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From Jim Harden
’78BUS, ’83PH
Chair, Columbia Alumni Association, and
University Trustee
As we continue our fundraising for facilities, financial aid, and a host of other efforts, the new Columbia Alumni Center will be a significant resource as we work toward another Campaign goal: building connections among alumni. More›

Campaign News

Columbia College crownAlumni Center Ribbon Cutting, Open House
President Bollinger and alumni leaders were on hand October 9 to help dedicate the Columbia Alumni Center. The new facility welcomed hundreds of alumni to an “especially open house” just a week later, on October 15 and 16. More›

Columbia College crownBenefactors Dinner
Trustee Gerry Lenfest was among the speakers when Columbia honored its Benefactors earlier this month. This group, which comprises those alumni and friends who have donated $1 million or more to the University in their lifetimes, has grown by 143 since the last celebration five years ago. More›

Campaign Update
The Columbia Campaign has now surpassed the $3.3 billion fundraising mark, exceeding 82.5 percent of the $4 billion goal. In other news, the University received $32 million in matured bequests and $29 million in life income gift dollars in FY 2009. More›

CUMC Gifts & News

businessDental Medicine
Thomas J. Connolly ’77DM, ’80DM, DDS, chair of the College of Dental Medicine’s campaign, pledged $50,000 to establish the Dr. Thomas and Arlene Connolly and Family Scholarship Fund.
Nursing
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45NRS and Sally Shipley Stone ’69NRS are co-chairs of a gala benefit at Low Library planned for November 9, 2009, in honor of Mary O'Neil Mundinger ’81PH, as she steps down after nearly 24 years as dean of the School of Nursing. More than $1.8 million has been raised to date toward endowing a chair in Dean Mundinger's name.

businessPhysicians & Surgeons
A new endowed professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will honor training director Clarice Kestenbaum, MD, while Constance and Stephen Lieber and the Essel Foundation continue support for schizophrenia research and treatment. Also: generous gifts to Ob-Gyn, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, and more›

Public Health
The Hess Foundation adds $2.5 million in support for the new Leon Hess Endowed Professorship in Environmental Health Sciences. Also, an anonymous donor makes a gift of $300,000 to support the National Center for Children in Poverty.

Morningside Gifts & News

Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
A gift of $100,000 in memory of Ann Kalla '80GSAPP will be used to establish the Ann Kalla Scholarship Fund. This endowed fund will provide scholarships with the purpose of increasing gender diversity in the field.
businessAthletics
Philip Satow '63CC has donated $1.5 million for renovations to Columbia's baseball stadium, which will be named for the Satow family. A former second baseman for the Lions, Satow was inspired to make this gift by the example of his classmate, Robert Kraft '63CC, who made a similar donation in support of Columbia football.
Business
A gift from the John Templeton Foundation establishes the new Program on Indian Economic Policies, and Board Co-Chair James Gorman ’87BUS, of Morgan Stanley, supports a new professorship of business strategy. More›

businessColumbia College
A bequest gift from the estate of Rose Kovner will establish a scholarship fund of almost $3.77 million to benefit Columbia College students. The Kovner Scholarship Fund honors the memory of Mrs. Kovner’s late husband, Harold Kovner ’23CC, ’25LAW.

Earth Institute
Recent gifts support Millennium Villages in Kenya, the China 2049 Initiative, and the Center for Global Health and Economic Development, in addition to providing a scholarship for a PhD student from a developing country. Also, a new series of events looks to engage donors and potential donors on ecology, biodiversity, climate change, and other issues. More›

businessEngineering and Applied Science
Ming Chung Liu and Zhang Yin, the parents of a 2009 alumnus, have donated $2 million in support of the newly created Liu Family Professorship of Industrial Engineering.

Libraries
A $200,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation will support a science library in the new Northwest Corner Building now being completed on Morningside Campus. More›

Social Work
A donor has made a $200,000 donation to the School of Social Work to create the Children, Families and Communities Criminal Justice Initiative Fund.

Editor’s Note
Thanks to the many colleagues in Columbia’s alumni and development community who provide information and assistance in the preparation of Columbia Campaign Update.

If you have any comments regarding this newsletter, please contact Marcus Tonti.

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