Capper" & Terry decided to leave his native China to "It seems magical; it's just beautiful to Thompson pursue doctoral studies. see a problem collapse down to the simple Charitable Trust—Veterinag "Dr. Christopher Pope at Texas A&M solution that you want to see," Chong said. Medicine Continuing Education was my first choice because he was the best When asked if he used the laboratory Sharon & Jack M. Threadgill '63 in the field I wanted to work in." Gift Annuiy—Sharon &Jack to test out his theories, Chong just tapped Threadgill Endowment—Corps Chong, whose research is supported the side of his head: "My lab's up here." of Cadets

through Pope's endowed chair, is finishing his Bettie & M. Frank Thurmond '51 fifth year with Pope and plans to complete Gift Annuiy— Unrestricted his Ph.D. next year. Donald Warne Vanderpool The son of a nuclear engineer who Veterinag Medicine Scholarship Veterinag Teaching Hospital worked on China's nuclear program, Chong Zh iwei Chong left China to study string theory with had a different career path than his father. Texas A&M Professor of Physics Christopher Pope. The Happy B. '92 & Patrick R. Von Dohlen Sr. '92 two are working under the Stephen Hawking Chair in Although he attended the same university as Life Insurance—The Association of Fundamental Physics, part of a $1 million gift made by his father as an undergraduate, he was attract- Former Students George P. Mitchell '4(:). which was matched by the ed to theoretical physics through talks by Available University Fund.

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ELLIS AND HEEP FELLOWSHIPS FUND STUDENTS' DREAMS

BY DORIAN MARTIN '07

Dallas' native son has something in common with a daughter of China. Both seleded Texas A&M University to further their education for similar reasons—a sense of community, affordability and opportunity.*

And thanks to the spirit of giving back, Irving oilman Shi's decision to focus her studies on public policy J. Ralph Ellis Jr. and his wife, Joy, are providing the stems from her experience of teaching English in a financial support through the Joy and Ralph Ellis '52,/ Chinese private school. Initially; she planned to focus on Heep Endowed Graduate Fellowship that is enabling educational policy, but her professional plans are chang- Zhendi Shi to attend the Bush School of Government ing. Shi spent the summer interning with the County of and Public Service. San Diego Department of Public Works. She worked The "family feeling" she found at Texas A&M is with her supervisor to develop flow charts of the neces- exactly why Shi decided to attend the Bush School. When sary processes to receive a county building permit. Shi she interviewed as part of the admissions process in 2003, also assisted in analyzing these processes to improve effi- she already felt the supportive environment. That view ciency. "I can apply this knowledge to help my country" hasn't changed. "I really like the school," she said. "I feel Shi said. like they [the administration, faculty, staff and students] Upon graduation in May, Shi will rejoin her hus- really care. It's a family. You can find your place here." band, who is in a doctoral program in California. With two Shi is so impressed by the Bush School that she has sub- graduate students in the family; the Ellis/Heep Fellowship mitted an article to an on-line forum at her alma mater, has been crucial. "Almost everything is covered by the Fudan University; to encourage other Chinese students fellowship," Shi explained. "Otherwise, it would have been to apply. impossible for me to attend a school in the United States."

Q g' onnC Corenna & Dale Walker Harvey Soefje '59 Endowed For the zoo5-o6 academic term, Larsor Opportunity Award Esther Larson 'o6 will serve as the president of the Bush Schoon Fred G. Walsh '74 Esther Larson found her calling during a fam- Fred G. Walsh '74 Scholarship — ily move. When her sister was accepted at the Public Service Organization. In that role, sh( Petroleum Engineering Bush School of Government and Public Serv- is leading classmates in a capstone projecl Christina T. Warren '84 ice, the family helped with the transition to that will provide tailored assistance in evalu- Christi Warren DVM '84 Endowed ating the efforts of a non-profit organization Enhancement Fund —Veterinag College Station. "I got my first impression of Medicine the school when we drove up and I saw the Larson continues to explore the direc-

