G!V!NG TO ALB!ON
Leadership Gifts Advance Library Renovation Project Albion College’s distinctive “Albion Advantage” lays an even stronger path from college to career, thanks to recent major gifts in support of the Stockwell Library renovation plans. The College completed Phase I of the Stockwell renovation with the opening of Cutler Commons on the building’s main level last fall. The College has now entered Phase II of the library campaign, which includes the redesign of Stockwell’s lower level and top floors. Phase II of the renovation project officially began with the announcement in April of a $1-million grant from the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation of Midland. The foundation’s gift anchors a $6.15-million fundraising campaign currently under way for further improvements in this landmark building. In particular, the Gerstacker
After relocation of all print materials to the Mudd building, the upper two floors of Stockwell Library will be redesigned with flexible spaces for individual and group study. Each floor will overlook a light-filled atrium that will connect all four levels of the building.
Foundation gift will assist with the incorporation of advanced technology in the library and will support the move of the Office of Career Development into the John S. Ludington Career and Internship Center on the building’s lower level. In May, the College announced that an estate gift of former Dow Corning executive and Albion trustee John Ludington, ’51, will also help underwrite the Ludington Career and Internship Center. His children, who helped make this gift possible, include current trustee Thomas Ludington, ’76, Laura Ludington Hollenbeck, ’78, and Annie Ludington Sullivan, ’82. “We’re very excited about how the Ludington Career and Internship Center supports the Albion Advantage,” said Albion College President Donna Randall. “Our faculty and facilities are first-rate in their ability to prepare students for 21st-century careers. The Ludington Center will offer valuable assistance to our students as they conduct their job or graduate school search.”