Submitted By: Walter L. Strong, Senior Vice President University Relations
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Submitted by: Walter L. Strong, Senior Vice President University Relations • EXTERNALRELATIONS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS Recent Alumni Events/Activities Fifty-one alumni and friends left July 18 on the Alumni Association's Russia trip, Journey of the Czars. Highlights of this trip included three days in Moscow, three days in Leningrad, and a six-day cruise on the Volga River. The trip was a sell-out for the second consecutive year. The Los Angeles Alumni Club held its fourth annual Detroit Tiger's baseball outing on July 22. One hundred thirty-two people attended the game against the California Angels, preceded by a pre-game party which offered Lafayette coney islands and Sanders hot fudge sundaes. Seventeen alumni participated in The Inside Passage cruise from Vancouver to Alaska, offered by the Alumni Association between August 4 and 14. In addition to a pre-cruise stay in Vancouver, there was a two-day cruise option to Anchorage and Denali National Park. The Alumni Association sponsored the eleventh annual four-day motorcoach trip to the Shaw Theatre Festival in Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario between August 11 and 14. Fifty-four alumni participated in the trip. • The newly-elected Executive Committee of the Alumni Association held a retreat at the Detroit Golf Club on August 15 to begin planning the events, activities and programs for the 1989-90 year . The classes of 1939 and 1940 held their 50th Anniversary Reunion during the weekend of September 15-17. The weekend included open houses on campus, walking and bus tours of the campus, and receptions. President Adamanyattended the Reunion banquet in the McGregor Center. The festivities concluded with a buffet brunch on Sunday, September 17, at the Detroit Yacht Club. An outstanding group of alumni was involved as the planning committee for this reunion. Attendance at the three events totaled nearly 300 alumni and friends . • As a result of the overwhelming success of the Alumni Association's weekend tour to Toronto to see "Les Miserables," an additional weekend was scheduled for September 22-24 to accommodate those alumni who were unable to participate in June. This tour was also fully subscribed with forty-two travelers. • DEVELOPMENTAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Agenda September 27, 1989 2 The Detroit Festival of the Arts on September 22-24 '.rci:;<Je:d se 11eral alumni-related activities. The Alumni Association rese"'·1ea a booth for the three-day event and promoted membership and alumni ctivities, as well as the sale oft-shirts and other specialty items. The Women of Wayne staffed and operated the booth on September 2?. 7 he • Association's Annual Fun Run was held (mile/lOK) on September 24. As in previous years, the Run was co-sponsored by the Circa 1890 Saloon and WDETwhich also agreed to play a major role in recruiting and publicizing the Run. An Odyssey to Greece, a 13-day tour and cruise of Greece and the Greek Islands, departed on September 25 with 20 alumni aboard. Coming Alumni Events/Activities The Womenof Wayne Alumni Association will sponsor its third annual reception honoring womenfaculty and academic staff members in Alumni House on October 5. Six alumni will be honored with Arts Achievement Awards in the McGregor Center on October 14. The Eastern Region of the Womenof Wayne Alumni Association will present a Chamber Music Benefit Concert featuring a WSU Faculty/Student Trio at the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church on October 15. Proceeds will benefit the University's Music Department. The Alumni Association's final travel offering of the year vlill be a • one-week San Francisco trip, departing October 22. Approximately 20 alumni have made reservations. Distinguished alum and nationally-known TV and radio personality Casey Kasemwill be on campus October 28 and 29 to help host and participate in workshops in the McGregor Center and Alumni House sponsored by the Foundation for Mideast Communication. The Western Region of the Womenof Wayne Alumni Association will present a tour of Historical Mill Race Village in Northville, Michigan on October 29. Refreshments and a get-acquainted hour will precede an introduction and tour of the Village. Alumni meetings will be held in the Upper Peninsula November3 and 4. President Adamanywill be the featured speaker at gatherings in Escanaba, Marquette, and Sault Ste. Marie . • The Alumni Association's annual Travel Preview will be held in Alumni House and the McGregor Center November 6. Representatives of various travel agencies will be present to discuss and show visuals on all trips to be offered by the Association in 1990. 