Margaret Didi & Alan Weinblatt quote on the Bush Library's exterior wall tion her life will take after graduation. She Bequest —Weinblatt Dog Stevenson about freedom. Then I walked into the build- contemplating a career with an international Companion Animal Life Care Center non-governmental organization. Her creden- Endowed Fund ing and saw the bust of former President Bush with the quote about public service," Larson tials include teaching English in France, Chin2 Cora Jane & H. Fritz Welsch and Afghanistan, as well as volunteering in Jr. '53 remembered. "I realized then that I have a pas- Cora Jane & H. Fritz Welsch Jr. '53 sion for public service. I had found my calling." Turkey, Nepal, Korea, Oman, Vietnam, Zim- General Rudder Corps Scholarship That calling almost went unanswered. Ron E. Whitley Debt accrued from her first master's degree Dean of Veterinag Medicine Priority Fund hindered Larson's ability to pay the addi-

Donna & William M. Wilder tional tuition. She applied to the Bush School William M. Wilder Excellence anyway, but then journeyed to France to Fund —Anthropology teach English. A few months later, a letter Charles A. Williams '37 from the Bush School crossed the Atlantic Charles A. Williams '37 Endowed Student Scholarship Fund— George Ocean. Opening the letter, Larson found that Bush School of Government & Public she had been accepted; furthermore, she had Service been selected to receive the Robert M. Gates/ Jane & R. Ken Williams '45 Heep Endowed Graduate Fellowship, which Jane & R. Ken Williams '45 Endowed Excellence Fund — would fully pay her way. "It was a miracle. I Geosciences knew this (opportunity) was supposed to be

Louise Motyl Wilson & Forrest since everything fell into place," Larson said. C. Wilson Jr. Created by Joy and J. Ralph Ellis Jr. '52, Gifi Annuip,— College of Veterinag the fellowship honors Texas A&M University and Biomedical Science/Texas AScM Foundation—Unrestricted President Robert Gates, who was serving as

Sandra Hay Wilson the Bush School's interim dean at the time. Arthur McFarland (1905) "Dr. Gates has been an integral part of the Professorship—Engineering Bush School, and we wanted to make sure Shirley & William A. Wood Jr. '59 he had a legacy with the students," said Bequest — Scholarships Ralph Ellis. "When they decided to put the Jane Caveness Woodard Testamentag Trust—Unrestricted Bush Library at Texas A&M University, we thought it was a big accomplishment for the Mollie S. & Henry B. Zachry Jr. '54 university, so we wanted to do something to President's Board of Visitors help the Bush School flourish." Margaret Ann Zipp With less than a year remaining until LTG Charles W Zipp, USA (Ret.) graduation, Larson is taking full advantage Corps Endowment of this experience. During the summer of 2005, she interned in the White House office for the USA Freedom Corps, where she learned how government can assist in mobilizing vol- unteers to benefit community programs.

Texas )18,M Foundation 26 I jurings the j sumdmer off .1. 99d9, ose ens on a road trip from California to Massachusetts. This jaunt wasn't the typical teenage adventure, since Sosa and his friends were budding entrepreneurs. The trio viewed their journey as an opportunity to make things happen. The three formed a company and began working with a Boston nightclub to host weekend events. Their dreams continued to develop, and they would not take "no" for an answer. More brainstorming led to the idea of coordinating, market- ing and executing a concert. Sosa and his friends approached Geffen Records to discuss participation by a nationally known hip-hop band, Wu-Tang Clan. "The band's record company asked, 'Who are you kids?' We were all 19- to zo-year-old kids," the California native remembered. "We built business plans and con- tacted investors. And the artists def- initely respected that we were young." Their vision, combined with keen attention to multiple details, resulted in a successful concert in August of 1999 that drew approxi- mately z,soo fans and earned net income of $32,500. Fast-forward to the summer of zoos as Sosa plans his next road trip. The zs-year-old is leaving his S S A'S

