CRANBROOK DONOR HONOR ROLL 2014-15 2 CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIRMAN On behalf of the Board of Trustees of Cranbrook Educational Community and all of the learners and visitors who enjoy our campus and our programs on it, in our region, and throughout the nation, I want to say thank you to the thousands of individuals and organizations listed in this 2014-2015 Cranbrook Donor Honor Roll and the many more who have volunteered their time, talent, and gifts to support this exceptional institution. Over the summer of 2015, craftsmen constructed two stone walls along Lone Pine Road in the vicinity of the new exit from the Cranbrook House parking lot. These walls join the old ones that frame the newly-restored Yellin Gates which were installed and dedicated in November. Walls are a significant part of the historic hardscape around Cranbrook. Within the campuses of the Schools or the Academy of Art, they offer places to sit in the sunshine, catching up with friends or enjoying a book. Around the perimeter of Cranbrook, walls serve to embrace the space. With every wall, there is a door or a gate or an opening that breaks the barrier and invites those outside in and encourages those in to go out. Inviting others in, and encouraging outward bound service, outreach and learning, are crucial to what we do at Cranbrook. As I wrote in my Honor Roll introduction last year, Cranbrook was founded upon a spirit of giving to others. Mindful of that legacy, we strive to share Cranbrook’s educational and cultural opportunities with many and diverse audiences. Your contributions inspire us and impel us to offer opportunities in education, art, and science on and off our historic 319-acre campus like no other organization in the country. We’re also working hard to develop extraordinary new, imaginative, and far-reaching experiences for learners of all kinds. We need to continue to build new audiences both on our campus and outside it. In doing so, we are sustaining the commitment of our founders, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth, who believed that unselfish service to others not only provides the giver with health and happiness but also makes for happy and healthy communities, states, and nations as well. Thank you for all you do to make this happen. Bruce D. Peterson Chairman Board of Trustees CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 3 4 CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT Dear Friends, To those listed on the following pages, and to the many others unnamed, on behalf of everyone associated with Cranbrook Educational Community, I extend our most profound thanks—for enhancing our capacity to provide opportunities for so many to experience the joys of learning, observing, imagining, creating, discovering, and above all, reaching for excellence. We all are deeply grateful for your continued support, encouragement, and friendship. Cranbrook’s Donor Honor Roll recognizes the individuals and organizations whose gifts to Cranbrook make it possible to share this extraordinary place with others. As you look through this publication, I encourage you to pause on the messages of the leaders in each of our program areas. In their words, you will discover how outreach is integral to what we do, how Cranbrook’s service to others takes many forms, and how each donor to Cranbrook, through their gifts, has leveraged our capacity to serve others and thus enrich ourselves. I’ve had several moments over the last month that caused me to think about Cranbrook’s history and our collective service to others, both now and in the past. George Gough Booth, Cranbrook’s founder along with his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, was many things. He was a metalsmith by trade, a newspaperman by profession, a collector by interest, an architect and landscape designer by hobby, and a philosopher by inclination. Cranbrook’s Archives are filled with his writings, which are full of quotations that challenge and inspire the reader even today. I would argue, however, that in spite of all of the Booths’ extraordinary accomplishments, serving others was a trait they held in the highest esteem. I enjoy reading the historic literature related to Cranbrook and recently came across this quote from George Booth: “If you would serve self best, then serve others.” As I read this passage, it struck me again that the Booths certainly lived up to that conviction in their own lives, and today’s Cranbrook remains the living proof of that commitment. I am delighted to tell you that each program area of Cranbrook is making an ongoing, meaningful difference in the lives of those around us. From the Horizons-Upward Bound Program at Cranbrook Schools to the Institute’s statewide educational outreach to the Art Museum’s focus on art and urban learners, all areas of Cranbrook serve others as a priority. Mindful of