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GIVING AT BICENTENNIAL 2017

200 YEARS OF GIVING AT MICHIGAN—AND COUNTING 16 Connections Through Time An illustrated guide to the unlikely web of connections created by not-so-random acts of philanthropy at U-M 22 Michigan’s Man of Mystery The untold tale of a reserved gentleman, the , and a shocking secret 26 In Pursuit of Excellence Tracing the history of the comprehensive fundraising campaign at Michigan

Above: Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy—in a speech at the Michigan Union on October 14, 1960—laid the foundation for the Peace Corps. For more, see how past meets present on campus in “Take a Tour With Me” on page 34. 30 A Force of Character A look back at the remarkable physician who funded the university’s oldest Contents endowed professorship In justice, then, to the true spirit of Talent is distributed evenly throughout 34 learning, to the best interests of society, our society, but opportunity most 2 Take a Tour With Me A Word From A student perspective on seven iconic President U-M landmarks that were influenced to the historic life of this state, let us now certainly is not. The University of by philanthropy On 200 years of philanthropic history and donors’ role in achieving the hold wide open the gates of this university Michigan is proud to partner on this bicentennial promise We extend our sincerest thanks to the dedicated professionals of the Bentley Historical Library. Without your work in preserving— and helping to all our sons and daughters, rich or historic initiative to address others access—the history of the university, this 4 publication would not have been possible. The Gifts That Started It All Thank you. poor, whom God by gifts of intellect and our nation’s pressing need to ensure equal A retrospective on the generosities that have shaped U-M’s history and defined by kindly providences has called to seek opportunities for students across the the university Leaders & Best Bicentennial Website for a liberal education. socioeconomic spectrum. 12 Have Your President Call on Me The story of one of U-M’s most generous It was recognized — PRESIDENT —PRESIDENT MARK SCHLISSEL benefactors and the ambitious young fundraiser June 26, 1879 December 13, 2016 who sought him out that without a certain amount In his 1879 commencement address, “The Higher More than a century later, Angell’s vision On the front cover: Photo of U-M Law School library: of assistance from VP of Development and Communications collection, Education: A Plea for Making It Accessible to continues to define the university. President Bentley Historical Library, ; private sources the All,” President Angell implored his audience to Schlissel recently announced U-M’s partnership composed photo by Michigan Photography, Austin Thomason On the back cover: Photo of Ross School: university could not remember that pillar of equality on which the with the American Talent Initiative. Like the HAIL Raimund Koch for Kohn Pedersen Fox; composed university was established. During his tenure, Scholarships and Wolverine Pathways program, photo by Michigan Photography, Austin Thomason properly fulfill its The names of U-M donors in this publication To enjoy an enriched, online Angell fought vigorously to equalize opportunities the initiative will provide opportunities at U-M for appear in boldface type. destiny. experience of the stories in this for a college education across economic strata. talented low- and middle-income students. special bicentennial edition of UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN —WILFRED B. SHAW (AB 1904), Leaders & Best, be sure to check out the OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT an early-20th-century U-M director 3003 South State Street of alumni relations and encyclopedic Leaders & Best bicentennial website at Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1288 chronicler of U-M history LeadersandBest200.umich.edu P | 734.647.6000 F |

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2 This year marks the bicentennial of the founding THE ROOTS of the University of Michigan. OF BLUE Among the treasures documenting U-M’s In honor of our history, and to help us What began as an ambitious educational history—including early pave the way to a bright future, we experiment conceived as part of the support from donors— 1 invite you to enjoy this special edition Northwest Ordinance of 1787 has become are (clockwise from top of Leaders & Best as we pause to reflect a global research university advancing the left) [1] an act signed on the important role philanthropy highest ideals of what a public research by founding father John has played in shaping the university university should be. The enterprise as we Monteith on September throughout our first two centuries. know it today includes some 40,000 faculty 12, 1817, establishing and staff members working with 61,000 that “no subscriber... shall be required to pay Our bicentennial would not be complete students on three vibrant campuses. more than $50 in one without recognition of the amazing role We’ve come a long way, thanks in part to year if he desires such our friends and supporters have played the work of volunteers and the generosity accommodation;” in taking this institution from good to of philanthropists. [2] a chart of proposed great. For the remarkable achievements areas for teaching and of the past 200 years, the university owes Donors have always played a vital role learning, handwritten a tremendous debt of gratitude to the in shaping the University of Michigan— by founding father passion and dedication of its friends and, by extension, the mission of a great Augustus Woodward 5 and supporters. public research university in a world that in the act establishing has grown increasingly complex. A solid the university; [3] an The university’s earliest “subscribers”— appreciation of the university’s history original receipt from December 9, 1817, for 3 as donors were then called—donated will position U-M to continue its role as Woodward’s $12.50 funds to construct the first building and a world leader in defining the future of gift to the university; hire the first two instructors, who taught a public higher education. I encourage you to [4] a document signed grand total of six or seven students. Those learn more about how the generosity and by Monteith appointing early teachers and learners gave birth to a foresight of people like you have helped the a trustee to office; long tradition of academic excellence. university to become what it is today. [5] page one of the act establishing

the university. LIBRARY, HISTORICAL BENTLEY COLLECTION, WALKER I. CHARLES DOCUMENTS: EARLY One of the very first available rankings Through your engagement with the THOMASON AUSTIN PHOTOGRAPHY, MICHIGAN BY PHOTO MICHIGAN; OF UNIVERSITY of universities dates back to 1908, when university, you help make the university the Carnegie Foundation ranked U-M what it is. With your ongoing support, you No. 4 among North American universities. help define what it can become. For your More than 100 years later, the university part in helping the university achieve its continues to be recognized among the bicentennial promise—always leading, nation’s leading institutions of higher forever valiant—thank you. education. This past fall, The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education Sincerely, 4 ranked U-M the No. 1 public university in the country.

MARK SCHLISSEL PRESIDENT

2 Leaders & Best :: BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL Michigan Campus Michigan from Andrew Dickson White. 1855 painting painting 1855 F. Jasper Cropsey’s here, Shown The University of of University The was a gift to U-M to U-M agift was GIFTS THAT STARTED STARTED THAT THAT GIFT It All It It All It Philanthropy at U-M The First Century of of The Century First The The BY KIM CLARKE

CROPSEY PAINTING: JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY VISUAL MATERIALS, BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN the result was a 50-page treatise to treatise a50-page was result the at Michigan, of giving history the 1930s to catalog early the out in set relations, of alumni W These are some of the transformative gifts from the university’s first 100 years. first 100 university’s the from gifts transformative the someare of These destiny.” its not properly could fulfill university the sources private from of assistance amount certain without a that history…it university’s therecognized was “Throughout Shaw observed, As it educated. students the and university of the scope intellectual and the physical shaped ones earliest the the years, through of gifts diversity the For all Shaw concluded. reveals,” of gifts long list the never broken, as up atradition set has days, early its in established well Michigan, theof for University support of private practice “The estate. real Arbor of Ann acres 40 and Alexis, Duke Grand from history 100 of volumes Russian College, Engineering the for School dynamos theof Forestry, for heads deer three including and small, large gifts scientific specimens, books, and cash. When cash. and books, specimens, scientific artwork, land, of gifts with university the shaped has philanthropy centuries, two For nearly of diplomas. granting or the of alibrary, sharing the teaching, of art the than institution’s past the into deeper stretches however, that acustom began giving, their peoples were; thenative willing howindicate do notRecords benefactors. first the were Americans Native Michigania,” of “University fledgling to the land ceding By motion the richest custom at the University of Michigan. University at the custom richest motion the into were—set they as “X” marks, signatures—simple their Cass, Lewis governor 1817 in Ohio brokered by territorial northwest a treaty to sign in River Maumee the along gathered of Americans Native hen dozens President Alexander Ruthven (PhD 1906) (PhD Ruthven Alexander President Wilfred B. Shaw (AB 1904) Shaw B. Wilfred , the director director , the about about

for the University University the for of Michigan, well set up atradition established its in private support support private The practice of of The practice early days, has never broken. broken. never — WILFRED B. SHAW 7 Leaders & Best

:: h when a student and ­—bot BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL during connection my with the Board of Regents—a hospitality… generous .” Designed Albert by Kahn, the auditorium originally seated 4,300 guests. With its parabolic the interior, facility has exceptional acoustics—a theprerequisite of Board Regents of when seeking whisper designs. from “A the stage can be heard in any portion of this great the hall,” alumni wrote Shaw, relations director. Pursuit of Knowledge In compiling the inventory of philanthropy, ample credit gave Shaw to early came who donors forward a time at when the university was still and raw unorganized. These supporters,he said, claimed a kind ownership of this of new place learning. of Providing the tools of Hill’s bequest$200,000 left buildto a campus hall “for the gathering of the students and and college body, their friends, large on occasions such as graduating exercises and musical festivals; request that …I be open it to the Ann of people among I whom Arbor, enjoyed have

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Dr. William UpjohnDr. Regent Arthur Hill , a graduate the Medical of U-M HILL (MD 1875) 1913 The deathof School and the founder of Kalamazoo pharmaceutical firm would that bear his name, was enthusiast. a donated He plants from his extensive collection to in 1922.U-M birth to one of U-M’s most iconic andbirth U-M’s of one to structures. important botanical garden and . Located east campus of and the by bordered Huron River the to north to and Geddes Avenue the south, the land operated as both arb and gardens a decade. about for After that, faculty unhappy with the arboretum called separatefor botanical gardens. (Decades those would belater, named the Matthaei Botanical Gardens.) property The officially became Nichols the Arboretum during in 1923, a decade that numerousbrought plantings and gardens. is approximately Nichols acres. 123 Today’s A popular feature the of is its spectacular Peony Garden, itself a gift.

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NICHOLS ARBORETUM NICHOLS GATE Walter (BSChem 1891) and —he of Hill Auditorium Regent Arthur Hill (BSECiv gave 27 acres 27 the to gave University Michigan of in 1902, the was intent provide to a playing Ferry years Two football. for later, field his giftsupplemented with$9,500 for a brick-and-limestone wall surround to the piècefield. The de résistancewould be an ornamental the at gate northeast corner of and State Street. Avenue Hoover The wrought gate wasiron designthe Detroit noted of architect . While Ferry has since Field long given way to the to way the of sprawl Athletics Campus, the still gate stands—albeit in a new location—as a symbol athletics. of U-M distinction—donated the 80 acres to his alma mater. havingWith U-M established a School Forestryof Hill in 1903, importantit felt that students a living have laboratory and designated a tract land of five miles west Ann of The soil Arbor. was poor and thin, there trees, few were and much theof area had been extensively farmed. Still, 80 acres rural of land presented quite an opportunity the for young forestry program; within a year of the gift, 40 speciesof saplingsplanted studentsby and faculty taking were small complement to root stands of and . Hill, most successful the of one state’s lumbermen, lived his entire life in Saginaw, Michigan, and stipulated that the bear new forest the name his of hometown. Saginaw Forest remains a primary feature environmental of education and is operated the by School Forestry’sof descendant: the School of Natural Resources and Environment. 1904 When Detroit businessman when 1906 1906 Alumni 30 acres Ann of Arbor farmland a for Esther (BS 1894) 1865)

included: METEA the Shawnee the who signed the the signed who BLACK HOOFBLACK QUATAWAPEA TRIBAL CHIEFS CHIEFS TRIBAL MEIGS A ShawneeA chief CATAHECASSA CATAHECASSA Principal chief of of chief Principal A Potawatomi chief Potawatomi A THE FIRST 100 YEARS 1817 TREATY OF FORT