BP Corporation North America Inc. Tulsa, Oklahoma "Gifts like the Neely Fellow- Mays Business School Dean Jerry Center for Human Resource ship are a great example of Strawser '83. "Thanks to the Neelys' Management the 'Aggie Miracle,' where generosity, we were fortunate to Burlington Resources Foundation former students affect the attract such a talented young man Houston, Texas ability of future generations to our business school for his gradu- Burlington Resources Research to receive a great education ate studies. Gifts like the Neely/Heep Laboratog Fund at Texas University." Fellowship are a great example of Robert C. Byrd Scholarship Austin, Texas the 'Aggie Miracle,' where former Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships —JERRY STRAWSER '83 students affect the ability of future The Cain Foundation generations to receive a great edu- Austin, Texas cation at Texas A&M University." Cain Boot & Sabre Program Endowment apartment two blocks from the Neely found the use of match- beach in Santa Monica, Calif, to ing fimds especially attractive. "I like Capital City A&M Club Foundation embark on a new adventure. The supporting endowments because Austin, Texas roadmap by which he is charting his they are continuous funding and Capital Ciy A&M Club Scholarships entrepreneurial future will bring are not subject to the same budget ChevronTexaco him to Texas A&M University's Mays issues that colleges often face," he Concord, California Texaco Fellowships—Geology Business School, where he will receive said. "The Heep Foundation's com- the Tricia and L. C. "Chaz" Neely Circle B Miniature Horses mitment to offering matching fund- Joshua, Texas Jr. '62/ Heep Graduate Fellowship ing for this endowed fellowship Texas Agricultural Experiment to support his studies in real-estate provides the opportunity for inter- Station investment. ested individuals and corporations ConocoPhillips Sosa's journey to Texas A&M Houston, Texas to creatively support Texas A&M." Chemical Engineering Endowed Fund puts him on a path similar to that Sosa appreciates the support ConocoPhillips Foundation of his benefactor. "Attending Texas that the endowment will provide. "It Excellence Award A&M had a profound influence on is an honor to receive the fellowship," ConocoPhillips Spirit Scholars the rest of my life," said L. C. "Chaz" he said. "It will definitely help me pay Petroleum Engineering Department Fund Neely Jr. '62, who now serves as the for college without taking out any Phillips Fellowship—Geophysics chief executive officer of San Antonio loans. I'm definitely looking forward Texas A&M Foundation Steel Company and is recognized to adapting to my new surroundings. The Cullen Trust for Higher nationally for his entrepreneurial abil- I've been out of school for two years, Education ities. The Neelys continue to give so I am looking forward to hitting Houston, Texas back to Texas A&M by providing Project GRAD Residential Summer the books and getting A's on my Institute Program financial support in multiple areas. papers." The Raymond Dickson "The competition for top MBA —by Dorian Martin '07 Foundation students like Jose is quite fierce," says Hallettsville, Texas Raymond Dickson Foundation Scholarship

The M. S. Doss Foundation Inc. Seminole, Texas M. S. & Meek Lane Doss Endowed Opportunity Award

Dow AgroSciences LLC Cedar Park, Texas R NIE Texas Cooperative Extension HEEP MATC•ING GIFT INSPIRES NEELYS TO SUPPORT BUSINESS GRAD STUDENT Dow Chemical Company Midland, Michigan Dow Gift Fund

20 Rh irif a o n The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc. he Aggie Spirit is alive and New York, New York The Camille & Henry Dreyfus well at ExxonMobil. Current Foundation New Faculty Award and former employees, 348 in E. I. du Pont de Nemours & 2004, contributed more than Company T si million to Texas A&M Uni- Wilmington, Delaware Entomology Department versity through the matching program. In Discretionag Fund fact, Texas A&M consistently ranks at the top ap Research Support—Chemical of ExxonMobil's list of universities that receive Engineering contributions through its matching-gift pro- East Bell County A&M Mothers' Club gram. Recently, ExxonMobil has reinforced Belton, Texas its commitment to higher education by East Bell Coun0 A&M Mothers' increasing the amount a donor can con- Club Endowed Opportuniy Award tribute in a given year from $5,000 to $7,500. Eisai Research Institute of Boston Corporate matching-gift programs like n Andover, Massachusetts the one at ExxonMobil are an effortless way FIG 14 ism Iirimont s prorrdure for rnsiung tti Chemistg Department Research for a former student to take a small dona- *aest underwear roe text ) Boed Emmett & Miriam McCoy tion and stretch it into a considerable gift. Foundation Such matches help provide institutions like and excrements For San Marcos, Texas if you press a p Library General Gift Fund Texas A&M with more endowments for a sweat together with some wheat in co Entergy Charitable Foundation variety of purposes, including scholarships, twenty-one days th- odor changes and th New Orleans, Louisiana distinguished lectures, and teaching awards underwear and penfirating through the Department Improvement Fund— that might have otherwise been impossible. Me wheel into inn?. Bid Nuclear Engineering what u inort both sexes (merge ifro The ExxonMobil Foundation, which gn the wheat) and Ernst & Young Foundation duce with mice born Lyndhurst, New Jersey administers the company's matching gift naturay from pare more remarkable that Accounting Awareness Program program, provides a generous 3-to-I match the mice wh' ExxonMobil Corporation for each contribution made to two- and Irving, Texas four-year colleges and universities that are has provided more than $310 million to high- Department Improvement Fund— Chemical Engineering degree-granting, accredited, exempt from er education in the United States. federal taxes and physically located in the Firestone Building Products Co. Contributions through ExxonMobil's Indianapolis, Indiana United States. matching-gift program have had a tremen- Texas Agricultural Experiment Station The matching program, created in 1962 dous effect at Texas A&M. Luella and Ide P. Charles A. Frueauff by the Exxon Education Foundation, origi- Trotter '54 were "kids of the campus" at Foundation Inc. nally provided a i-to-i match based on its Little Rock, Arkansas Texas A&M. Their fathers, Dr. Ide P Trotter Frueauff Scholars Program founding principle to support higher educa- Sr. and Lewis M. Haupt '27, served on the Gradipore Limited tion initiatives. The match was increased to Texas A&M faculty. Among their many Frenchs Forest NSW, Australia 2-to-I in 1975 and then again in 1977 to the endowed scholarships, the Trotter family Liquid Chromatography— Chemistg current 3-to-I level. Few corporations pro- created gifts to honor both fathers throue,h Grange Services vide such a generous matching level, and this ExxonMobil matching. The Trotters also Geneva, Switzerland Equine Reproduction Fund generosity was maintained after Exxon and created the Trotter Prize and Endowed Mobil merged in 1999. Greater Texas Foundation To date, the program Lecture jointly in the colleges of science and Bryan, Texas Financial Aid/Executive Director's Achievement Award Greater Texas Foundation Endowed xxonMobil's Opportunig Award #1