the Booths’ service legacy, we share our educational experiences, programs and facilities with diverse audiences and work to create life-long relationships with all of our constituents. Thank you, again, for your support and for helping Cranbrook serve those who need it most. Dominic A. DiMarco President CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 5 FOUNDER’S SOCIETY CRANBROOK CUMULATIVE GIVING SOCIETIES Cranbrook’s Cumulative Giving Societies, including the Founder’s Society which recognizes cumulative giving of more than $1 million, honors Cranbrook’s founding families and the donors who are following in their footsteps with their generous support of this Community. The following pages provide insight and background into each giving level and also list those individuals who make up the 2014-15 class of the Founder’s Society as well as the dozens of other supporters who have given to Cranbrook over the years. SAARINEN • $5,000,000 SCRIPPS • $7,500,000 Susan Flint Cooper K’58 Ellen Booth’s family, the Scrippses, were leaders in the BOOTH • $10,000,000 newspaper publishing industry at the turn of the 20th George Gough and Ellen Scripps Booth century. The Scripps family was the foundation upon which Maxine and Stuart Frankel many of Cranbrook’s early successes were built. George and Ellen Booth founded Cranbrook in 1904 and guided its growth into one of the world’s leading centers for education, science and art. The idea for Cranbrook arose, in part, of their belief that beauty was essential to life and could inspire great thinking and creativity. That belief still inspires the Cranbrook vision today. 6 CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE MILLES • $1,000,000 Margaret and Robert Allesee Anonymous Pamela Applebaum K’83 Robert L. Currie C’40 Albert and Peggy deSalle Douglas and Linda Ebert W. Hawkins Ferry C’33 Donald I. Fine C’40 VETTRAINO • $2,500,000 Ralph and Jeanne Hargreaves Graham K’57 Michael and Adele Acheson C’80 Edward and Sylvia Hagenlocker James and Florence Booth Beresford Morton and Brigitte Harris SAARINEN • $5,000,000 Margo Cohen Feinberg Richard and Leslie Helppie John and Christine Giampetroni C’84 Barbara Henderson K’37 Henry Scripps and Carolyn Booth Jeffrey and Jamie Harris C’73 James Lee Kirk C’44 Peter and Julie Fisher Cummings K’73 Jan and Patricia Chase Hartmann K’48 Robert and Wallis Klein C’58 Frederick and Barbara Erb C’41 Robert and Bonnie Larson Phoebe Otter Matthews K’42 James and Virginia Beresford Fox Wayne Lyon C’50 Lucius and Terrie Snyder McKelvey C’63 Rose M. Shuey Ralph and Winifred Polk Eugene and Lois Miller Stephen and Bobbi Polk Lisa Payne Renowned Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen joined the Booths Joseph and Ellen Flint Price K’55 Donald and JoAnne Petersen in the mid-1920s to help bring their dream of Cranbrook to Leslie Rose Lyle and Joyce Shuert fruition. With sweeping vision and an unparalleled eye for Shirley Wallace Sarver K’42 detail, Saarinen’s design for Cranbrook and its buildings made Alfred and Judith Taubman it one of the world’s most admired campuses. Robert and Nancy Vlasic Robert and Julia Reyes Taubman C’72 R. Jamison and Betty Joy Williams James and Shari-Ann Vlasic Gary Wasserman CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 7 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE CHAIRMAN’S $500,000 William and Alice Shaw Aikens K’51 John Bloom James S. and Ellen N. Booth Warren S. and Alice Booth W. Richard and Katherine Flannery Robert and Mary Flint David and Jennifer Forbes Sidney and Maddie Forbes Erica Ward and Ralph Gerson C’67 Merle and Shirley Harris Jonathan Holtzman Ruth C. Hurwitz Arnold and Linda Jacob Ira and Brenda Jaffe G.C.R. and Elizabeth Kuiper Edward Levy and Linda Dresner Richard and Jane Manoogian John and Elizabeth Wallace McLean K’34 Rip and Gail Rapson Lloyd and Maurcine Reuss Gilbert and Lila Silverman Donald and Edith Slotkin C’54 Michael and Helen Vlasic C’78 Paul and Adriana Vlasic C’89 Grace Booth Wallace Richard and Sara Warren Rick and Karen Williams C’59 Charles and Diane Wenger Wilson K’42 8 CRANBROOK HONOR ROLL • 2014-15 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE PRESIDENT’S $250,000 William Ackman Richard and Mary Lou Janes Anonymous Mark and Elizabeth Kogan C’75 Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Richard and Johanna McClear Joseph and Linda Wasserman Aviv K’73 Sarah and Charles McClure Gunther and Susan Balz C’49 Gerald McNeely John Booth Beresford C’48 Jeffrey and Marsha Miro Maurice, Lois and Lauren Beznos Melanie Muir Mitchell and Michele Bleznak James and Bernadette Nealis Thomas and Dale Bray C’59 Martha Nowels K’43 Edith Schlafer Briskin K’63 William and Susan O’Brien Mary Elizabeth Brown Harry & Virginia Ormston Ronald and Lynda Charfoos Bruce and Kimberly Peterson Charles and Muriel Chidsey C’46 Ralph and Nancy Knorr Polk C’58, K’60 Paul