2A Report from the Wayne State Alumni Association • I. Membership Update I I. NewAlumni Association Leadership I I I. Continuation of Mentor Program IV. Alumni Association Scholarship Program V. Alumni Special Events • • 3 Corporate and Foundation Relations The College of Education received $4,000 from the ksccia' ion of the United States Army for the annual Junior Science and HuIT,an:ties Symposium. • AT&Tcontinued its support of the Journalism Institute for Minorities with a gift of $2,500. The Automobile Club of Michigan made a grant of $3,328.42 to the Richard H. Austin Fund for Accounting Excellence . Children's Hospital of Michigan continued its support of the Louis M. Elliman Research Building with an equipment grant of $138,580 for the Department of Pediatrics. The Circa 1890 Saloon continued its annual support of Wayne State with gifts of $721.49 for the Law School and $500 for Public Safety training and equipment. The City of Detroit contributed $9,000 to the Millender Fellowship Program. Consumer's Power Companycompleted its pledge to the Louis M. Elliman Research Building with a check for $5,000. Cray Research Foundation continued to provide scholarship support to • the Computer Science Department with a 1989 award of $2,000. Detroit Edison Foundation remitted $50,000 for the fourth installment of a $250,000 pledge for an electrical engineering laboratory in the College of Engineering. The Ernst & Whinney Foundation made a grant of $2,425 to the Department of Accounting in the School of Business Administration for research and development. The Ida M. Faigle Foundation continued its support of the Ida M. Faigle College of Lifelong Learning Revolving Loan Fund with a gift of $1,000 . Federal-Mogul Corporation continued its support of research fellowships in the School of Business Administration with a grant of $5,000 . The Ford Motor Companycontinued support of the University with its grant of $19,000 for unregulated emissions research in the College of Engineering . • The College of Engineering received the second $250,000 installment toward Ford Motor CompanyFund's pledge of $1 million. Ford Motor Companyalso granted $2,000 to the Institute for Manufacturing Research for an industrial diamond workshop. ,,....;; ,· ; -~ - ··--- 4 The Gerber Companies Foundation funded a $5,000 nutri~"-r :~1cosal from the Department of Nutrition and Food Science in =~~ ~c;lege of Liberal Arts. The Herrick Foundation awarded $50,000 to the Law School 1 n nemory of EmmetEagen. The James and Lynelle Holden Fund continued its support of Dr. Nigro's intestinal cancer research with a grant of $75,000. The Journalism Institute for Minorities received $1,000 from the Ludington News Company. Manufacturers Bank remitted the Robert H. Tannahill Foundation's quarterly installment of $31,321.38 to the Merrill-Palmer Institute. The McGregor Fund completed its pledge to the Louis M. Elliman Research Building with a check for $60,000. The Mobil Foundation made a grant of $5,000 to support Arabic Studies. The Monsanto Companyawarded the College of Engineering a grant of $40,000 for minority scholarship support. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation continued to support the computer teleconferencing project in Computer Information and Technology with a grant of $50,000 . Rockwell International Corporation awarded $5,000 to the College of • Engineering for scholarships. The Shiffman Foundation made grants to two areas of the University. The Shiffman Medical Library received a grant of $500 and the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies received a grant of $4,000. The Skillman Foundation granted the Hilberry Theatre $30,000 for the 1989-90 season. This is the third consecutive year the Foundation has supported the Theatre. Unisys Corporation awarded $5,000 to the SummerTraining and Education Program directed by Seymour Wolfson of Computer Science and Paula Wood of the College of Education. This gift was awarded to the University at a ceremony attended by Vice President Dan Quayle . • WDETreceived $7,500 from the Stroh Brewery Companyfor general support . • ,, ... 1 ,, ....:•,,..,..._'-I; d•' " ~' 5 Planned and Major Givinc Irving Bluestone and the ~ichigan Quality of Work Life Cc~ncil contributed a total of 57,000 to the Michigan Quality of Wark Life Council and Irving 3luestone Scholarship Fund. • The annual distribution of $5,000 was received from the Albert C. Dames Trust which is designated to the Albert C. Dames Scholarship Fund. The trust presently totals $25,000. John G. Eldredge donated an additional $39,366 for the Laughead-Eldredge EndowedScholarships in Creative Writing (formerly the Patrici2 Laughead ~ldredge Endowed Fund for Creative Writing established in 1988) to establish a $90,000 endowed scholarship, and for Fall 1989 awards. Thomas C. Evans designated a total gift of stock of $5,768.75; $3,000 was designated to the School of Business Administration and $2,768.75 was designated to the ~en's Glee Club. Herman Feigenson designated a $10,000 gift to the Herman Feigenson-Perry Feigenson EndowedScholarship Fund. To date, eleven scholarships have been awarded this fiscal year; the endowment fund presently totals S100,397.39. A gift of $34,971.61 was received from the Estate of Albert F. Gelles designated to the Walter P.