Castle Hot Springs brochure
In December 1978 Ted Riggins was elected chairman of the board. Vice chairmen were Wally Craig, Jack Whiteman and Rex Staley; Ed Carson was treasurer; Wayne Legg was secretary; and Kay Gammage served as associate secretary. Carl Miller continued as president. The deferred giving program, which had become a pillar of foundation fundraising, had been launched in 1975 when Tempe resident Elmo Gerber obtained a pooledincome fund unitrust and life annuity in exchange for 11 acres of land on Apache Boulevard. The property was valued at approximately $400,000. Under terms of the agreement, Gerber and his family were to receive a 5-percent annuity from the foundation. Not long afterward, the deferred gifts committee, chaired by Riggins, reported that a campaign was being inaugurated to encourage more deferred gifts. In his 1981 report to the foundation board, Bud Dooley, director of planned giving, said 91 people had pledged deferred donations that would eventually total more than $18 million. Miller reported at the end of 1979
that land acquisitions were corning in at an increasing pace. Families as far away as Sedona in the north and Sulfur Springs Valley in southern Arizona were working with the real estate committee. Away from the ASU Foundation and the university’s classroom and research labs, the Sun Devils’ outstanding intercollegiate athletics programs had long attracted devoted friends and generous donors. Its football teams, beginning with Dan Devine’s success as head coach in 1955–57 and continuing for the next 20 years under Frank Kush, filled Sun Devil Stadium and generated national publicity. Kush teams not only beat the rival University of Arizona Wildcats with monotonous regularity, they defeated Nebraska and other powers as well. Son of a western Pennsylvania coal miner, Kush had earned All-America honors as a Michigan State lineman before becoming Devine’s line coach in 1955. When he succeeded Devine as ASU’s head coach in 1958 he employed his tough, physical style in molding hundreds of future professional stars. ASU Foundation for A New American University
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