WISCONSIN CAMPAIGN A REPORT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION SUMMER 2004 insights MBA program plans new home Grainger Foundation gift jump-starts construction All the world is a stage Lorraine Hansberry Visiting Professor Tim Bond scores a hit The Andrew Mellon Foundation and DARE A relationship based on the love of words Class of ‘52: How your garden does grow Botany Garden nears completion thanks to class gift Overview Message from the president Sandy Wilcox We have a number of University of Wisconsin- tion staff. I believe they understand that from Madison students who work in our UW Founda- those to whom much has been given, much tion office. They do a variety of clerical jobs, is expected. And, as our work on Create the work in the Information Technology area and Future: The Wisconsin Campaign continues, staff the Telefund department. We consider them they see themselves as both beneficiaries and members of our Foundation family and many participants. I like to think their jobs at the stay with us for the duration of their college Foundation give them unique insight into careers. Recently, I invited some of these students the importance of private support that other to join me for lunch and conversation. I won’t students don’t get. speculate as to what they gained from the experi- They will be the next generation of capital ence, but for me it was time well spent. campaign leaders, donors of financial aid and We call the UW-Madison a “transforming” program gifts, successful and generous alumni place. Young people come here full of talent and whose names appear on rooms and buildings. enthusiasm but lacking real-world experience This spring at the Kohl Center we again recog- and intellectual discipline. The job of the UW is nized another class of students—undergraduates to educate them, not just with book learning, but along with master’s, doctoral and professional with life learning, and to push them to take that school graduates—who have been transformed huge leap from what they are to what they can by their time here. Several of our Foundation be. The results are astonishing. students also received their degrees. We I’ve watched our small group of Foundation can’t help but feel proud of their accomplish- students blossom into thoughtful, articulate ments and a bit sad at losing them. adults serious not only about their careers, but All of us at the UW Foundation are fortunate also about how the work they do will be mean- to spend our days in the company of UW stu- ingful. They have had the opportunity to experi- dents, faculty and staff and UW supporters ence firsthand the power of philanthropy. They across the country. They remind us why we are recognize the commitment of our UW Founda- here today and what is possible tomorrow. 2 University of Wisconsin Foundation BOB RASHID Telefund students take a break from calling to invite alumni and parents to make gifts to the UW-Madison. The UW Foundation employs about 120 students each semester to work in the Telefund office. In 2003, student callers raised $3.9 million. From left, Robyn Kolosovsky, Sarah King, Emily Fisher and Brad Green gather around one of the 13 “Terrace Chairs on the Town,” created by Madison area artists as part of the Memorial Union’s 75th anniversary. This sculpture, by Kevin Hayes, titled “Ars Gratia Artis,” along with the other works, will be sold in an online auction through July 11. Visit www.union.wisc.edu/75 or call 608-262-2687 for details. W ISCONSIN C AMPAIGN insights 3 Contents/Summer 2004 Contents Volume 2, Number 1 Overview 2 Message from the president Campaign Update 5 Message from the campaign co-chairs 6 12 24 26 Campaign Gifts 6 $20 million gift serves as catalyst for new School of Business addition 9 Two PhD candidates win Women’s Philanthropy Council fellowships 10 Supporting Earth Focus Day Camp is only natural 12 Hansberry residency, production brings wider world to campus 14 Catching kidnappers and helping doctors: DARE more than books W ISCONSIN C AMPAIGN 16 Gift helps students study the world insights 17 Yesterday’s graduate helps today’s students Editorial Director 18 UW–Madison College of Engineering Lynne Johnson encourages young scientists Contributing Writers Merry Anderson 20 Renewed garden really grows, thanks to Chris DuPré the Class of 1952 Tracey Rockhill Sue Zyhowski 22 Marshall Field’s/Target pledges to the Publication Coordinator School of Human Ecology Laura Van Toll Design and layout 24 Kids With Courage: Touched by cancer, Paul Fuchs Design blessed with life insights is published three 26 Out-of-this-world experience times a year by the University of Wisconsin Foundation for donors and friends of the University 