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NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS AMERICAN NATIVE after founding the Universityof ofthe Michigania in the riverfront trading post Detroit. of Between and 1936, 1825 university trustees the sold parcels to off debtspay supportand small a school that had been erected Bates on Street in Detroit.total The return realon estate amounted to $5,880. 1903 The SaginawForest wasneither in Saginaw rife nor with timber Most significantly,Most the universitywould from Detroitmove neighboring to County—a shiftWashtenaw triggered anby offer from the Ann Arbor Land Co. While hardly a selflesstwo offer, tracts proposed Ann by were Arbor’s businessmen; accept to voted regents a 40-acre alongside State plot Street. peach of A sprawl trees, wheat, and pasture, the parcel would become the campus. U-M’s of Board Regents. of The universitywould threehave departments learning: of literature, science, and the arts; law; and was exceedmedicine. to not $10, Tuition and student no would be turned if away (allhe students being male until1871) could not pay. When Michigan statehood entered spurred it thein January 1837, reorganization of the state’s lone university, including a governing 1837 Totaling 1,920 acres, 1,920 Totaling the land grant by tribes native three 1817 path the University Michigania of might have followed. Land and Landmarks Whether in Detroit Ann or Arbor, giftsof personal property private and wealth led signature to features the of university’s and look feel. the Without native tribes the of Lakes Great region theor business leaders Washtenaw of difficult it’s County, to imaginethe Leaders & Best 6

Watch a Watch 2013 video ; a Mexican mandolin mandolin Mexican a ; celebrating the organ at at organ the celebrating ldrsnb.st/lbFirst100 North American university. North American musical instruments at any it the largest assemblage of STEARNS COLLECTION mokugyo to 2,500 instruments, making making 2,500 instruments, to instruments. the At turn of the 20th century, he gave to collection 940-piece his continued and university the addto it to until his death in The uniqueness1907. of the ignored: be cannot instruments an 1875 porcelain violin from century 11th rare a Germany; Buddhist temple gong known as a trips. The collection has grown , the first metal instrument by Stearnsby himself on hunting Mi’kmaq Indian of Canada and used used and Canada of Indian Mi’kmaq moose call fashioned from bark a by shoko introduced into Japan; a double slide trombone dating from 1823 Paris; and a OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICAL the state and beyond help to purchase a great organ for the university. The organ pipe a for successful campaign fulfilled a longtime desire of UMS founder Henry Simmons who Frieze, also served interim as U-M’s president occasions. three on Through the years, Memorial the Frieze and reconstructed been has Organ expanded; of its now nearly pipes, 7,600 only a handful of the originals remain. But it remains a signature feature of music to commitment university’s the performance. and education 1899 Frederick Stearns (LSA 1876) was a Detroit manufacturer who traveled the globe collect to rare musical crafted from the entire shell of a turtle; a was from the Rogers Art Association a gift U-M to Pompeii Flower Girl of Nydia, the Blind to the Nydia FRIEZE NYDIA Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of caused such a stir that people was the work of Randolph Rogers,

Where early U-M leaders looked to the state to support “immediate educational such activities” as classrooms and laboratories, turned to they philanthropists for gifts to sustain cultural features. These were aspects of a university that “practical-mindeduniversity that necessarilynot would taxpayers” embrace. And yet, without libraries, museums, student unions, and the like, Michigan “would be an infinitely poorer place spiritually and culturally,” as Wilfred B. Shaw wrote in his 1930s history of giving at U-M. university. Still a feature of the U-M Museum of Art, it was the first significant work of art donated the to university. The magnificence of Hill Hill of magnificence The Auditorium is amplifiedby the majesty of the massive pipe organ that stands at the rear of the stage. Engineered and built in Detroit, the 3,901-pipe organ was designed for the Columbian 1893 World’s Exhibition in . Following the great the organfair, was apart, shipped taken Annto and Arbor, reassembled in In Hall. University 1913, with the opening of Hill, the great organ again was moved. Its place on the Michigan possible made was campus Musical University the by appealed which Society, across patrons music to 1861 A life-size statue was a sight unseen mostby Ann Arbor citizens at the start Theof the gift Civil War. of the marble sculpture Nydia 1893 CULTURE AND CREATIVITYCULTURE MEMORIAL ORGAN MEMORIAL an Ann Arbor-raised sculptor. U-M U-M sculptor. Arbor-raised Ann an faculty and Ann Arbor citizens together established the Randolph Rogers Art Association, raised the $1,700 asking price, and presented queued outside University Hall and paid a small admission fee observe to it. Pompeii

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to give to U-M his give to U-M to COLLECTION LABADIE COLLECTION thrilled with the which donation, laid the the Museum groundwork for U-M Naturalof History. “Theof regents the university are thus encouraged put to forth an enlightened zeal in the cause of science, and will build to endeavor up, in this young university the of north- west, a great and well-ordered museum that shall upon reflect honor the state,” wrote.Tappan remarkable collection of radical literature, materials that chronicled “the struggle the of underdog.” Labadie was the a member of Socialist Labor Party also who organized the firstreal labor union in Michigan, the Knights became He Labor. of known as “the gentle anarchist” because of his friendly ways. When contacted he the Board Regents of Labadie asked that hisin archive— 1911, rich in advocating communism, anarchy, and other radical strains—be treated had offered He fairly. the collectiononce said, he before, university but officials and faculty yet sufficiently not “were advanced in toleration, the principles of 1911 Sentiment compelled anarchist 1862 Neither flashy exotic,nor ores, the fluxes, manufacturedand donated iron during the Civil designated were War thefor university’s geology and mineralogy collections. What was notable werethe donors: Eber Ward Owen (BS 1860) Aaron Cone Jewett 1862) (AB OF IRON ORES OF IRON graduates the of university, making their gifts the U-Mfirst alumni.ever by made Owen was an graduate 1860 LSA; of Jewett received his degree two years later. Since their gifts1862,year a not in has passed without support from Michigan graduates. Jo LabadieJo

OBSERVATORY PAINTING: JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY VISUAL MATERIALS, BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. RANDOLPH ROGERS, NYDIA, THE BLIND FLOWER GIRL OF POMPEII , 1861, CARRARA MARBLE, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART, GIFT OF ROGERS ART ASSOCIATION, 1862.1; PHOTO BY ROBERT LANE OF SALINE, MICHIGAN.

Henry e job wase job Lt. William –57. Th ­–57. , Detroiters spent all spent year one of contributedto $15,000 build and equipwhat thewould of be one world’s most advanced Walker observatories. Tappan They did. Ledby responded naming by the facility in their the honor; possible. stood on ZOOLOGY SPECIMENS money for the finest telescope a hilltop a half-mile from the help, Tappan was direct: Tappan help, Raise northeastern edge campus. of how the Detroithow of people could businessman asked the new leader While medical buildings and residence Afterward,prominent Detroit a when as a U-M facultyas a U-M teaching member, mathematics in 1856 what expected—there he not is no what, of record exactly, had he hoped for—andreturnto left he to the Army. hisBefore year in Ann however, Arbor, was stationedTrowbridge along the Pacific coastlineUnitedof States. the In his spare time, collected he thousands of amphibian and reptile specimens, which the to donated he Smithsonian Institution. After consulting Trowbridge,with Smithsonian leaders forwarded the vast collection a native Troy, of U-M; to Michigan, Trowbridge wanted the specimens his to state. go to home Henry a vocalPresident Tappan, advocate scientific of research, was P. Trowbridge P. 1859 A graduate the of Military U.S. Point, West at Academy of Historic Places. halls today dwarf the Observatory, its telescope still functions and the building is open regularly public for tours. the sits on It National Register university thrive to as a true research institution, needed it an observatory.

was an 1890 gift people. To learn how theTo history of the ObservatoryDetroit shaped U-M, enjoy the video at ldrsnb.st/DetroitObservatory HUTCHINS (AB 1871) belongs to the to belongs THE FIRST 100 YEARS The university — U-M PRESIDENT HARRY The Detroit Observatory of the the interests of the of the interests willing to work for willing for work to Jasper F. Cropsey’s 1855Jasper painting F. people and is always to U-Mto from Andrew Dickson White. University of Michigan

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made clear it that the for regarded German encyclopedia set, had Ann yetto to U-M where Arbor, its offer first class.But with his Borup shipped Brockhaus’s Konversations-Lexikon anddonation several thousand books purchased the for university in Europe botanyby professor “You have a family have yourself“You and well know the anxiety a parent must for feel his children’s education,” Borup wrote. Borup and his wife, Elizabeth, had at least six children. an educated Dane wanted who seeto that his children also experienced the learning. of joys While living in an American Fur Co. outpost in the Wisconsin on Territory the western Lake of shore Superior, Borup persuaded his boss provide to a governess teach to his children. had a solid scholarly foundation for The The Borup gift can stillfound be in Special CollectionsU-M’s Library. its fledgling library. 1854 On the day was he inaugurated as first president, U-M’s Charles W.W. Borup KONVERSATIONS- The first recorded gift from an individual came from a well-to-do fur trader set never who in foot Ann Arbor. 1840 learning—scientific specimens, books, telescopes—gave a stake one in the future. from the “Almost first, despite the lack assistance of from the state, the university became an institution the of people. real A sense responsibility of their on part was developed.” LEXIKON Tappan Leaders & Best 8

, by Lewis O. Saum. Levi Barbour wanted from women of Graduateof Studies. U-M’s gift created Barbour’s firstsignificant fellowshipfor international students. “Theideaof the Oriental girls’ scholarships is bring to BARBOUR Asian nations experience to a U-M education. Originally designated undergraduates,for the Barbour Scholarships began attract to graduate students seeking their . In 1948, the award became a graduate scholarship, which today is administered the by Rackham School girls from the Orient, give them an Occidental education and let them take back whatever they findgood and assimilate the blessings among the from people which they came,” Barbour President wrote U-M to Harry B. Hutchins. Barbour had sisters no daughters, or wasbut adamant having women about equal access higher to education; doing so “would raise the standard of wrote. he the and society,” of home Hundreds from China, women of India, Sumatra,Japan, Turkey, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines have called themselves Barbour Scholars. SCHOLARSHIPS While admitted U-M its first international students beginning in the until late 1840s, wasn’t it the 20th century that a specific scholarship was available attract to scholars from other countries. Alumnus and Regent Kim Clarke director of is U-M’s bicentennial communications. be a women’s hall. stands It be a women’s along the Newberryold Hall, the now Kelsey Museum Archaeology. of 1917 (LLB 1865) , by Kent Sagendorph; The Fur Trader and the Indian

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—offered a Helen H. John S. donated $18,000 for a for $18,000 donated HELEN NEWBERRY , by Albert A. Stanley; Michigan: The Story of the University Newberry Newberry building late husband, her honor to alumnus John S. Newberry 1847, (AB the result wasAM Newberry 1854); Hall, a Richardsonian Romanesque structure that housed the Student Christian the Association. latest Now, Newberry giftwould establish the first residence hall students, U-M for male female. or NewberryHelen Residence opened in and continuesthe to summer 1915 of 1913 theAt turn the of 20th century, female students lived in either sorority houses a scattering or 30-plus of private rooming houses in Ann Arbor that were inspected, and approved, supervised theby dean While women. of adequate, the system provided few opportunities for women trulyto live and together work as scholars. when That changed1913 in three siblings— gift of $75,000 dormitory.for a women’s They wanted hallthe to be named in memory their Handy of Helen mother, Newberry. decades earlier, Two Newberry, Truman H. Newberry, Newberry, H. Truman Newberry, and Helen Newberry Joy at theat university in the nascent days theof 1900s. the of “Most stronger universities received sums have the for a considerable number of endowment such fellowships,of which secure the attendance brilliant of and promising scholars,” James President B. Angell said in 1904 in his annual report the to good many our of Board Regents. of “A most gifted graduates are thus every year called other to away institutions.” Whittier FellowshipToday’s is awarded advancedto graduate students of plant biology. RESIDENCE left Joseph B. Whittier ANGELINE B. WHITTIER B. WHITTIER ANGELINE FELLOWSHIP 1903 When died he Saginaw in 1903, businessman instructions in his will that $4,000 be the to donated university a endow to botany fellowship in memory his of Angeline.mother, Whittier attended the university two for years shortly after CivilWarthe never but graduated; become to a lumber on and went he salt manufacturer in Saginaw, Michigan. Within months receivingof the endowment, the Department Botany of awarded a $200 stipend the to first Whittier Fellow in Botany—Alfred Dachnowski, would who earn his U-M in 1906. His fellowship came a timeat students when U-M spent $400about a year classes, on housing, meals. and The Whittier gift of one only a was handful fellowships of being established “Detroit Observatory: Nineteenth-Century Training Ground for Astronomers,” by Patricia S. Whitesell; “Clara Harrison Stranahan: Donor of the ‘Seth Harrison Fund,’ Michigan’s First Scholarship Endowment,” by by Endowment,” Scholarship First Michigan’s Fund,’ Harrison ‘Seth the of Donor Stranahan: Harrison “Clara Whitesell; S. Patricia by Astronomers,” for Ground Training Nineteenth-Century Observatory: “Detroit Bethany Lovell Wilson; Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments

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, by Elizabeth M. Farrand; had no connection ELIZABETH BATES BATES ELIZABETH WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND WOMEN with the University Michigan. of she But did its a fondness actions. have for When physician died,she left the York New estate—“a pileher gilt-edged of securities,” in writer— the one of words create to its first U-M for endowed professorship. For more on this story, turn page to 30. PROFESSORSHIP OF THE DISEASES OF DISEASES THE PROFESSORSHIP OF Dr. ElizabethDr. Bates 1898 1898 Like Clara Harrison Stranahan and a number earlyof benefactors, aid would “forever” be moot; however, repentance“genuine and contrition” could revive the support. those For excelled who recipients and graduated, Stranahan each provided for year $50 of study as a sort gift. commencement of The scholarship was the first to be and has U-M at beenendowed awarded dozensto Harrison of descendants, most academicrecently year. in the 2012–13 , a Brooklyn intellectual training women,” for proclaimed the trustees Barnard of College afterher death 1905. “She wasin a constant our of cause.” wealthHer came via husband, her Barbour Scholars in the academic year 1942–43 Stranahan S.T. James congressman and business magnate. She had known no connection Michigan, to either state university. she or But decision apparently appreciated U-M’s contacted she admit to in 1889, women; JamesPresident B. Angell about establishing scholarships any progeny for Seth father, her of Harrison. With 10 children, grandchildren Harrison’s and great-grandchildren could be expected provideto generations offspring. of (Having married later in life, Clara Stranahan had children.) no mailedShe a $25,000 check Angell to andplaced in additional few 1895 stipulations on potential scholarship recipients. If a student did graduate, not education is far“some better than Should a student be expelled,none.” any Wilfred B. Shaw; University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey, Wilfred B. Shaw, ed.; History of the University of Michigan This article was drawn chiefly from Support of the University of Michigan: From Sources Other Than Public Funds or Student Fees, 1817–1934

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Clara Harrison Stranahan Harrison Clara A grande dame the of Victorian era laid the financial groundwork for to aid support Michigan students. 1895 The The earliest supportof students endowed and faculty came from strangers— with State women no two York New connection each to other Ann to or WhatArbor. bonded them was their appreciation decision for U-M’s in admit to Their women. respective 1870 gifts beganlegacy a that has evolved into thousands chairs, endowed of fellowships, and scholarships all on three U-M campuses. Supporting Scholars The The Labadie Collection, partU-M’s of Special Collections Library, today is the country’s oldest collection radical of literature. freedom and in knowledge…and HarryPresident Hutchins assured Labadie his collection was welcome. “The universityto belongs the people and is always willing the for work to interests the of people; can what do to it in the giving of way informationand in the general of work uplifting.” But he wanted U-M to have the wanted have to he But U-M collection, because his family had called Michigan nearly for 200 home years and because his Charlotte daughter, (AB was currently a senior. 1912), that then donated if might were it it be in garret away some stowed and forever.” lost probably SCHOLARSHIPS friend Andrew of Carnegie, founding trustee Barnard of College,arts patron City—led a life privilege of York New of that was preceded a career by as a “Experiencedteacher. she as an educator, possessed a strong the appreciation of great value complete more and of power Leaders & Best 10 ORIGINS OF FUNDRAISING Have Your PRESIDENT Call on Me

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF MYRTLE WHITE GODWIN, WILLIAM W. COOK, AND THE LASTING IMPACT OF FUNDRAISERS Above: Myrtle White, from The , 1910 Left: William W. Cook

William W. Cook (AB 1880, LLB ’82) was what important than those schools and anything that It was 1910. At U-M, students were some might call an eccentric. His contemporaries tends to elevate them tends to perpetuate American pressuring the Board of Regents and described him as brilliant yet reclusive, institutions.” When Cook died in 1930 following U-M President gregarious yet discerning. He lived alone after a decade-long battle with tuberculosis, he left (AB 1871) for a women’s dormitory. At divorcing early in life and never remarried—odd everything to Michigan Law. the time, sorority and boarding houses for a man of his time, had made up the majority of student place, and station. But In today’s dollars, Cook’s housing for women. While this system at the turn of the 20th gifts to U-M would had been adequate for a time, there century, Cook was exceed $250 million. They was mounting need for university- nonetheless well known provided funding for the sponsored accommodations. Students and well regarded in New John P. Cook Dormitory, at U-M set out to raise funds to make York City and beyond. named for his father; the the project a reality. He was a respected Legal Research Building, scholarly writer, general home to the Reading Hutchins and the Regents encouraged counsel to John Mackay’s Room and Law Library; the students’ mission, but they were telegraph and cable and Hutchins Hall. These mindful of the potential problems that companies, and one of came in addition to the inexperienced student fundraisers the most influential men Lawyers Club, which could cause. In the infancy of of his era in corporate The , designed in the The Times development at the university, they Collegiate Gothic style, was the second law. His success and called “one of the finest wondered: Would student fundraisers women’s dormitory built on campus. his considerable wealth It opened its doors in 1915. buildings of its kind on understand the nuances of “the ask”? almost guarantee that any campus in the world.” What if they asked for too much, or Cook would have been Together, they completed too little? Despite their concerns, well known in Ann Arbor, where he the Law Quadrangle, later dedicated in Cook’s Hutchins—like President James B. graduated from the University of Michigan name. It still stands at the heart of the Ann Arbor Angell before him—believed that and its Law School. campus, an iconic monument to its benefactor’s private support could be the key to grand vision and particular tastes. elevating the university to new heights. But the most remarkable thing about Cook may have been his dedication to an ideal. He believed Just as remarkable as the story’s conclusion is its Myrtle Elizabeth White (AB 1910), that the legal academy was the genesis of law, beginning, 20 years prior to Cook’s death. It’s the a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma order, and moral conduct in American society, story of how Cook was reunited with his alma and vice president of the Women’s and that its cultivation was paramount to a mater. It begins with a young woman arriving at Athletic Association, graduated at healthy democracy. “[T]he character of the legal his Wall Street office, armed with blueprints for this opportune moment. She had profession depends largely on the law schools,” a women’s dormitory and a letter penned by her served as treasurer of the Women’s he wrote. “Hence in my opinion nothing is more alma mater’s president. League for two years, and her

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THE WOMEN OF fundraising accomplishments already expectations. But Cook’s will shows that REFLECTIONS included securing $3,000 from Thomas his commitment to Michigan was nothing THE MARTHA W. Palmer (AB 1849) to clear the debt on short of true blue. COOK BUILDING FROM JERRY MAY the Women’s Athletic Field, later renamed Vice President for Development for its benefactor. At the encouragement “I trust that this gift of my residuary estate of President Angell, White had traveled may cause others to realize that the MARTHA History shows Myrtle White Godwin throughout the state of Michigan in the university can no longer be extended in COOK, BY to have been a model fundraiser and a summer of 1909 as a volunteer fundraiser its main developments by state taxation HENRI champion of her university. Her story— for U-M. She was young, capable, and alone,” he wrote. “If its standards of CARO- and its fateful intersection with William resourceful—an ideal fundraiser for the scholarship and mental discipline, and DELVAILLE W. Cook’s—illustrates the tremendous women’s dormitories project. MARTHA COOK BUILDING: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHS VERTICAL FILE, BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; WILLIAM COOK: MARTHA COOK BUILDING RECORDS, BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN its service to the state and nation, are to impact that fundraisers can have at be maintained and advanced, they should William Cook’s a public university like ours. After mother and all, it was that first conversation After White graduated, the Regents be generous in their financial support. That the building’s authorized the Women’s League to pay her university is and should be the pride of the namesake, Martha with Myrtle that enlightened Cook to to visit college dormitories at the University state of Michigan.” Wolford Cook, the positive change his generosity of Chicago, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and presides over could impart on his alma mater and Simmons College. Later that year, they As for White, she would later become the building’s the world. In the past two centuries, Red Room. recruited White to travel to . Myrtle White Godwin, the wife of a fundraisers like Myrtle have ensured There she called on prominent alumni for successful physician, Dean E. that philanthropists like Cook stay donations. “I was armed with the blueprints Postcard of the Martha Cook Building (ca. 1915). The building was designed by architecture Godwin (MD 1909). She wrote fondly of connected to the university. Their of the dream dormitory we had worked firm York and Sawyer of New York. The same firm would later design the Law Quadrangle. Ann Arbor and remained connected to the efforts have helped elevate U-M from up, and a convincing story of the student university. It wasn’t until late 1931 that she PORTIA, humble beginnings to a world-class housing need in Ann Arbor,” she later breadth of knowledge and the earnestness only shortly after the Helen Newberry played a miraculous role in the conclusion BY ATTILIO institution with iconic campuses, wrote to her 1910 classmates. of her request. Over an hour’s conference, Residence, the first women’s dormitory on of Cook’s winding story. AND FURIO global influence, and an endowment he probed with questions and picked away campus. At a cost of $400,000, the Martha PICCIRILLI of nearly $10 billion. White began writing to alumni with at her blueprints. Finally, he promised her Cook Building was beautiful and spacious, Cook’s ex-wife, Ida Olmstead, emerged The heroine of requests for interviews, and Hutchins a gift. “Have your president call on me,” and would over time become a beloved shortly after his death to claim half of Shakespeare’s The Each year, U-M recognizes the drafted a letter to help drum up more he instructed. mainstay in Ann Arbor. Although they his estate. It shocked the Regents and left Merchant of Venice contributions of exceptional university stands over the interest. “The University of Michigan was never met him, the residents of Martha the university reeling. Myrtle, through building’s front champions with the David B. Hermelin the first of the great universities of the A month later, President Hutchins would Cook made sure that Mr. Cook always persistence and a little luck, discovered that door. Cook called Award for Fundraising Volunteer country to open its doors to women,” his secure Cook’s promise to contribute received flowers for his birthday. Olmstead was willing to settle for much her Shakespeare’s Leadership, the highest award given letter began. “From that time to the present, $10,000 for a women’s dormitory. “This less outside of court. The university avoided greatest lawyer. by the university to fundraising this university has exercised a dominating news will doubtless be very acceptable to The building marked the beginning of a costly legal defense of Cook’s will and volunteers. The commitment and influence in co-educational matters. We you and give you great encouragement,” a long and fruitful relationship between Myrtle—decades after her first meeting passion that drove Myrtle White have now in attendance seven hundred Hutchins wrote to White. “The subscription Cook and the university. He later funded with Cook—helped preserve his gifts to the Godwin more than a century ago and fifty young women. The time has come is undoubtedly due principally to your the construction of the four-building university. It was a fitting final chapter in THE LADY OF THE continue to drive those volunteer when certain economic and social needs of efforts.” In Ann Arbor, her success was Law Quadrangle, an odyssey recalled in her storied contributions to Michigan. GARDEN, BY PAUL fundraisers to this day. Unlike Myrtle, the women must receive our attention.” making headlines of its own. The Michigan Margaret Leary’s Giving It All Away: The SUTTMAN they receive no remuneration for their efforts. Like Myrtle, they speak Daily heralded her return in late February Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Myrtle White Godwin’s early cultivation of Commissioned Letter in hand, White garnered the support 1911. “SECRETARY PAYS VISIT TO Law Quadrangle (2011). William Cook’s legacy helped transform a by alumnae and eloquently and effectively about the of a few alumni, who collectively pledged ANN ARBOR — Says Campaign Has fledgling campus into a robust and iconic friends for the needs of the day. They frequently help some $3,000 to her cause. Then on January Been Successful — All Are Enthusiastic,” In the years leading up to his death, many institution. That process required decades residence hall’s friends of the university understand 15, 1911, she found herself at the heart of the front page read. White soon departed feared that Cook would rescind his of careful management and the concerted 50th anniversary, how, by supporting U-M, they can bring “Eve” watches over about positive social change in areas Wall Street. Her appointment that morning for Omaha, Nebraska, to continue her million-dollar promises to the Law efforts of many people, including several the grounds. was with William Wilson Cook. campaign, not realizing at the time that School. Some considered him prickly, regents and three U-M presidents. But it of great importance to them. I’d like to her fundraising mission would soon temperamental, and unpredictable. A close began with a fundraiser fresh out of college. acknowledge White began their meeting with a prove complete. friend once described him as “a strange (1910); MARTHA COOK PORTRAIT: JENNA ROBY (LSA CLASS OF 2018); PORTIA: DWIGHT BURDETTE She found herself at the heart of Wall our fundraisers cogent explanation of the advantages of composite of the urbane and the tyrannical, Street, armed only with her blueprints and For an interview with Margaret Leary, author of alongside Myrtle dormitories over boarding houses, which Under Hutchins’ patient stewardship, Cook the generous and the suspicious, the a letter from her university’s president. Giving It All Away, visit ldrsnb.st/FirstVolunteer and Cook’s she had lived in as an undergraduate. eventually agreed to fund the dormitory dreamer and the dictator.” He repeatedly story now as a