Greater Texas Foundation Endowed Opportunig Award #2

Texas A&M Foundation 30 The Neil & Elaine Griffin very fortunate to have received college educ- Foundation ations," Peggy Brittan said. "We are blessed Kerrville, Texas Business Related Scholarships and wanted to give back in recognition of our Grimmway Enterprises Inc. families and those before us who funded schol- Bakersfield, California arships like the one Chuck received." Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Both Brittans have a connection to Hach Scientific Foundation ExxonMobil. Chuck held various positions Loveland, Colorado Hach Scientific Foundation with Humble Oil and Refining and Exxon Chemistry Teacher Scholarship for 16 years before starting his own petroleum The Jon L. Hagler Foundation engineering consulting firm, C.L. Brittan and Dover, Massachusetts Associates. Peggy, now manager of U.S. payroll Hagler Excellence Fund services, has been with ExxonMobil for 32 years. Halliburton "The corporation truly values education and Duncan, Oklahoma Engineering Fellowship Fund more than proves it with this exceptionally viheAt with the The Hamill Foundation generous matching-gift program," she said. Houston, Texas Chuck added, "We can't afford not to utilize The Hamill Foundation— the matching program. One of our dollars can Foundation Excellence Award The Hamill Foundation Library Fund undi-rwear wile( become four to A&M; and when you look at mouth iar, it after tax, it may be only 70 cents actually out The Herman F. Heep & Minnie Belle Heep Foundation of our pocket." College Station, Texas the u; ExxonMobil's matching-gift program Bonfire Memorial Dedication Ceremony (able is that nue continues to have a significant effect on many ConocoPhillips Inc./Heep Endowed ice successfully Texas A&M students, faculty and programs. Graduate Fellowship In the Dwight Look College of Engineering . But what is Robert M. Gates/Heep Endowed alone, more than 30 endowments have been Graduate Fellowship Fund established by donors through matching funds. Heep Foundation Texas A&M Fellowship in Engineering enoineerin, both in honor of the senior The results of the ExxonMobil matching- Trotter's achievements. Mitchell/Heep Chair in gift program offer a true testament of the spirit Experimental High Energy Physics The colleges of engineering, science and of former students and the vision of a com- Carl M. Pearey Jr./Heep Endowed business, the Corps of Cadets and the univer- pany dedicated to its employees, retirees and Graduate Fellowship in Mathematics sity's Foundation Excellence Award program higher education. Project Grad Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair in have benefited from the generosity of Peggy —by Carrie Paxton-Lamke Experimental Optical & Biomedical L. and Charles L. Brittan '65. They created Physics the Brittan Teaching Award in Mechanical With matching funds from ExxonMobil, Luella and Ide P. Hemeostem Industries Inc. Engineering, as well as a number of endowed Montgomery, Illinois Trotter '54 funded the Trotter Lecture Series in honor of Dr. Bradley E. Davis Memorial scholarships, some in honor of their late parents, his father, Dr. Ide P. Trotter Sr. Here Dr. Robert Shapiro, Endowed Scholarship Louise Clark Brittan, Elizabeth Wade Lepley professor emeritus and senior lecturer of chemistry at and Gordon T. Lepley Jr. As a student, Chuck New York University, presents his viewpoint on the origin Highways of Texas Houston, Texas Brittan received a much-needed Opportunity of life at the 2005 Trotter Lecture Series, which was hosted by the College of Science in collaboration with Mr. & Mrs. Doug Pitcock '49 General Rudder Corps Scholarship I Award enabling him to attend A&M. "We feel the Dwight Look College of Engineering. Mr. & Mrs. Doug Pitcock '49 General Rudder Corps Scholarship II

