DONORS Toomey’s $5 million sets pace for ME/AE Complex project
Alumnus’ gift benefits design teams
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ollowing the success of UMR’s Solar Car Team in the pages of this magazine helped get John Latzer, ME’61, of Parsons, Kan., interested in all of UM R’s student design teams. His recent donation of $25,000 to support the UMR Student Design C enter will help all the teams in their quest for continued success. “I am excited by lans to modernize the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering technology and its place in the world,” says Latzer. “UMR did so much Complex moved a tremendous step forward this past year, for me educationally and professionally that I felt a need to give back. I thanks to a $5 million pledge from John and Mary Toomey and their contributed to the student design teams, and I wish so much that they family. A Navy fighter pilot had been available when I went to UMR. They are an opportunity not during World W ar II who only to advance technology, but for the students to get their hands on came to MSM on the Gl that infamous ‘real w orld.’” Bill, John, ME’49, MS M E’51, enjoyed a Endowment supports Pi Kappa Alpha successful engineering career with W estinghouse, s the UMR chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity prepares the Navy and Corvey to celebrate its 100-year anniversary, one of the fraternity’s Engineering before starting brothers is helping future members of that group celebrate a different his own company in 1959. kind of “century” milestone. Through a $100,000 gift to the MSM-UMR The Toomey fam ily gift is Alum ni Association, David C. Grimm, MetE’50, of Clinton, Conn., the largest ever to a UMR has established a scholarship endowment to benefit Pi Kappa Alpha academ ic program, and members. This fund will provide approxim ately $5,000 in aid to students it provides the foundation needed to raise additional funds for UM R ’s each year. “I just wanted to do something for the school, and top priority - the renovation and expansion of the ME/AE Complex. somewhere along the line the idea of a scholarship for the fraternity “I’m very happy to invest in the future of both the mechanical and came up,” says Grimm. “I’m pleased to be able to help the university aerospace engineering programs and UMR,” says John. in this way.”
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Alumni ($5,532,940) Businesses ($3,051,582) Friends ($1,746,238) Foundations ($670,421) Other Organizations ($40,562)
Cash ($4,289,202) Bequests ($913,697) In-Kind Gifts ($1,811,581) Outstanding Pledges ($1,607,263) ■ Outstanding Deferred Gifts ($2,420,000)