THE MICHIGANENSIAN THE Thanks to her travels and her fundraising project in full, including furnishings. refused offers to visit Ann Arbor and see Sources for this story include Margaret Leary’s book Giving reminder of what It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Support the Martha Cook Building, experience, White’s pitch was eloquent and Named after Cook’s late mother, the his creations for himself; he feared that Law Quadrangle (2011); two articles by James Tobin (AB your efforts can ’78, AM ’79, PhD ’86): “Mr. Cook’s Women,” featured in visit ldrsnb.st/MCBfunds convincing. Cook was delighted by her Martha Cook Building opened in 1915— they couldn’t possibly live up to his lofty MYRTLE WHITE: accomplish. Michigan Today, and “When Heads Rolled,” written for the University of Michigan Heritage Project; and the papers of Myrtle White Godwin, part of the Bentley Historical Library collection. 15 14 Leaders & Best :: BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL :: Leaders & Best Detroit Observatory 1854 The Observatory was at the heart of scientific research as the first WALTRAUD “WALLY” dedicated research laboratory on PRECHTER (ABEd ’79) campus and was home to the discovery In 2001, Prechter founded of 21 asteroids and two comets. the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund following the death of her husband Heinz C. KENNETH (AM ’95, PhD ’01) AND JEANNE D. The University of Michigan’s Prechter. The fund aims to find (AB ’76, AM ’81, MSW ’82) LEVY-CHURCH customized and personalized In 2014, the couple bequeathed $10 million to treatments for individuals living create the Ken and Jeanne Levy-Church Fund to with bipolar disorder. Improve Cardiovascular Access. The initiative campus is ever changing. In the helps patients and families with expenses related The class of to care, improves access to clinical trials, and The Block “M” was a gift Students adopted “azure blue and 1858 planted 50 provides support for innovative technology. of the Class of 1953 to U-M maize” as the school colors in 1867 young maples. last 200 years, philanthropy has President and placed in the spot were the FRANCES (ABEd ’64, TeachCert ’64) CHARLES T. MUNGER two diagonal walks cross. The literary AND KENNETH (AB ’64) EISENBERG (LSA ’43, LLD Hon ’10) faculty donated To help accelerate the development of The philanthropist, 42 elms. personalized treatments necessary to shaped the landscape of this investor, and U-M alumnus conquer clinical depression, bipolar gave $110 million in Two nurserymen disorder, and related illnesses, the 2013 for a state-of-the-art from New York In 2014, a bur oak was given Eisenbergs gave $10.75 million in 2016 graduate residence which 1857 . sent a gift of by students, faculty and to the U-M Depression Center. great university. Philanthropic was named in his honor. 60 trees. staff to commemorate the inauguration of Mark S. Schlissel as Michigan’s 14th president. To make the campus—then consisting The connections formed contributions, of four buildings on a flat enclosure of 40 acres—more aesthetically The Diag derives its through time with just one act of appealing and a fit place for learning, name from the many T H R O U G H philanthropy can’t be predicted, so Professor Andrew Dickson White took sidewalks running though initially it upon himself to plant trees on the near or through it in take a small glimpse into some of Diag without permission or funding. diagonal directions. the ways yesterday’s connections intended have inspired the connections of CONNECTIONS today, which in turn will inspire to create (BS ’90, MD ’93, MedRes ’93, those of tomorrow. Though difficult LHD Hon ’12) is the Emmy award-winning WILLIAM K. (BS ’50, MS ’52, chief medical correspondent for CNN. to document every connection, change in one LLD Hon ’13) AND DOLORES BREHM Antonia Novello (MedRes ’74, In 2004, the Brehms gave a LLD Hon ’94) was the first female— In 2015, the U-M Food $44 million gift to Michigan or those of the future, know that and first Hispanic—U.S. surgeon Allergy Center was named . The gift provided funds general of the , the connections your contributions the Mary H. Weiser Food for the Brehm Center for TIME or a few areas 1990–93. Allergy Center in recognition Research, several faculty positions, In 1869, U-M opened the have etched in U-M’s history make of Mary Weiser’s advocacy and a research facility to be built William J. Mayo first university-owned medical facility for food allergy awareness. as part of the expansion of the (MD 1883) co-founder in the United States. The 20-bed a difference, and will continue to do Kellogg Eye Center. of the . of the university, hospital was located in the residence so in the years to come. of a former professor. It had no patient wards or operating rooms. MARY AND MARC A. (BSE ’95, MBA ’00) WEISER NOTABLE have in fact— ALUMNI Provided $500,000, REGENT RON (BBA ’66) AND bringing the family’s total EILEEN L. (MMus ’75) WEISER gift to the Food Allergy U-M Medical The Weisers have made many Center to $10 million. 1848 School unknowingly or unexpectedly— significant gifts to areas Opened in 1850 with more across U-M. One recent gift than 100 students. They of $50 million included were charged $5 a year for $9.5 million for the Food two years of education. weaved webs of change Allergy Center. In 2017, this became the name for the MADELINE AND SIDNEY FORBES all-encompassing health system at U-M. throughout U-M’s history. It expresses U-M’s excellence in research, In 2016, they gave $17.5 million In 1890, U-M for cancer research. The largest medical education, and patient care. established the private donation for cancer first four-year research in U-M history, the gift NATHAN (AB ’85) AND CATHERINE FORBES medical school created the Forbes Institute for The Forbes host and help fund Michigan curriculum in Cancer Discovery within the U-M Medicine’s annual Maize and Blue Go Pink event, the U.S. Comprehensive Cancer Center. which raises money for breast cancer research.

The generous donors mentioned have given to many areas of the university. 2 Leaders & Best :: SEASON TK 2000 The chronology highlights just one way each of these donors has made a difference. New York Harry Burns Hutchins ROBERT B. AIKENS (JD ’54) Philharmonic foundation’s generous donation toward JEFF T. BLAU (BBA ’90) JANE CAPLAN OCH (BBA ’86, STEPHEN W. (MBA ’70) The Avenir Foundation Room, Dean of the Law School from In 2010, Aikens made a $10 million 2 Dworsky had the idea to put Inspired by Stephen Ross, Blau gave MAcc ’86) AND DANIEL OCH AND KAREN SANGER became the primary reading room upon the 1895 to 1910 and the fourth Dworsky was a STEPHEN M. ROSS the renovationnamed and expansion in recognition project, of the Clements Library gift to build the Robert B. Aikens the Block M on the east $4 million to the Ross School in 2006 and The Och Initiative for Women in Gave $20 million to the Ross Jose Celso Barbosa Hutchins Hall was the U-M president from four-year starter (BBA ’62, LLD Hon ’11) Commons, which at that time was an additional $5 million in 2014. A new Finance increases awareness about School in 2015 to create the 2009 (MD 1880), U-M’s first is what Albert Kahn last of Cook’s gifts of 1919 to 1920. side of the bleachers inside for coach Fritz They carried three U-M items: a In 2013, Ross made Yo-Yo Ma Martha Cook the largest single gift ever given by a academic building—built as part of the Ross careers, and access to those careers, Sanger Leadership Center. Elton wanted most to be buildings to U-M. It was . Crisler’s football university history with the Puerto Rican student, library’s re-opening in Residence has many living graduate of the Law School. miniature U-M flag, a miniature School’s 2014-2016 construction project— for women in finance. It was made The new center expands the John remembered for. named after Harry Burns team (1945–1947). largest gift ever to U-M— enrolled in 1877 and unique traditions, Hobart Taylor, Jr. seal of the U-M Department of was named in honor of his commitment. possible by a gift from the Jane and school’s successful leadership Hutchins, the person The Jeff T. Blau Hall opened in . $200 million­—supporting received a medical including a weekly 1 (JD ’43), coined the Aerospace Engineering, and a fall 2016 Daniel Och Family Foundation in 2014. development programming. degree in 1880. most responsible for charter of the U-M Alumni Club Michigan Athletics and the Library in the Italian Renaissance Friday night tea. term “affirmative action” ALUM NOTABLE Kahn designed the Clements The John P. Cook Cook’s gift of the (BArch ’50) of the Moon, which were left on Ross School. In 2004, the PERFORMANCES style based on Vignola’s casino Dormitory opened in after President John “The HouseCrisler that Center Cazzie is also Built,” known for as school was named after Ross ALUM The Rogels have given to many for the Villa Farnese, ca. Law School. U-M star One of two architects involved in the moon. ALUM William Davidson Player Development Center AT HILL April 2016. 1930 and was named after F. Kennedy appointed (School of Education ’66, AB ’92) the construction, he was tasked in honor of his $100 million areas of Michigan Medicine. The Martha Cook Residence opened ALUM him to the President’s the No. 1 pick in the 1966 NBA draft. Col. James Irwin, (MSE ’57, The William Davidson Foundation provided a leadership Cook’s father, John P. with the design, preliminary gift for the construction of its ALUM They also created a $22 million in 1915. It was Cook’s first gift to U-M. ScD Hon ’71), lunar module pilot gift of $7.5 million in support of the Athletic Department. Cook, who was prominent Commission on Equal drawings, and selection of new modern building. scholarship fund in 2000 for The first women’s dorm at Michigan, Crisler introduced Opened in 2009, the facility was named in honor in the Territory and later Employment Opportunity. materials. students who, like Rich Rogel, 1909 it was a significant emblem of U-M’s Law Quadrangle the distinctive winged William Davidson (BBA ’47, LLD Hon ’01). Caprarola, Italy. the State of Michigan. Col. David R. Scott (DAstroSci ROSSSTEPHEN SCHOOL OFM. come to U-M from out of state. commitment to educating women. The entire collection of buildings in the football helmet to the Hon ’71), spacecraft commander PAUL (BBA ’86) AND AMY BLAVIN 1587 Law Quad was built, and then donated to BUSINESS The Blavins gave $2 million , in in 1938. The Michigan The William L. Clements Library the university, by William W. Cook. The to endow the Blavin Scholarship ALUM football team has worn Maj. Alfred Worden, ALUM Martha Wolford Cook four buildings that make up the Law Herbert Orin for students who have experienced RICH (BBA 40, LLD Hon ’09) Karen Davidson Named after William L. Clements (1882, LLD Hon ’34), , 1967 a version of the design (MSE ’63, DAstroSci Hon ’71), 1913 In 2016, the library William Cook’s mother, for Quadrangle—the Lawyers Club, the John “Fritz” Crisler time in foster care in Michigan. AND SUSAN ROGEL (BGS ’89), continues U-M regent from 1909–33. In 1920, Clements offered ever since. command module pilot . re-opened after a whom the Martha Cook P. Cook Dormitory, the Legal Research They have given generously to their support his collection of rare books and works of early was many areas across U-M. One recent two-year, $17 million Residence is named. Building, and Hutchins Hall—were In 2013, the for U-M. and movies Americana to U-M along with $190,000 to build renovated three gift of $50 million included $30 Chicago Arthur Hill Auditorium restoration. constructed during the decade 1923–33 on Crisler Center Zell Family gave ZELL LURIE INSTITUTE and furnish a suitable home for it. times: 1998, 2001, n’s football c million for scholarships at the two city blocks purchased by the university. iga oa (AB ’63, and Opened in 1913, the auditorium was named WILLIAM W. COOK 4 with 2012 being Formerly known as Crisler Arena when it ch ch $60 million in acted in TV shows such i f Charles R. Walgreen Medical School and $10 million in Elementary, M ro endowed support to JD ’66, LLD Hon ’05) and ’90) after Arthur Hill (BSECiv 1865), U-M regent (AB 1880, JD 1882) the most notable opened in 1967, the arena is a tribute to m support of the Center for Chinese The William W. Cook Legal Drama Center and 55, LHD Hon ’71) 1 the institute. Ann Lurie—wife of the late ’ from 1901–13. Hill bequeathed $200,000 William Wilson Cook, of Hillsdale, renovation Herbert O. “Fritz” Crisler and his many 9 Apollo 15 Studies in LSA. Research Building opened after 3 entrepreneur Robert Lurie Named after Charles Walgreen, Jr. for the building. The acoustics of Hill Mich., was the preeminent writer contributions to Michigan Athletics. In 2012, 8 - Flew to the moon from Charlie’s Angels Cook’s death in 1930. 4 (BSE ’64, MSE ’66)­­­­­­—established (PhC ’28, MS Hon ’51, LHD Hon ’92) who,