28 Variety is the spice of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 29 To be part of Camp Randall...that’s the ticket Address comments or questions to: In Closing Communications Department UW Foundation 30 Faculty excellence on the road 1848 University Avenue P.O. Box 8860 Madison, WI 53708-8860 Front Cover Phone: 608-263-4545 This photo shows the corner of University Avenue and Park Street, where construction of a new E-mail: [email protected] addition to the east side of Grainger Hall is set to begin. The new building is expected to open its Web: www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu doors to UW-Madison School of Business MBA program students in the fall of 2007. See story on page 6. 4 University of Wisconsin Foundation Campaign Update Message from the campaign co-chairs Spring on the University of Nobel and Pulitzer prize Wisconsin-Madison campus is ceremonies, in top government unforgettable. Frisbees float on offices and in humble Peace Corps warm, fresh breezes. The chairs villages, in the footlights and on on the Memorial Union best-seller lists, in operating rooms Terrace offer a welcome burst of and in military combat. color from the gray days of The Wisconsin spirit is winter. Several thousand stu- generous. Fond memories of the dents order their graduation University and gratitude for the caps and gowns and suddenly education and the experiences that SUTTER PHOTOGRAPHERS realize they made it. For gradu- Paul Collins and Wade Fetzer helped to shape their lives inspire ating students at all levels and across all disci- many alumni to give back. From its founding in plines, their relationship with the UW will 1945 to the present, the University of Wisconsin change. They will become alumni. They will Foundation has received more than $1.5 billion join so many of us who also made it. They will in gifts from alumni and friends committed to become part of the UW’s history. Like us, they ensuring that the Wisconsin tradition of excellence also will participate in creating its future. will endure. From those of us whose lives were trans- The Wisconsin spirit cherishes the past and formed by our years at the UW, we bid a warm looks to the future. With all its strengths, and all welcome to these new alumni. As they set off its potential, the UW is positioned to be one of a on their life adventures, they carry with them handful of truly extraordinary universities. Create the Wisconsin spirit. the Future: The Wisconsin Campaign is much more The Wisconsin spirit is a bond that unites than a capital campaign to raise $1.5 billion for the more than 300,000 alumni around the world. University. It offers alumni and friends of the UW There is a sense of pride in wearing the Badger the opportunity to participate in determining the red and white that gives the Wisconsin spirit University’s destiny. With the help of private sup- its energy, its intensity, its can-do attitude. port, the UW-Madison can make big plans to create The Wisconsin spirit is ubiquitous. UW the future—and donors can create a powerful alumni show up in an amazing variety of legacy that will benefit society for generations places—in Fortune 500 boardrooms and at to come. Together, we can create the future. W ISCONSIN C AMPAIGN insights 5 Campaign Gifts $20 million gift serves as catalyst for new School of Business addition A $20 million gift from one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s most generous benefactors has helped jump-start construction of a new home for the School of Business’ MBA program. This gift comes from The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois. It will help pay for the construction of an addition on the east side of Grainger Hall, home to the existing business school. Another Grainger gift of $10 million in 1990 helped fund the original School of Business building, which bears the Grainger name. “This gift will provide facilities to tap the full potential of a newly revamped graduate curriculum in the business school,” said Chancellor John D. Wiley. “It will enable us to better serve the needs of students and provide a statewide boost for business development.” The new facility, which will face the corner of University Avenue and Park Street, is expected to open its doors to students in the fall of 2007. The new facility, Construction will require demolition of a University-owned building at 905 which is expected University Ave., home to several campus offices, which will be relocated. The addition has a price tag of $40 million. In addition to the to open its doors $20 million Grainger gift, there will be $10 million in gift funds and to students in fall $10 million in general fund supported borrowing.