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di g est Goizueta Business School Jon Mayblum 84BBA and Laura Mayblum 84C have funded an Adopt-A-Scholar Scholarship, awarded to a student using the resources of the Emory Disability Services Office.
Harry Rusche invests in Emory College students.
Building on the gift, the Emory Law Advisory Board is working to generate $250,000 in new gifts from alumni and $200,000 from Emory Law campaign and board leaders in the next three years. Harrison will match all new gifts at the Barrister ($1,000) and Dean’s Circle ($2,500) levels as part of the school’s “100 Barristers in 100 Days” program. Harrison is a partner in the Atlanta law firm Ford & Harrison, which he helped found in 1978. He served on Emory’s Board of Visitors from 1999 to 2002. He is a member of the Emory Law Advisory Board.
Beloved Professor Supports Scholarship If the measure of a teacher is a steadfast devotion to students, Harry Rusche ranks at the top. Rusche, former Arthur M. Blank Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at Emory College of Arts and Sciences, extends that dedication to his personal philanthropy. He and his wife, Sue, invest in the Harry and Sue Rusche Scholarship Fund, which supports a rising senior majoring in English at Emory College. The fund was established by Sam Stahl 03C and the Stahl Family Foundation.
Photo: Lash Harrison challenges other alumni to support the law school’s unrestricted fund.
Michael C. Carlos Museum The David R. Clare and Margaret C. Clare Foundation has pledged to support the Carlos Museum’s educational programs over the next four years. Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing To support the Emeritus Faculty Scholarship Fund, Lynda P. Nauright has designated the School of Nursing, where she taught for thirty years, as the beneficiary of her retirement plan. Oxford College The scholarship created by Luke Gregory 76OX 78C and Susan Gregory 77OX 79C in memory of classmate Michael S. Overstreet 76OX 78B has raised more than $70,000. The goal is $100,000.
Longtime Donors Support Oxford Science Building Oxford College alumnus Art Vinson 66OX 68C and his wife, Laurie, are supporting the fund-raising effort for a new science building on the Oxford campus. By designating Oxford as the beneficiary of a fully paid life insurance policy, the Vinsons are able to make a leadership gift to the project, which is one of Oxford’s top priorities. To learn about the creative options that gift planning offers, call 404.727.8875 or visit www.emory.edu/giftplanning.
JAMES T. LANEY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES Donors who want to honor former Emory President James Laney can invest in the James T. Laney Symposium endowment. Once funded, the symposium will be held annually on the anniversary of the graduate school’s naming.
Research leaders Stuart Zola (left) and Allan Levey
Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease The volunteer activities of Mary Rose Taylor have helped benefit the Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and its leaders, Emory neurologist Allan Levey and Emory neuroscientist Stuart Zola. Emory’s is the only comprehensive center in Georgia and one of few in the South.
Rollins School of Public Health Michael H. Kutner and his wife, Nancy, have established the Michael H. Kutner Fund for Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, which will support PhD candidates in biostatistics, and the Michael H. Kutner Award for achievement in biostatistics. Yerkes National Primate Research Center Donors can help advance science and improve health by investing in the Yerkes Fund for Excellence, which supports researchers seeking treatments, preventions, and cures.
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