Auditorium are known worldwide. on corporation law of his time. the arena was renovated to include the 7

. July 26 until August 7, 1971. Lucy LiuAlly (ABMcBeal the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie with his wife Jean, donated $10 million He almost single-handedly William Davidson Player Development Center as 3 It was the first expedition Institute for Entrepreneurial NOTABLE THEATRE ALUMNI recognized and then developed and was renamed Crisler Center. for the construction of the drama center, including with a lunar rover vehicle and Studies in the Ross School. which houses the Arthur Miller Theatre. 3 the law particularly relating to The Lawyers Club and Dormitory Through the years, Arthur Hill Auditorium 1913 the first flight with all three James Earl Jones (AB the Frieze Memorial stock and stockholders. opened in fall 1924. The news The Charles Baird Carillon is mounted Arthur 8 astronauts from the In 2005, the Harry A. and Margaret D. was the first African American to give a Organ has been made the New York Times top atop the . Miller Theatre lead performance in an SMTD play. reconstructed Clements same university. Towsley Foundation donated and expanded. Library 1923 and center of the Sunday, The carillon of 53 bells was a gift from UM–Flint $1.5 million toward the construction Named after Arthur Miller Only a few of the September 21, 1924, paper. Charles M. Baird (LLB 1895), a lawyer (AB ’38, LHD Hon ’56), the original pipes est. 1956 of the Walgreen Drama Center. Within remain. and U-M’s first athletic director. Pulitzer Prize-winning American 1930 the center is the Towsley Musical 2007 UM–Dearborn playwright who wrote “Death of a Named for U-M President Marion Theatre Studio, where students and est. 1959 Salesman” and “The Crucible.” LeRoy Burton (1920–25). faculty of musical theatre rehearse.

A. ALFRED TAUBMAN (TAUBMAN COLLEGE ’48, LLD Hon ’91) Taubman generously provided support to many areas of U-M. BRYAN P. (BBA ’73, MBA ’75) STANLEY D. (AB ’63, MBA ’64) In 1999, he gave the single largest gift ever to a U.S. architecture For example, the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building AND KATHLEEN M. (ABEd ’72, AND JUDITH (LSA ’63) FRANKEL Bo Schembeckler school. His gift of $30 million led to the naming of the A. Alfred was named in recognition of his transformative 2011 gift to U-M’s 6 The Frankels generously support numerous Coached Michigan football TeachCert ’72) MARSAL Built in 1903, the Delta Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. A. Alfred Taubman Institute. 2004 Betsy Barbour programs within the Jean & Samuel Frankel from 1969–1989 and In 2015, the Marsals gave $5 million House 1917 Upsilon Fraternity House 16 The Burton to the School of Education to help support Center for Judaic Studies, as well as was athletic director from is the oldest residential Memorial Tower 1936 and prepare education students for their other areas of U-M. They established 1988–1990. He coached 21 fraternity/sorority house Gerald R. Ford (AB ’35, LLD Hon ’74) Ford School of Public Policy careers, and $5 million to the Athletic the Stanley D. Frankel Summer seasons as the head coach at U-M still occupied by Played center from 1931–34 and was In 2009, the Ted and In 1999, the school was named in honor Department’s Center for Leadership Fellowship in 2005 supporting of the Michigan Wolverines. MICHIGAN FOOTBALL the organization which The Samuel and Jean (School a three-year letter winner. His teams Jane Von Voigtlander In 2011, the new of Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President Development & Career Preparation. Albert Kahn research in Europe, Israel, constructed it. Frankel Foundation 1938 of Kinesiology ’97) enjoyed consecutive undefeated national Foundation gave a C.S. Mott Children’s of the United States and a 1935 The foremost American industrial and Latin America. Played from 1995–1997. provided $50 million The University Musical Society (UMS) championship seasons in 1932 and 1933. gift of $15 million Hospital and Von graduate of U-M. PENNY W. (BSDes ’66, TeachCert ’66) architect of his day. He designed offices are located in Burton Tower. The 1997 Heisman Trophy 1 15 in support of the U-M to support the Voigtlander Women’s AND E. ROE STAMPS 17 campus buildings and 5 Greek Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies winner, he was drafted to JOAN AND Engineering Building University Museums Cardiovascular Center, which construction of the Hospital opened. SANFORD WEILL In honor of the visionary philanthropists, 1904 (now West Hall) Organization buildings for U-M. Building 1928 The Horace and Mary Rackham Fund’s trustees, with Mary Rackham, the NFL in 1998. Ford was a three-year letterman opened in 2007. In 2013, the new women’s hospital, In 2004, the Weills the art and design school was renamed gave U-M $6.5 million, of which $2.5 million was to build a home for as a center and . the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & 2 4 12 17 center was named the which was named after and the Weill Family the Graduate School. In 1938, the school was named in honor of Horace He was named Most Valuable Both Hannah Design (A&D). The couple gave a total 1917 Psychopathic Hospital Helen Newberry Couzens Hall 1925 Neuropsychiatric Samuel and Jean Frankel the family. Foundation supported the Rackham. At the time the endowment was established, it was the largest J. IRA (BBA ’59, LLD Hon ’12) Player in 1934. commitment of $40 million in 2012 1906 (demolished) Residence Hall Institute 1938 Cardiovascular Center 1997 Cheriyan (BSEBE construction of a building gift ever given in support of graduate education in the U.S. AND NICKI HARRIS to the school, adding to support of 1915 10 13 (demolished) in their honor. ’15, Medical School to house the school with a 5 Through the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Class of 2019) and Physical Science East Medical Woodson gave $2 million in 2009 to C.S. $5 million gift. the school’s programs. Natural Science In 1976, a graduate student Foundation they gave a $10 million gift Tani Shtull-Leber In 1917, Regent Levi Lewis Barbour (LLB 1865) Building 1924 (Now Building 1925 (now MAXINE (AB ’66) AND STUART Mott Children’s Hospital toward the new Building 1915 in the School of Music, Most Valuable Player Award (named to U-M for the benefit of the Athletic (BS ’10,ECMO MS survivors. ’16) are gave $100,000 and several parcels of land to be Randall Laboratory) C.C. Little Building) (BBA ’61) FRANKEL building construction and created the Charles Theatre & Dance (SMTD) the Award in 1995) Department. In recognition of their Dr. Robert H. used for a women’s dormitory in memory of his 14 The focal point for the building Woodson Clinical Research Fund. The fund 7 A $10 million gift, in 2004, generosity, the head football coaching SAMUEL (LSA ’30) AND choreographed a thesis is the 1,200–seat lecture hall on Bartlett (MD ’63) François-Xavier Bagnoud mother. The building was completed in General Library Thomas H. Simpson from The Maxine and Stuart position was named the J. Ira and Nicki provides money for research to advance the Memorial Institute 1927 JEAN (AB ’36) FRANKEL presentation that was Professor Emeritus of As students,in the ECMO they workedlab with (BSE Aero ’82) October 1920. Betsy Barbour’s favorite 1920 (Harlan Hatcher Frankel Foundation provided the main floor, influenced by Greek 1986 Harris Family Head Football Coach. treatment of illnesses affecting children. Generous donors to LSA’s Center performed on the terrace Schembechler’s teams Surgery, Medical School. Dr. Bartlett on the next antique rocker was placed in the Graduate Library) support for an addition to the and Art Deco design. The room Completed his bachelor’s of Jewish Studies, which was of the top floor—to the amassed a record of He created Extracorporeal generation of machines To honor his life, his parents— in aerospace engineering in small reception room on the 11 9 U-M Museum of Art. The 53,000 also has one of the earliest uses of lives were saved. accompaniment of the 194–48–5 and won Membrane Oxygenation to save lives, just as theirCountess Albina du Boisrouvray and Tragically, on January 14, first floor. University Hospital 1924 renamed the Jean & Samuel recessed lighting. (AB ’86) only three years and wrote square-foot space was named 1986, at the age of 24, Dr. Ida Kahn (MD 1896) (demolished) 1925 Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Charles Baird Carillon. or shared 13 Big Ten In 2014, he returned to U-M (ECMO) in 1980, a modified Bruno Bagnoud—and close friends “Helicopter Theory for Private The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Bagnoud was killed in a received a Barbour Scholarship in their honor. In 2004, they Conference titles. as the J. Ira and Nicki Harris C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital heart-lung machine that circulates from U-M founded the François- Pilots,” still widely used by pilot and the Frankel Family Wing. helicopter accident in Mali. and graduated from the provided funding to create the Family Head Football Coach. and oxygenates the blood of Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Foundation. trainees in Europe. Medical School with honors. 1936 In 1901, Love Palmer, widow of those nearing death due to The Barbour Scholarships were endowed Angell Hall was named in honor of Frankel Institute for Advanced Coached Harbaugh Dr. Alonzo B. Palmer (LLD 1881)— trauma, burns, infection, at U-M in 1917 by Regent Barbour for the longest serving U-M president, Judaic Studies. The Rackhams 1982–86 professor for 35 years in the medical premature birth, She operated dispensaries and women from the area formerly known as the James Burrill Angell (1871–1909). supported three school—gave $20,000 in 1909 to build François-Xavier Bagnoud consecutive visiting or organ failure. hospitals in China from the late Orient (encompassing the lands extending HELEN ZELL (AB ’64, LHD Hon ’13) Burton Memorial Tower The Harbaughs co-chair the National Campaign a children’s ward. It was U-M’s first gift in 1969 (FXB) Building Fellows in the In 2005, the Mott 19th to the early 20th century. from Turkey in the west to Japan and the In 2013, she gave $50 million to The tower was erected during the 1935–36 Council for C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander support of building a children’s hospital. C.S. Mott The FXB Foundation donated funds Creative Arts, the first Children’s Hospital Foundation provided Kahn was known for developing Philippines in the east) to study modern Some classes of the LSA’s creative writing program. school year. The University of Michigan Club of Women’s Hospital in for Michigan fundraising The 75-bed Palmer Ward opened in 1903 to build a home for the Department of 1999 the first corps of Chinese women of whom was American opened as U-M’s Made possible by a $25 million grant science, medicine, mathematics, and other College of Literature, The program was renamed the Ann Arbor made the tower part of its contribution campaign. As chairs, they contribute philanthropic and was one of the first in the nation first separate Aerospace Engineering, known as the medical professionals. poet Robert Frost. a gift from the C.S. for a new children’s academic disciplines and professions critical Science, and the Arts Helen Zell Writers’ Program in to the Ten-Year Program, while each of the support and serve as ambassadors, generating devoted to treating children. children’s FXB Building, and the adjacent Wave hospital. Mott Foundation. and women’s facility. to the development of their native lands. (LSA) are held here. her honor. Zell’s gift was the classes which had graduated during President awareness of the hospitals’ programs. Field sculpture by artist Maya Lin. PHOTOGRAPHS: SHUTTERSTOCK (2); BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY (14); MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY (4) largest gift ever to LSA. Burton’s tenure raised funds for the carillon. SLUG GOES HERE TEEKAY

MICHIGAN’S MAN OF MYSTERY

THIS IS A LITTLE-KNOWN STORY ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS MICHIGAN MAN WHO, UPON HIS DEATH, LEFT A SURPRISE FOR THE UNIVERSITY.