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Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Houston, Texas College of Veterinag Medicine Separated by Time, Scholarship oined Houston Livestock Assistantship Weldon Kruger '53 always wanted to attend lives of Kruger and O'Brien would cross, Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Scholarship Texas A&M, but like many aspiring students, thanks to the generosity of both the Krugers Howard County A&M Club both then and now, the main obstacle to a col- and ExxonMobil. The Kruger scholarship is Big Spring, Texas lege education was a lack of funding. Kruger's the culmination of a lifetime of selfless giving Don Knight 'Si Endowed Scholarship solution came in the form of a scholarship by the Krugers. They began donating shortly Intel Corporation from the university. He loved the traditions after Weldon's graduation, and have been Hillsboro, Oregon Intel Research Grant—Electrical at Texas A&M, thus it was no surprise that this supporting A&M since that time. They con- Engineering new college student wanted to be part of the sider it their duty to give back to the school Jones & Carter Inc. Aggie Corps of Cadets. To this day, he cred- that has meant so much to the Kruger family, Houston, Texas its much of his self-discipline and leadership including their start together. Jones & Carter Inc. Endowed Scholarship—Civil Engineering ability to his Corps training. The invest- Donors like the Krugers are able to

KPMG Foundation ment in the young student was a wise choice quadruple the value of their philanthropy. Montvale, New Jersey by the university. Kruger would become For the Krugers, giving back always seemed KPMG Chair—Accounting Corps commander his senior year. He went the natural thing to do, but with the matching Kraft Foods Global Inc. on to receive a master's degree in petroleum program, they could not help but ask, "How Glenview, Illinois engineering from Texas A&M, and served in Microfluidics Program Support can we not contribute?" the U.S. Air Force before joining Bruce McMillan Jr. Foundation Inc. ExxonMobil (then Exxon), where he retired Overton, Texas after 32 years of service. His companion dur- Bruce McMillan Jr. Graduate ing these years has been Patti Kruger, whom he Program Scholarships met at Texas A&M in 1952 and married in 1957. Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington Fast-forward half a century to the story Embedded Systems of another aspiring student searching for a Microsoft Research Support way to fund a college education. Filled with The Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte patriotic zeal following the 9/I1 attacks, Tim Foundation O'Brien 'o8 wanted to join the military, but Austin, Texas Mitte Scholars & Fellows Scholarships his father encouraged him to first get an edu-

National Academy of cation. Attending Texas A&M and joining the Nuclear Training Corps of Cadets seemed to be the perfect mid- Iowa Cip, Iowa dle ground for father and son. Like Kruger, Graduate Institute of Nuclear Power Operators Fellowship O'Brien was drawn to the traditions and ideals

National Instruments of both Texas A&M and the Corps. To get the Austin, Texas most from his college experience, O'Brien Department Improvement Fund — sought financial assistance, which came from Electrical Engineering the Patti and Weldon D. Kruger '53 Sul Ross Opera & Performing Arts Society Guild Scholarship, awarded through the Corps of Bgan, Texas Cadets. Memorial Student Center Opera Separated by 5o years but embodying & Performing Arts Socieb) Excellence Fund many of the same ideals and aspirations, the

Texas AeM Founda on 2 Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc. San Antonio, Texas Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc. Scholarship—Civil Engineering Fund Survey Camp Endowment in Civil Engineering Fund

