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 Campaign Update
Thanks to the many alumni and friends who had the University of Maryland Great Expectations campaign on your holiday giving list. As of Dec. 31, your generous spirit had pushed the campaign total to $466,413,241. This surge in giving helps create new possibilities for student incentives, faculty recruitment, innovative programs and enriched environments all across the campus now and well into the future.
 Major Gifts, Major Impact
Loyal Terp Targets Gift to Academics and Athletics
Since age 11 when his Boy Scout troop served as ushers at Byrd Stadium, Barry P. Gossett has had a love affair with the University of Maryland. Expect to see Gossett and his wife Mary, wearing their Maryland red and cheering the Terps at numerous sporting events. Passionate supporters of Maryland’s athletics and academics for years, the Gossetts recently committed an additional $10 million to the Great Expectations campaign to fund athletics, the Maryland Incentive Awards Program and scholarships. But this generous gift creates even more great news for Northwestern High School students and alumni.
Creating Innovations to Change the World
Gift Creates Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development
As a youngster, barely tall enough to see the blueprints on the dining room table, John Colvin ’69 knew he wanted a life in real estate development. His mother, Neomie Colvin, was one of Maryland’s first female commercial real estate brokers, having shattered every glass ceiling in a man’s arena. Today, a successful commercial real estate developer, her son is ensuring the viability of a new generation of developers with a $3 million gift to the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. The gift from John and his wife Karen will provide a secure foundation for the university’s comprehensive graduate program in real estate development, which was launched in the fall of 2006.
Helping Students Reach for the Stars
ARCS Foundation Supports Student Research
Breakthrough discoveries don’t happen overnight.
Maryland’s graduate, and occasionally, undergraduate students are part
of a worldwide team of scientists and engineers conducting meticulous,
time-consuming research that may one day hold the key to new technological
advances. The ARCS Foundation, which has supported fledgling student research
since 1958, has funded four Maryland students this year who are exploring
new scientific possibilities ranging from development of new diagnostic
tools to understanding the interaction of ocean currents and the atmosphere.
Prince George’s County Council Earns Students’ Thanks
When a group of college students troop down to a local county council meeting, there’s often a protest in the making. Not so when University of Maryland Incentive Awards students met with the Prince George’s County Council in October. They, along with President C.D. Mote, Jr., went to thank the council for a gift of $1 million over two years for a program that awards full four-year scholarships and other support to county students who have beat the odds to achieve academically.
Energetic Couple Built Houses and a Legacy for Teachers
When Philip, M.Ed.’51 and Betty June Warner started building their first home following instructions from a Popular Mechanics book in the 1950s, they could not foresee that future real estate projects would help create a legacy to support their true passion of education. Drawing on the fruits of their life’s work, Philip Warner has honored the memory of his late wife with a $100,000 bequest to create an endowed scholarship in the College of Education that will provide need-based support to students who aspire to be teachers.
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