A reserved, elderly man, dressed in baggy clothes, permanently moved into the Michigan Union to live amid a crowd of students at the University of Michigan. It was 1937, and though guest rooms at the Union were for alumni during short-term stays at the university, this gentleman called it home for 11 years. His name was Crapo (Cray-poe) Cornell Smith (LLB 1865).

Smith, one of U-M’s unique philanthropists, was a native of Detroit. The grandson of Henry Howland Crapo, Michigan’s governor from 1865-68, and cousin of the pioneering automaker William Crapo Durant, Smith carved his own path through life. A Harvard University graduate, Smith entered the U-M Law School in 1895 and graduated the following spring—at the time, it took one year to obtain a law degree.

Though he practiced law in Detroit and Boston, Smith wasn’t one to favor big cities. Upon retirement, Smith found himself heading back to Ann Arbor. Alone at age 68, he sought a home in the Union. University President (PhD ’06) granted him a six-month stay, suggesting that he “give the community a trial by living in the Michigan Union.” Three months later, Smith PHOTO OF CRAPO C. SMITH: FINDAGRAVE.COM

23 22 Leaders & Best :: BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL :: Leaders & Best SUPPORTING STUDENTS “A friend of the students of the University of Michigan”

told the university president that he wanted curiosity of the hundreds of students who And so, the Crapo C. Smith The mystery man in the Union may have Smith was buried in Ann Arbor. to live there permanently. And so special frequented the Union. And it would have Scholarship was created with a appeared reserved and most peculiar The inscription on his tombstone privileges were granted and maintained been hard not to be curious. Smith would $1 million endowment. Having helped to some, but his keen observation of is a testament to his compassion Below: A guest room in the for more than a decade, even during World spend most of his day in a leather chair hundreds of students attend U-M since and empathy for struggling students and dedication to U-M. It reads: Michigan Union War II. He remained the only civilian in in the lobby, buried behind his New York its inception, the scholarship fund now made him one of the university’s most “A friend of the students of the GUEST ROOM: MICHIGAN UNION RECORDS, IVORY PHOTO, BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; MICHIGAN UNION STAIRWAY: UNION MICHIGAN MICHIGAN; OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, HISTORICAL BENTLEY PHOTO, IVORY RECORDS, UNION MICHIGAN ROOM: GUEST the place when the Union’s rooms were Times. If not reading the paper, he’d go totals almost $6.7 million. interesting philanthropists. University of Michigan.” Bottom: A stairwell leads to the commandeered by the U.S. Navy during the for a stroll around campus or walk to the University Club library and lounge war. The Union was now Smith’s home. Michigan League for lunch. The Union had a cafeteria of its own, but he preferred the The Crapo C. Smith Scholarship is one example of the League cafeteria, claiming meals were 10 to 15 cents cheaper. endowed scholarships that are part of the university endowment.

But what was interesting about Smith was WHAT IS AN ENDOWMENT? WHY DO WE HAVE THE ENDOWMENT? his curiosity about the students themselves. Endowments are like savings accounts. A donor provides To ensure continuing support for future generations, the Smith was truly an observer of sorts. He endowment funds and the university invests these funds endowment funds are invested so that part of the annual seldom spoke to anyone but occasionally, for the long term. The earnings from those investments distribution can provide a steady flow of dollars each year. he would get up, shuffle to the registration help support faculty, innovative programs, and student This long-term approach is designed to protect and grow the desk, and ask the name and salary of some scholarships. The university’s endowment is essential to endowment over time. sustaining academic quality. Donors who contribute to student he noticed waiting tables, cleaning the endowment do so because they want to support the Donors generally restrict how endowed funds may be spent by floors, or engaged in some other odd job university and positively affect U-M students and academic designating a specific purpose for those funds. U-M annually around the Union. Then he’d give a curt programs—not just today, but also 25, 50, or 100 years distributes 4.5 percent of the endowment’s average market value, “thank you” and go back about from now. calculated over the previous seven years, for operating purposes. his business.

This strange behavior all made sense CRAPO C. SMITH SCHOLARSHIP (2016) THE U-M ENDOWMENT (2016) one day. And the university was in for a big surprise. $ TOTAL 1M GIFT $ On March 4, 1948, Smith passed away FROM CRAPO C. SMITH IN 1948

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHS VERTICAL FILE, VERTICAL PHOTOGRAPHS MICHIGAN OF UNIVERSITY 9.78B VALUE at the University Hospital. He had made the university the sole beneficiary of his estate—of unknown value at the time. The endowment has grown from At first, while sorting through Smith’s $1M in 1948 to $6.7M in 2016 home in Detroit, university representatives $ MADE UP OF ROUGHLY 9,800 SEPARATE FUNDS, came across 14 bank books and two safe EACH DESIGNATED FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE Smith lived in a guest room in what was deposit boxes containing thousands of Funds reinvested known as the men’s center—in one of the dollars in stocks and bonds. Additional ENDOWMENT in the endowment largest rooms, in fact. The spacious room, securities were discovered in his Boston ensuring its growth THE U-M ENDOWMENT IS THIRD AMONG PUBLIC

however, seemed smaller as it was crammed home. But the biggest shock of all was MICHIGAN OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, HISTORICAL BENTLEY SWAIN, R. GEORGE RANKED THE 10TH-LARGEST AND UNIVERSITIES AFTER TWO full of cardboard boxes, each stuffed to found on campus, in his room in the AMONG ALL U.S. UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS RETURNS ON the brim with papers. And everything was Union. In an almost-forgotten closet INVESTMENTS covered in a thick layer of dust. Except for hidden behind the room’s furniture INVESTMENTS his bed and his chair, not an inch of space were more than $600,000 in stocks was spared. He had wizened with age, and bonds. STUDENT SUPPORT AND THE U-M ENDOWMENT becoming almost skeletal, his attire too 4.5% of the market big for his thinning body. Dressed in black In all, Smith left the university $1 million, CRAPO C. SMITH SCHOLARSHIP value is distributed to Awarded annually since 1948 suits with an old-fashioned, high, stiff white along with very specific instructions. fund the scholarships 2 % collared shirt, he always kept a rolled black He authorized the Board of Regents to 21 umbrella with him, no matter the weather. establish a fund to be used for gifts, loans, 3 scholarships, and merit awards for needy $ 303,000 IN TOTAL OF THE 9,800 FUNDS OF THE $9.78B To learn more about student support, He was a popular man with the students, students, just like those Smith had quietly WAS AWARDED TO 21 STUDENTS IN 2016-2017 ARE DEDICATED FOR STUDENT IS DEDICATED FOR STUDENT visit ldrsnb.st/VFMstudentsupport though that popularity was due to the sheer observed for 11 years. SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

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Paul G. Goebel (BSE ’23) in 1967

An original receipt from the 2 year 1817 for a “subscription” Phoenix Project, Haring wrote. Those hopes raised, at a time when they were not yet (read: contribution) to “the THE MICHIGAN University of Michigania” and ideals led U-M friends to contribute accustomed to making major gifts to MEMORIAL – $8.5 million to the cause, which continues higher education. 1 today in renewed form: the U-M Energy PHOENIX PROJECT Institute, created in 2006 to build on the It was the first modern comprehensive 3 1946–53 legacy of the Phoenix Project. campaign of such grand scope by a public RAISED: $8.5 MILLION university and the first organized effort In Pursuit of A perhaps unforeseen result was the to raise funds for university projects not A two-part yet singular focus fueled the realization of how much U-M community supported by the state. Over time, as it Michigan Memorial – Phoenix Project members could accomplish by banding became apparent that the state could EXCELLENCE of the 1940s and ’50s, one of the most together in the pursuit of shared ideals— support only the most basic educational TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE ambitious comprehensive fundraising a finding that would prove true in future programs and facilities at U-M, this kind COMPREHENSIVE FUNDRAISING campaigns at a public university at the campaigns, as well. This campaign of comprehensive fundraising campaign CAMPAIGN AT MICHIGAN time. At its core was the desire to pay also appealed to corporations, which would become increasingly important. tribute to those from the U-M community contributed more than half of the money With this project, a template was set. Former U.S. President Gerald Philanthropy at U-M is a longstanding tradition dating who gave their lives during World War II. R. Ford (AB ’35, LLD Hon ’74), back to the university’s earliest days, when enthusiastic Paired with that was the widely felt need, honorary chair of the Campaign Detroit citizens provided support in the form of as part of the war’s aftermath, for the for Michigan in the 1980s “subscriptions” 2 , as contributions were called at the ongoing study of the peaceful potential A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, campaign 8 time. The tradition of pooling funds to create something uses of atomic energy. In a 2001 letter 6 to THE $55 MILLION volunteer Cooper had served as senior together continued through the years with a number of U-M, Jacqueline Kolle Haring (AB ’37), a PROGRAM TO manager for the Michigan football team individual, short-term projects in support of specific goals, professional archivist, shared her memories in 1949 under Athletic Director Herbert such as the construction of the Michigan League and of the university’s first comprehensive ENSURE THE O. (“Fritz”) Crisler and Head Football Burton Tower. Comprehensive fundraising campaigns in An early campaign logo design Coach (AB ’28). When stands as a record and symbol of fundraising campaign. VITAL MARGIN pursuit of university-wide priorities, though, only began the hopes and ideals leading to Cooper returned to Ann Arbor in 1965 to emerging at the university less than three quarters of the Phoenix Project. After World War II, Haring was 1961–67 open a car dealership, a good friend and fraternity brother, a century ago, driven by the idealism that administrative assistant to Erich A. GOAL: $55 MILLION Harry Hallock (AB immediately followed World War II. ’40), recruited Cooper to make calls for the 4 Walter 5 ,who was dean of student affairs RAISED: $72 MILLION campaign. Cooper has been active in every at the time. “One day,” Haring wrote, “a U-M campaign since. Select vignettes, shared here by a few of U-M’s many Alumnus Howard Cooper (BBA ’50) Michigan student came into the office to of Ann Arbor recalls the ambitious $55 dedicated alumni and friends, bring to light the passion offer his idea for a suitable memorial of the Million Program, with its stated purpose “to The campaign’s remarkable results proved and commitment to ideals that have fueled the success war: a project which would foster scientific guarantee Michigan’s freedom to explore, the potency of a strong leader supported of U-M fundraising campaigns throughout history. The work for man’s good, rather than his capability to achieve, and courage to lead,” by volunteers like Cooper. A final report stories also point to the lasting impact of each campaign Campaign materials for destruction…in a word, a phoenix rising according to the writing of national chair by an independent agency attributed volunteer fundraisers for the as U-M developed its signature combination of rigorous from the ashes of the atom bomb.” Paul G. Goebel (BSE ’23). 1 the campaign’s success largely to “the $55 Million Program academics with competitive athletics, groundbreaking dedication and leadership” of Goebel—“the research, compassionate care, and an ethos of The idea held broad appeal, and the The campaign literature of the day outlines chief organizer, a prominent and effective service to the world. spokesperson, and the driving force behind 7 Phoenix Project was formed, bringing the program’s priorities—and the competitive the entire volunteer organization.” donors together to pool their funds in spirit that informed them. “The University of Michigan hopes in the immediate future pursuit of atomic energy’s peaceful uses. to establish at least 12 new endowed Himself a former Michigan football player The life-affirming efforts of the Phoenix professorships in key areas,” wrote Allan F. (1920–22) and proud U.S. Navy veteran of Project were intended to serve as a Smith, then vice president for academic affairs. World War II, Goebel in the 1950s was thrice Janet G. (BSN ’58) and John D. (BBA ’56, JD ’59) “living memorial” elected mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Boyles—pictured here in 1992, during the Billion-Dollar “The university has eight such posts now, Campaign for Michigan, where Janet served on the to the 579 U-M as compared with Harvard with more than He served as U-M Regent (1962–70) and steering committee—have participated in nearly every community 200 endowed faculty chairs. Such endowed officiated for years at Big Ten football games. comprehensive U-M fundraising campaign. members who professorships add greatly to the university’s died in the war. ability to attract and hold distinguished As part of its legacy for future campaigns, teachers and leaders in research.” the $55 Million Program gave shape to a formal organizational structure for An early draft of 5 “Endowed chairs are needed in every campaign volunteers 7 , also setting an a campaign logo department of instruction and at every level,” ambitious example for subsequent U-M design 3 stands as a 6 Smith added, including “undergraduate, efforts to follow. A 2001 letter Erich A. Walter, U-M “record and symbol graduate, and graduate-professional.” about the Michigan dean of student of the hopes and Memorial – affairs in the 1940s ideals” leading to the Phoenix Project