Paso del Norte Health Foundation El Paso, Texas )yGenerositrie Center for Housing & Urban eternally grateful to the the Aggie family. With the help of the Development Paso Del Norte- 2004-2005 Ageless Health Krugers for their support. "Their generosity ExxonMobil matching-gift program, their Initiative is one more thing that drives me because I don't generosity goes a long way. Center for Housing & Urban Development Paso Del Norte— want to disappoint them," he said. Well on —by Carrie Paxton-Lamke his way to achieving both his educational and Smoke-Free Paso Del Norte Colonias 2004-2005 Initiative military service goals, O'Brien has applied Minnie Stevens Piper for the U.S. Army's simultaneous member- Foundation ship program, which allows him to complete San Antonio, Texas some military training while he's in college. Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Scholarships Ultimately, the program will speed his journey Patti and Weldon D. Kruger '53 are helping Tim Powell Educational Trust toward defending the United States. Thanks O'Brien '08 realize his aspirations to pursue a career in the military with a Sul Ross Scholarship created Houston, Texas to the Krugers, he will do this as a Texas MEM with a match from ExxonMobil. Bernice E. Powell Endowed graduate. Scholarship—Liberal Arts The Krugers continue to give to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Tampa, Florida Texas MEM so that more students like PricewaterhouseCoopers Accounting O'Brien will have the privilege of joining Excellence Fund Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio Chemistry Department

The Ed Rachel Foundation Corpus Christi, Texas Corps Academic Learning Center Improvement Fund Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Publication Fund Rachel Professorship/Chair in Chemistry Rockwell Automation Milwaukee, Wisconsin University Special Gifts

Elbert W. Rogers Foundation Greenville, South Carolina Charles Elbert Marr President's Endowed Scholarship

Rowan Companies Inc. Houston, Texas Rowan Companies Inc. Scholarship

Royce Homes Inc. Houston, Texas Freshman Business Initiative

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22 Sblrit Sbrin g 2006 San Antonio Area Foundation San Antonio, Texas San Antonio Area Foundation Scholarships

San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc. San Antonio, Texas San Antonio Livestock Exposition Scholarships

Schlumberger Technology Corp.—GeoQuest CAMPAIGN SLIRPAS)ES SI BILLION GOA/ Mitchell commissioned noted architect Michael Houston, Texas Texas A&M University exceeded its $1 billion One Graves & Associates to design two buildings that University Special Gifts Spirit One Vision Campaign goal in April 2005 with will form the cornerstone of the university's The Sequor Foundation 18 months remaining in the seven-year fund-raising expanded physics and astronomy programs: the Marshall, Texas Sequor Foundation Endowed drive. As of Feb. 28, 2006, donors have committed George P. & Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Turfgrass Scholarship more than $1.14 billion that will benefit students, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy and the

Silicon Laboratories Inc. faculty and programs. The official announcement George P. Mitchell '40 Physics Building. Austin, Texas was made during the July meeting of the Board of For a more detailed story, go to: Silicon Laboratories—Analog M xed Regents. During the campaign the Texas A&M Signal Center Support http://giving.tamu.edu/5spirit Foundation has made more than $193 million The Vivian L. Smith available for the university to be spent according Foundation GLASSCOCK _JOINS FOUNDATION BOARD to donors' wishes. Houston, Texas Melbern G. Glasscock '59 of Houston was appointee ICU Building— Small Animal Clinic to the Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees in FOUNDATION M A RK ,/ RECORD F1///CAI YEAR South Texas Higher Education July. A passionate supporter of the liberal arts, Foundation Successful fund raising combined with sound Glasscock endowed the Center for Humanities Edinburg, Texas investment strategy resulted in a healthy fiscal year Financial Aid/Executive Director's Research at Texas A&M, which now bears his name for the Texas A&M Foundation. The Foundation Achievement Award Glasscock brings extensive business leadership one recorded 2004-05 fiscal year gifts of more than $62 The Stenzel Family Foundation philanthropy to the board. He is chairman and chic million, which exceeds the previous record of $51.6 Inc. executive officer of Texas Aromatics Inc., a Houston Schulenburg, Texas million set in 2000. As of June 30, 2005, the based petrochemical marketing company with $39! Educational Scholarships Foundation managed $1 billion in total assets. million in annual sales, which he founded in 1980. Nelda C. & H. J. Lutcher Stark These results enabled the Foundation to disburse Foundation $43.5 million to Texas A&M University during 2004- He and his wife, Susanne, endowed the humanitie Orange, Texas 05, the largest sum in its history. research center's book prize, as well as a chair in ICU Building—Small Animal Clinic American history, a professorship in undergraduat Surebeam Corporation To view 2004-05 Foundation financial highlights: teaching, a President's Endowed Scholarship and San Diego, California http://giving.tamu.edu/2spirit UniversiDi Special Gifts two Sul Ross Scholarships. In 2003 the building tha houses Texas A&M's history department was renames The Terry Foundation To request a copy of the Texas A&M Foundation's Houston, Texas 2005 annual report: the Melbern G. Glasscock Building. The Terg Foundation Scholarships http://giving.tamu.edu/3spirit He serves as vice chairman of the One Spirit One Texas Animal Medical Vision Campaign executive committee, and was a Center Inc. To download a PDF of the annual report: Waco, Texas http://giving.tamu.edu/4spirit major donor to the Foundation's Jon L. Hagler Cente M. D. Richardson Endowed Scholarship —Veterinag Medicine Glasscock replaces outgoing trustee Jesse W. FOUNDATION HONORS MITCHELL Curlee '67, whose term ended on June 30. Texas Instruments WITH STERLING C. EVANS MEDAL Dallas, Texas The Texas A&M Foundation board of trustees Department Improvement Fund— Electrical Engineering awarded the Sterling C. Evans Medal to George P. Mitchell '40 in March during the A&M Legacy Texas Interscholastic League Foundation Society gala on the Texas A&M University campus. Austin, Texas More than 450 donors, students, faculty and staff Texas Interscholastic League gathered at the Bernard C. Richardson Zone to Foundation Scholarships celebrate the occasion.

