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ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Bethlehem University Foundation Bethlehem University Foundation SECURING BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY’S FUTURE // ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Bethlehem University Foundation Dear Friends, Thank you for your support of the Bethlehem University Foundation. Your generosity helps to create a bright future for the students and the community in the Holy Land. You make peace possible through education. I am honored to serve as the Executive Director of this Foundation. During the past year, I took Bethlehem University’s message of hope to gatherings in the United States and beyond. We engaged new and old friends in our mission of supporting Bethlehem University. Last year was the most successful in the history of the Foundation. Our success means added support for Bethlehem University. This good news is due to the enthusiasm, generosity, and commitment of people like you. For your support, I am eternally grateful. Bethlehem University is an “Oasis of Peace” in a land marked by conflict. But if peace ever comes to the Holy Land, it will be through peaceful people. Students educated at Bethlehem University are those peacemakers and you are helping to form these future leaders with your support. I should note the hard work and dedication of the Board of Directors and staff of the Foundation. I must add a special word of gratitude to the Patrons of the Foundation; those individuals and couples who generously invest in the future of Bethlehem University and serve as ambassadors of the Foundation. Together, we are making a difference in the lives of people in the Holy Land. I thank you for your support, but more importantly, your friendship. The people of the Holy Land need our prayers. With your generosity, you are part of the answer to those prayers. With my continued best wishes for you and your loved ones, thank you. Sincerely, John L. Schlageter, Esq., KCHS Executive Director Creating a brighter future for Bethlehem University THE PATRONS OF THE BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION Thanks to you, 2018 was a most successful year! Patrons are individuals or couples who make a qualifying gift to the Patrons Endowment. With their generosity, the members of this giving society invest in Because of you, 2018 was a very the future of Bethlehem University and serve as Ambassadors of the Foundation. successful year with over $3.8 million raised in gifts and pledges. There are three levels of Patrons: • Bronze Patron for gifts totaling $25,000 to the Your gifts make a real difference. Patrons Endowment over a 5-year period Thanks to you, Bethlehem • Silver Patron for $50,000 in lifetime giving to University provides the people the Patrons Endowment of the Holy Land with first-rate • Gold Patron for $100,000 in lifetime giving to higher education. Educational the Patrons Endowment programs lead to meaningful employment for Bethlehem The Patrons serve as advisors to the University graduates. The Executive Director of the Foundation. For this purpose, Patrons hold an University also provides the local annual pilgrimage/meeting in Rome, Bethlehem, or another city as the community with the jobs they membership decides. need to remain in their homes. The Patrons Endowment is a Board-restricted endowed fund which allows the Foundation to increase its annual support to Bethlehem University. As a Catholic university, Bethlehem The Foundation celebrates the Patrons each year at the Patrons Reception in University is forming a generation New York City and at all Foundation events. with peaceful minds, peaceful If you would like more information about the Patrons, please contact the hearts, and peaceful souls. We Bethlehem University Foundation at 240-241-4381, or visit our website at are grateful for you and your www.bufusa.org. continuing support. Bethlehem University students have opportunities to study — in the classroom and beyond — because of your generous support of the Bethlehem University Foundation. Thank you! ANNUAL REPORT 2019 1 (Left) Bethlehem University Students who interned in the U.S., past and present, hold a sign thanking the Sir John McGuckin Mentoring and Internship Program. (Right) George Bael, Business Administration major, split his internship in Illinois, giving him both business and non-profit experience. Bethlehem University A beneficiary of your generosity: Lara Kasbari students receive valuable professional experience Bethlehem University 2018 Valedictorian Lara Kasbari cannot say enough Your support means a world of about her education. She shared her hopes for the future: opportunity for them! “I hope at some point in my life to become a teacher, as my own teachers have had such a great influence on me, showing me that teaching is a way to This past summer, the Foundation inspire and to influence positive changes in others. But whatever plans God may welcomed Bethlehem University have for me, I hope to contribute to my society and try to make a difference in students George Bael, Nicola my community.” Darwish, Leen Hadweh, Donna Lara received an academic scholarship to Bethlehem University. Though Khair, and