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Susan and Rich Rogel in 2008

10 others—created a lasting legacy. The THE MICHIGAN THE CAMPAIGN couple established endowed funds in Victors for Michigan campaign kickoff FOR MICHIGAN the mid-1980s that continue providing DIFFERENCE 11 support to this day for research at the 2000–08 1981–87 School of Nursing and scholarships for Law School students. GOAL: $2.5 BILLION GOAL: $160 MILLION RAISED: $3.2 BILLION RAISED: $178 MILLION 12 “In every campaign, Janet and I continue At the campaign finale 12 for U-M’s first Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford to make gifts to our established funds,” multibillion-dollar campaign, Campaign A high-level (AB ’35, LLD Hon ’74) 8 served as John said. Chair Rich Rogel (BBA ’70, LLD view of an event honorary chair of this, the first U-M campaign celebrating the Hon ’09) 9 of Avon, Colorado, thanked with a goal beyond $100 million. Roger B. “It is fabulous to see,” Janet said, “with the conclusion of Smith (BBA ’48, MBA ’53, LLD Hon astute investments that go on [at U-M]— donors for investing in “the future of the Michigan ’90)—then CEO of Corp.— and with the large amounts that they get to the university, the future of the state of Difference Michigan, and the future of our nation campaign in was honorary co-chair. invest from everybody at the university— 2008 and world,” a November 18, 2008, U-M Regent Ron (BBA ’66) and how these funds have increased.” Eileen (MMus ’75) Weiser in 2008 Campaign priorities included enlarging the University Record article reported. endowment and funding the construction Watching their endowed funds grow—and and renovation of facilities for teaching, seeing the impact that has had on the lives Former First Lady of the United States VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN research, and clinical work. Endowment of students who would otherwise be unable 13 Elizabeth B. (“Betty”) Ford (LLD support from the likes of alumni John D. to attend U-M—has brought John and Janet 2011–PRESENT 14 Hon ’76) was honorary chair; campaign (BBA ’56, JD ’59) and Janet G. Boyles great satisfaction, they said. “These GOAL: $4 BILLION co-chairs were (BSN ’58) Boyles 4 of Grand Rapids, are very bright, ambitious young people Maxine Frankel (AB ’66), Mike J. Jandernoa (BBA ’72), Stephen M. Ross as Victors for Michigan, reflected those priorities and— who have great goals as to how they’re “This is a remarkable moment in the history of the Michigan campaign kickoff emcee together with campaign gifts from many going to improve the world,” John said. William F. Pickard (MSW ’65), University of Michigan,” said then-President Mary Sue Sanford R. Robertson (BBA ’53, Coleman at a September 5, 2013, press conference two MBA ’54, LLD Hon ’15), Stephen months before the public launch 10 of the Victors for CBS News correspondent Mike M. Ross (BBA ’62, LLD Hon ’11), Glenn E. (“Bo”) Schembechler (LLD Michigan campaign. “Stephen Ross 13 , a Michigan Wallace (AB ’39, LLD Hon ’87), and Penny W. Stamps (BSDes co-chair of the Billion-Dollar THE BILLION- Hon ’05) graduate known nationally for his business acumen and . The campaign’s public launch in ’66, TeachCert ’66). Campaign for Michigan DOLLAR CAMPAIGN 1992 coincided with the 175th anniversary his philanthropy, is providing his alma mater with a gift of U-M’s founding and sought “a level of of $200 million.” FOR MICHIGAN private support unequalled in the past,” Donors helped create 185 new professorships and 22 new campus 1991–97 they wrote, “one that will allow us to Ross’s historic gift, the largest in U-M history, was buildings, including the 1-million-square- compete on equal ground with the best made during the campaign’s nucleus phase to be shared GOAL: $1 BILLION foot C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. The THE STORY CONTINUES of our peers.” equally between the and the RAISED: $1.4 BILLION construction of the Maxine and Stuart Frankel and the Frankel Family Wing Athletic Department. Ross cited the dual excellence As the impact of past campaigns suggests, the activities “We’re not going to do millions in this As a result of the campaign, the university’s more than doubled the size of the U-M of U-M’s academic and athletic programs as the of the present moment will have a profound influence campaign; we’re going to do one billion,” permanent endowment crossed the Museum of Art. And a gift of $100 million inspiration for his gift. on the university’s future. Since taking the helm of the a campaign steering committee member $1 billion mark for the first time in U-M from Stephen M. Ross (BBA ’62, university and the Victors for Michigan campaign in is said to have announced at a meeting to history. Fully endowed professorships LLD Hon ’11)—the largest gift in U-M Ross serves as the Victors for Michigan campaign chair, 2013, U-M President Mark S. Schlissel 15 has been discuss the campaign goal. “Billion with increased from 125 to 226, including 20 history at the time—would fund a major with four campaign vice chairs: Rich Rogel; A. Alfred working to position U-M “for perpetual excellence and public impact in research, creative work, performance, a ‘B.’” Some say it was Mike Wallace in what would later be called the Stephen building initiative at the Stephen M. Ross Taubman, in memoriam (Taubman College ’48, LLD patient care, and education,” he has said. Today’s (AB ’39, LLD Hon ’87) of CBS News’s 60 M. Ross School of Business. With their School of Business, while a gift from Hon ’91); Regent Ron and Eileen Weiser; and Helen donors empower these efforts by providing support 14 J. Ira generosity, donors likewise catapulted Zell (AB ’64). Rogel also chairs campaign fundraising Minutes fame ; others swear it was Regent Ron (BBA ’66) and Eileen for the ongoing campaign. 15 Harris (BBA ’59, LLD Hon ’12) of Palm other schools and programs to new heights. (MMus ’75) Weiser 11 of Ann Arbor for student support and for Michigan Medicine. The list Beach, Florida. Results ranged from the establishment established the Ronald and Eileen Weiser of campaign leadership board members—64 strong— of the Mike and Mary Wallace House for Center for Europe and Eurasia in the reads like a Who’s Who of longtime loyal donors to Serving under the national campaign chair, U-M’s Knight-Wallace journalism fellows College of Literature, Science, and the the university. To watch videos about the Victors for Michigan campaign, Regent Emeritus Robert E. Nederlander, to the creation of 12 new scholarships in Arts (LSA). “These facilities say to our check out the online story at ldrsnb.st/lb200Campaigns Sr. (AB ’55, JD ’58, LLD Hon ’90), were what is now the A. Alfred Taubman College faculty, staff, and students: You will The campaign’s three key priorities are support for of Architecture and Urban Planning; 104 always have what you need to do your students, engaged learning, and bold ideas. It is the [PAGES 26–27] BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY PHOTOS—GOEBEL, WALTER: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICES PHOTOGRAPHS, five campaign co-chairs: Wallace, Harris, 1946–2006. FORD: VICE-PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN RECORDS 1948-ONGOING; BLANCHARD, JAMES, CAMPAIGN FOR Allan D. Gilmour (MBS ’59), Margaret new scholarships in the School of Music, work,” the Record quoted then-President most ambitious campaign in university history, and its MICHIGAN NEGATIVES, OCTOBER 1983. CAMPAIGN MATERIALS: VICE-PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN RECORDS 1948-ONGOING as saying. (MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, AUSTIN THOMASON). LOGO: MICHIGAN MEMORIAL PHOENIX PROJECT RECORDS (MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, AUSTIN Ann (“Ranny”) Riecker (LLD Hon ’05), Theatre and Dance; and 15 new faculty success to date reflects the increasing generosity of U-M THOMASON). BOYLES PHOTO (BY GREGORY FOX)—MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, AUSTIN THOMASON. [PAGES 28–29] ROGEL, FINALE, KICKOFF: MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, SCOTT C. SODERBERG; ROSS, PRINTED PROGRAM: MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, AUSTIN THOMASON; WALLACE: FILE PHOTO, OFFICE OF and former Michigan Football Coach awards in LSA. donors over time. UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

29 28 Leaders & Best :: BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL :: Leaders & Best The Lasting The origins of U-M’s oldest endowed professorship of have always been somewhat of a mystery. Following her death in 1898, Dr. Elizabeth H. Bates bequeathed $100,000 to the U-M Medical School, at a time when tuition there cost $12.50 a semester. In today’s dollars, her gift would have amounted to LEGACY more than $2 million. Remarkably, history shows us that Bates never worked, taught, or studied at the university. In fact, as far as anyone can tell, Elizabeth U-M’s First Bates never so much as set foot in Ann Arbor. Since 1899, the Bates Professorship of the Diseases of Women and Children has supported the work of Endowed seven professors at the U-M Medical School. It is one of the most prestigious chairs not only at U-M, but for obstetricians and gynecologists across the country. PROFESSORSHIP This is the story of how—or why—it came to be.

A Force of Character“no halfway work” AND THE Elizabeth H. Bates was born April 1, 1832, in Charlemont, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was described as a very delicate child due to an injury suffered early in life; she spent much of her early childhood indoors with her mother, whom records describe as Extraordinary “an invalid.” Her father, Dr. William K. Bates, was renowned as a physician of exceptional ability: “clear and precise in expression, acutely observant, and of a medical judgment almost unerring in serious cases.” Elizabeth spent much of her later childhood traveling at his side, accompanying him on trips into the country districts to treat his patients.