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Major General James Ursano Scholarship Fund JAEDICKE, WILLEMS PROMOTED In August the Foundation wel- Alexandria, Virginia Carl Jaedicke '73, assistant vice comed Steve Blomstedt '83 Militag-Related Scholarships

president for development and as director of development Walton Family Foundation Inc. a 20-year veteran of the Texas for the Dwight Look College Bentonville, Arkansas Plant Sciences Discretionag Fund A&M Foundation, assumed of Engineering departments of expanded responsibilities at the electrical engineering, computer William A. Brookshire Foundation Texas A&M Foundation in science and engineering tech- Houston, Texas October. His new duties include nology/industrial distribution. Before joining the Educational Scholarship Fund day-to-day oversight of the major gift and college- Foundation, Blomstedt was an area director of Williams Brothers Construction directed fund-raising programs, along with Young Life for 16 years. He has a degree in Company Inc. prospect programs and information technology. In accounting and is a certified public accountant. Houston, Texas his previous post he supervised the fund-raising Williams Brothers Construction Ron Streibich returned to the Company Scholarship—Civil efforts for the Dwight Look College of Texas A&M Foundation in Engineering Engineering, and also provided guidance for November as senior director Gus & Ethel Wolters development directors in the other colleges. of development for Texas A&M Foundation Trust San Antonio, Texas Greg Willems is now senior University at Galveston. In this Gus Se Ethel Wolters Foundation director of development for position he will direct the Scholarships the Dwight Look College of Foundation's first major-gift The Zachry Foundation Engineering. Willems, who fund-raising effort at the Galveston campus. A San Antonio, Texas joined the Foundation in 2002, graduate of Knox College in Illinois, Streibich first W R. Powell Jr. General Rudder Corps Scholarship has worked as the director of joined the Foundation in 1988 to manage its first development in the College capital campaign and later managed fund raising M. B. & Edna Zale Foundation Dallas, Texas of Geosciences and as the regional director of in Houston for the Capturing the Spirit campaign. M. B. & Edna Zale Foundation— major gifts. Streibich also handled development for the George Foundation Excellence Award Bush Presidential Library Center. From 2001 to FOUNDATION WELCOME s NEW EMPLOYEES present he was vice president for institutional Kathy D. McCoy '80 joined the advancement at Texas Tech University. Texas A&M Foundation in March 2005 as the director of market- ing and public relations. She is working closely with a national brand consulting firm to define a marketing strategy for the Foundation that will help it better serve its current and future donor market. McCoy earned a bioengi- neering degree from Texas A&M in 1980 and an MBA from Cornell Graduate School of Management in 1984. Before moving back to College Station she worked for Kagan Research in Monterey, Calif.