Vazken Panossian to she could have studied abroad, she chose to stay in her hometown at the United States. They came to Bethlehem University. intern at various organizations in She participated in the Sir John McGuckin Mentoring and Internship Washington, DC, and Illinois. Program, spending the summer of 2017 working with the Christian Brothers Conference in Washington, DC. The Sir John McGuckin Mentoring Last year, Lara represented Palestine at the U.K. Summit. She was awarded and Internship Program of the the Best Speaker title in the first International Palestine Open Debate Northwestern Lieutenancy of Championship there. She was selected to represent the Middle East and North the Equestrian Order of the Holy Africa region at the 10th annual G(irls)20 Summit in Japan where she met Sepulchre of Jerusalem sponsors other young women from around the world. the interns. The program provides They shared a week of leadership training, an opportunity for Bethlehem social enterprise development, and mentoring University’s best students to from female leaders in the business and gain new experiences and helpful public sectors. career mentoring in a foreign Outstanding students like Lara are land. The program also shares the changing the world because people like you wonderful story of Bethlehem choose to support their education by giving University with an international to Bethlehem University Foundation. audience. Thank you. Lara Kasbari received the 2018 Class Valedictorian Medal from Brother Peter Bray, FSC, Vice Chancellor of the University. 2 SECURING BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY’S FUTURE Walking the Camino de Santiago was a life changing experience for Ghassan Salameh and all who joined him. Pictured here are the students from Bethlehem University who joined Ghassan for the last miles of the walk, and as they reached mile marker zero, the end of the Camino. The Way to Bethlehem: Ghassan’s way: lead by example A pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago Ghassan Salameh was born in Lebanon, the son of Palestinian refugees from WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND GENEROSITY Nazareth. His elementary and middle school education was funded by UNRWA Ghassan Salameh, member of the Board of Bethlehem University (United Nations Relief and Works Agency). Foundation, walked in pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago on behalf of His high school education, in a Palestine Bethlehem University. refugee camp, was funded by the A pilgrimage is a spiritual journey with a purpose. Ghassan began walking Vatican. Thanks to the Vatican-sponsored the 800 kilometers (nearly 500 miles) of his Camino in mid-May. He did so Pontifical Mission for Palestine, he was to raise awareness about Bethlehem University’s unique mission. He wanted able to continue his university education to highlight the challenges the students face in pursuit of their education, in the United States. His education, due while also bringing a message of hope for a better future. Ghassan invited to the generosity of others, coupled with others to join him. At the end of June, more than 40 people from 13 countries his drive and persistence, led him to a joined Ghassan as he walked into the Cathedral of Saint James in Santiago de successful career. Compostela, Spain. Along the way, the group shared the story of Bethlehem University with Ghassan is fond of saying, “I understand their fellow pilgrims, with family and friends, and, through social media, with first-hand the importance of education people around the world. as an opportunity for a better life. As Among the pilgrims were seven students from Bethlehem University. Many a Palestinian refugee myself, I have a of these students had never travelled outside of their homeland. special appreciation for the work that The pilgrimage ended with their arrival at the Cathedral in Santiago. There, Bethlehem University is doing for the the group was met with roaring applause. The celebrant for mass announced, youth of the Holy Land.” Ghassan joined “Today we have a group of students from Bethlehem University – Christian and the Board of the Bethlehem University Muslim – who walked the Camino together in friendship and in peace.” Foundation in 2017. Thank you for your prayers and support. Please know of our prayers for you. “I decided the best way for me to raise “To go on pilgrimage is not simply to visit a place to admire its awareness about Bethlehem University and the Foundation was to walk the treasures of nature, art or history. To go on pilgrimage really Camino de Santiago.” means to step out of ourselves in order to encounter God where he has revealed himself, where his grace has shone with You too are leading the way with your particular splendor and produced rich fruits of conversion and generous support of the Bethlehem holiness among those who believe.” — POPE BENEDICT XVI University Foundation! ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 George Felton, Director of College Scouting and Claudio Crippa, International Scout for the San Antonio Spurs, visited the University in December where they met some of the University students (Left) and Mrs.
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