She began her education in Charlemont, before her WOMAN father’s practice expanded and relocated the family to Morris, New York. She completed her education at Mrs. Willard’s Seminary at Troy, New York, and Who Started returned to her parents in 1852. By then, Elizabeth Dr. Elizabeth H. Bates, was ready to confess to her father that she wanted no benefactor, the Bates Professorship of the part of a domesticated life. The girl from Charlemont Diseases of Women longed for those afternoons spent traveling the and Children countryside and working alongside her father. She IT ALL felt lost without regular work and confided that she 33

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:: BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL ldrsnb.st/lb200Bates care and in U-M at communities across the globe; they describe a him as a mentor, and a lifesaver, a good friend.teacher, hisRecently, peers came together raise to funds create to the Timothy R.B.Johnson, ProfessorshipM.D., in Global Women’s Health, ensure to exceptional care and justice around women the for globe.Their goal: and celebrate a beloved “to honor caregiver, and change leader, teacher, represents who theagent best the of maize and and blue the best mankind.” of Johnson is the third Bates have to professor a professorship created in his honor. The Departmentof Obstetrics and Gynecology Michigan at Medicine is also the to Miller home Norman F. Professorship Gynecology of and the J. Robert Willson Professorship Obstetrics. of Johnson The Professorship will“ be awarded an to individual shares who his commitment being to women for a voice peers throughout Johnson’s the world,” will inspirewrote. “[It] future generations and be a lasting Johnson’s tribute Dr. to impact us on and in the world.” hundredOne nineteen years afterits gift Bates’s to receipt, Dr. the university has theprovided for betterment women’s of healthand children’s in Ann Arbor and around Johnson the and Dr. his world. predecessors carried have legacy her on beenin to have able ways not may she imagine.professorships The created in their honor—an indirect gift result Bates’s of in 1898—illustrate the tremendous, long- lasting change that can be about brought through philanthropic giving.us shows It that generosity bears and that generosity, generosity can change our world. Give now the to Timothy R.B. Johnson, M.D., Professorship in Global Health. Women’s Your continues care women’s that ensure will contribution improveto at U-M, across the nation, and around the world. . Johnson is chair FACULTY SUPPORT FACULTY of theof Department Obstetrics of and Gynecology, an Arthur Thurnau F. Professor, a professor studies, of women’s and a research in professor the Center Humanfor Growth and Development. His international teaching and training in Ghana earned have him an honorary Africanfellowship the at West College Surgeons,of an honorary fellowship of the Ghana College Physicians of and Surgeons, and a fellowship ad eundem at the Royal College Obstetricians of and Gynaecologists, peers London. Johnson’s credit him with transforming women’s a lasting legacy a lasting would be hardIt imagine to that Bates could predictedhave the extraordinary impact that gift her would U-M to ultimately have. the Bates professorshipSince has 1899, supported the seven of at professors work the Medical U-M School. Their combined haswork imparted change untold our on campus and our world. years 100 Today—almost afterits establishment—the Bates chair is by held Timothy R.B. Johnson, M.D. ’70, (AB AM ’71, MedRes ’79) The only The stipulationgiftmay of Bates’s confirmedhave Angell’s inference. She instructed that continue “receive to U-M female studentsin the medical department, pursueto their studies, and receive to the same advantages as male students.” The university—having already educated its at medicalwomen close school to for two decades—accepted terms. her the At meetingRegents’ James September of 1899, MartinN. was appointed the (MD 1883) first Bates of Professor the Diseasesof and Children.Women

Timothy R.B. Johnson, M.D., the current Bates professor, has held the chair since 1993. He is the Leadership Ansbacher Rudi the of recipient recent Award for Support of Women in Healthcare at the Women. for Summit Leadership Medicine Michigan

reach of her legacyreach her of was only beginning to become apparent. Soon afterher death, officials atUniversitythe of Michigan were stunned a of receive to word bequest the to Medical School a by physician from upstate York. New the at one universityNo had ever heard anof Elizabeth Bates, had she left but almost entire her fortune—more than U-M. $100,000—to doesappear not “It that our benefactor ever visited James President the B. university,” Angell reflected in announcing the gift. far as can we learn,“As was she to moved usremember in this manner generous by the fact that this university was the of one first offer to medicalwomen.” education to

GRADUATION 1912: ALUMNAE COUNCIL (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) RECORDS, LYNDON PHOTO (ANN ARBOR), BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; JOHNSON: COURTESY OF MICHIGAN MEDICINE

one of those of one self-reliant, competent, and thatcapable women are only in found free America,” recalled. it funeralHer services drew Port of much The Chester. minister’s eulogyher lauded accomplishments in life and in medicine— celebrating Bates in special consideration time her of and place in the had She world. flourished“when on such achievement the part was women far of less frequent than at the time present and encountered when it he far and prejudice of opposition,” more said. many years “For was she to left fight the battle life of singlehanded, managing businessher affairs augmenting and her material fortune in the face the of world’s masculine strength and shrewdness.” this“All required and of developed a force character, which resulted ina remarkable accentuation willpower of and personal authority…. experience Her as was a whole remarkableone the for dominance mind of will.” and ElizabethDr. Bates was buried next her to father the But in wide Morris, York. New TIMOTHY R.B. JOHNSON, R.B. JOHNSON, TIMOTHY M.D. 1964-78 M.D. WILLSON, ROBERT J. 1979-84 ALAN M.D. BEER, 1985-91 M.D. DILTS, V. PRESTON 1993-present bates professors professors bates since 1899 1899–1901 M.D. N. MARTIN, JAMES 1901–30 M.D. PETERSON, REUBEN 1931-63 M.D. MILLER, F. NORMAN Many at U-M and beyond called the co- education ofmen and women a “dangerous like women pioneering Early experiment.” Bates knew that women could compete.

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announced passing her April on 7, The people of Portof The Chesterher people held in high esteem tremendous her medical for acumen and shrewdness her as a businesswoman. livedShe and practiced than there more for years15 until death her in was 1898—she 66 years old. An article inPort The Chester Journal “She was a very1898. remarkable woman, Dr. Bates practicedDr. medicine alongside her they where father in Owego, York, New two decadesenjoyed success. of Then, in Elizabeth’s1872, motherdied suddenly. Tragically, father her soon after. followed Although their it loss deeply, her shook characterwas in not Bates’s be to deterred. in York, New relocatedShe Port to Chester, there became she 1882; positive for a force change and the member of a beloved budding community. “dominance of mind of “dominance will” and They studiedtogether in yearsecret a for Elizabethbefore enrolled the at Female Medical College Pennsylvania, of one first theof medical world’s schoolsfor graduated she where women, in Her 1854. 30-page handwritten thesis, “Best Means Preservingof Health,” is still file on in the archives,college’s maintained the by Drexel University College Medicine. of Her father, forever pragmatic, forever father, Her answered: desperately. must it do you do, “Ifyou I want halfway no the At time, work.” inwomen medicine rare—the were first woman receive medical to her degree in the hadU.S. graduated from medical school onlyyears five earlier.William it knew would require an abnormal amount of commitment, exceptional skill, and an endurance in character and spirit. “Thinkit two for weeks,over speak not do but me to until it of instructed. he then,” Elizabeth— perhaps predictably—answered that she was ready begin to immediately. did.” Studyingdid.” medicine had been her ambition since girlhood, and aimed she pursueto now. it “did want not nothing do to as other girls Leaders & Best 32 TAKE JFK laid the foundation A TOUR for the 1 2 Peace Corps on these WITH steps MY FAVORITE SEVEN U-M ICONS INFLUENCED ME BY PHILANTHROPY TheMichigan Union stands strong as a symbol of connection, collaboration, and activism. Did you David Schafer (LSA Class of 2017) know that the building was hails from East Brunswick, New conceptualized by students Jersey. This second-generation who sought a central, inclusive In 1921, the University Wolverine is a student in the College hub on campus that would Alumnae Council led a of Literature, Science, and the Arts, help them stay connected? When it was first built, the Union was far from perfect; campaign to raise the pursuing a self-designed major in it was strictly a space for men. Women were forced to find Or that its initial construction outside avenues to build community. money to build a center Peace, Conflict, and Human Rights was made possible not by one for women on campus. Studies, with a specific focus on ethnic large gift, but rather by yearly Eight years and more and religious conflict and post-conflict gifts of $2.50 by members of the than $1 million later, the reconstruction. Schafer proudly Michigan Union club? Michigan League opened. serves as the 2016-17 Central Student Government Student Body President. SCHAFER WALKING: PHOTO BY SALMIYEH PHOTOS KARAMALI; OF SCHAFER AROUND CAMPUS: MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, AUSTIN THOMASON

It’s nearly impossible to walk around campus and not be struck by the impact of giving. So much of our university’s growth was made possible through philanthropy and transformational giving,

which is something I learned while working as a philanthropic tour guide for the Office of University Development. The selflessness of others has allowed many thousands of students to attend college; work with some of the best, most advanced technologies; study around the world; and build the foundation on which their future rests.

I came to embrace the importance of philanthropy and admire the positive change it brings. I believe 3 My favorite monument on campus is a steel and granite structure, tucked away on North that donations don’t lose their significance once a building is constructed or a scholarship is funded. Campus, called Köszönöm (“Thank You”). The sculpture honors the life and legacy of one of U-M’s most esteemed alumni, Raoul Wallenberg (BSArch ’35), who is credited If anything, they only grow in importance over time and signify the evolution of our campus. While with saving the lives of more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II. As much of U-M has been touched by the work, time, and giving of others, for me, certain buildings the great-grandson of Jewish immigrants who lost family during the Holocaust, I feel this monument is particularly important to me. Sol King (BSArch ’34), who was and monuments deserve special recognition as hallmarks of Michigan’s highest ideals. Wallenberg’s college classmate and close friend, provided the funds to make Köszönöm’s construction possible.

35 34 Leaders & Best :: BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL SPECIAL :: Leaders & Best BERNARD J. LEADERS & BEST ROSENTHAL A publication by the University of Michigan for (AB ’36), valued members of the Michigan community 4 VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT also known as Jerry May When you think about a landmark on Tony Rosenthal, is the ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, campus, what are some of the first ones this massive structure has greeted many sculptor who created MARKETING & ANNUAL GIVING that come to mind? For me, it’s the Cube. over the last half-century. But most don’t The Cube “Endover” AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Tom Szczepanski Stationed prominently in Regents’ Plaza know that the Cube was a gift from the in the Regents and surrounded by the Fleming Building, Class of 1965 and Bernard Rosenthal, Plaza. WRITING, DESIGN, AND PRODUCTION the Michigan4 Union, and West Quad, the artist. Office of University Development Marketing & Annual Giving Next, the Munger Graduate Residences. That philanthropy was

behind this building’s construction is UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOARD OF REGENTS a well-known fact. What makes this Michael J. Behm, Grand Blanc; Mark J. Bernstein, Ann Arbor; 7 gift so powerful, though, is the vision Shauna Ryder Diggs, Grosse Pointe; Denise Ilitch, Bingham Farms; Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor; Andrew C. that spearheaded the building and Richner, Grosse Pointe Park; Ron Weiser, Ann Arbor; the residences. Charles T. Munger Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor; Mark S. Schlissel, ex officio (LLD Hon ’10) wanted a space that NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY STATEMENT would unite graduate and professional The University of Michigan, as an equal opportunity/ students from different backgrounds affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable and academic disciplines—one that federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University of Michigan is committed would foster personal and professional to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not connections as well as the development discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, of new ideas. In addition to advancing marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or this goal, the building features a veteran status in employment, educational programs and Did you know that Arthur Miller (AB ’38, LHD rooftop track, which provides one activities, and admissions. Inquiries or complaints may be Hon ’56), one of the great playwrights of the 20th of the most wonderful views of addressed to the Senior Director for Institutional Equity, and Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, Office for Institutional century, was a proud Michigan Wolverine? North Ann Arbor! Equity, 2072 Administrative Services Building, Ann Arbor, Campus’s Arthur Miller Theatre honors Miller’s Michigan 48109-1432, 734.763.0235, TTY 734.647.1388, accomplishments and embodies our university’s [email protected]. For other University of Michigan commitment to the arts. The only theater in the information, call 734.764.1817. world to bear Miller’s name, it was made possible by a © 2017 Regents of the University of Michigan generous gift from U-M alumnusCharles Walgreen, Jr. (PhC ’28, MS Hon ’51, LHD Hon ’92). Expressed These seven ostensibly disparate structures, buildings, and monuments are as a translucent glass cube, the strikingly beautiful connected not only by their presence on the U-M campus, but also by the Questions? Comments? building complements the equally elegant theater, You have received this copy of Leaders & Best because you which hosts many musical, artistic, and theatrical ways they represent the very best of philanthropy. Philanthropy is dynamic, are a valued member of the Michigan community. Whether productions throughout the year. you are a volunteer, friend, or donor, your feedback on this publication and ideas for future issues help us effectively visionary, special, and important. It drives discovery, expands opportunities, communicate the impact of philanthropy at Michigan.

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