4. String 2006 Great Matches Through History MATCHING-GIFT PROGRAMS DOUBLE THE POWER OF GENEROSITY AT TEXAS A&M

Since the late 1990s, matching-gift programs have been Distinguished Alumnus and honorary chair of Texas a mainstay in Texas A&M's fund-raising efforts. Through A&M's One Spirit One Vision Campaign. Bright also such programs, the university has repeatedly benefited was owner of the NFL Dallas Cowboys from 1984 to from an overwhelming—and quick—response from 1989. He passed away in January 2005. donors. The end result of his generous matching program From cadets to professors, matching-gift programs was the establishment of 30 chairs supporting faculty continue to benefit a broad spectrum of the Texas throughout Texas A&M's colleges. A&M community. The following is a sampling of these fund-raising efforts. Bright Corps Matching Program Faculty members weren't the only ones to benefit from Texas A6M Bookstore Scholarship Matching Program Bright's generosity. The university directed sic) million A matching-gift program initiated in fall 1997 lasted of Bright's $25 million gift to the Corps of Cadets. Of only three months, but generated 132 new scholarships that sup million, $2 million funded an unrestricted and seven new fellowships for Texas A&M students. endowment for the Corps. The remaining $8 million The university-wide Texas A&M Bookstore Schol- created the Bright Corps Matching Program. arship Matching Program was created from revenues The popular Corps matching program enabled received from the Barnes & Noble bookstore contract. donors to fund Corps scholarships for "half price." The university used a portion of this revenue —$5 mil- Corps programs that benefited from the endowments lion—to match scholarship and fellowship gifts at or included the Sul Ross Scholarship program, the Aggie above $25,000. Donors therefore pledged funds for one Band and various leadership programs. scholarship and matching funds provided a second schol- Vision 2020 arship of equal value for students in any area the donor Chair Matching Program designated. In November 1999, Texas voters made a decision that When the program ended in February 1998, schol- ultimately provided more funds to the Texas A&M Uni- versity and University of Texas systems. With the pas- arships had been created in seven different Texas A&M sage of Proposition 17, voters granted financial managers colleges. Numerous need- and merit-based scholarships also were funded through this program. greater flexibility in managing the investments of the Permanent University Fund (PUF), which provide sup- Bright Chair Matching Program plemental funding to the two university systems. The At the beginning of 1998, Texas A&M University boasted end result was higher PUF investment returns—called 90 endowed chairs—academia's most coveted faculty the Available University Fund (AUF)— and more money awards. In a mere 18 months, that number increased by for key university initiatives. a third to 120 chairs, thanks to the success of the H.R. Dr. Ray M. Bowen '58, then president of Texas "Bum" Bright Chair Matching Program. A&M, took advantage of these increased returns by desig- The faculty chair matching program was created nating $20 million of the AUF for the Vision 2020 Chair with $15 million of a $25 million unrestricted gift from Matching Program. The endowed chairs were to ben- Bright to Texas A&M. The aim of the program was to efit Texas AszM faculty. increase endowed chair positions at the university to The Vision 2020 program followed the same attract and retain top-level faculty. Through the pro- framework as the Bright Chair program. But while the gram's i-to-i match, donors could endow a $1 million Bright Chair program matched gifts of $5oo,000, the chair with a $5oo,000 gift. Vision 2020 Matching Chair Program matched gifts Bright '43 was chairman of the Texas A&M Uni- ranging from $500,000 to $1 million. The result, with versity System Board of Regents from 1981 to 1985. He the i-to-i match, was si million to $2 million endowed was an Endowed Diamond Century Club member, faculty chairs. –by Kara Bounds Soc ol

Texas ArM Foundation 36 TAPE ALONG EDGE Frequently Asked Questions 0 What is an employee matching gift and how do I make one to Texas A&M?

An employee matching gift is a contribution from a cor- porate employer that matches a contribution to a charita- ble organization by a corporate employee. To encourage employees to make charitable gifts, many corporations agree to match these personal donations with an equal or greater corporate contribution. Many corporations offer employee matching gift programs in higher education to stimulate their employees to give to the college or university of their choice (usually their alma mater). To initiate a matching gift to Texas A&M University; complete your employer's matching gift form and send it along with your gift to the Texas A&M Foundation, The Association of Former Students or If' Man Foundation. That Texas A&M organization will complete the form, cer- tifying that it is eligible to participate in your company's matching program and that it received your gift. The Texas A&M organization will then send the form to your employer, who will verify the eligibility of you and the Texas A&M organization and then finally send the matching funds to that organization. Every corporate matching program has its own rules. FOLD ALONG GUIDE You should check with your employer's personnel depart- ment to see if your gift qualifies for a corporate match.

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