Cox Foundation Creates Chair in Neurology
Benefits of Optimism Soon after we announced Campaign Emory in 2008, an economic earthquake shook the nation. We decided to move ahead with confidence and optimism, telling Emory’s remarkable stories as often as possible and helping people match their philanthropic goals to the university’s work. The result has been some of the most robust support we’ve ever seen. Alumni and friends have rallied to invest in Emory’s key priorities— linking those priorities with their own charitable interests—in ways that have created great momentum for the university as we head into the final year of the campaign. As an investment, Emory has great value. Private gifts fuel efforts to create positive change through education, research, patient care, and community service at home and abroad. As an institution, Emory has great integrity, and our donors trust that Emory will manage their investments well. Alumni and friends supporting Emory during this challenging economic time are creating a lasting legacy, building a culture of philanthropy that will span generations. Learn more by visiting campaign.emory.edu.
Susan Cruse, Senior Vice President Development and Alumni Relations
Philanthropist Betty Gage Holland, shown here in
The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation has 1990 with her granddaughter Sciascia Gambaccini, is being memorialized with a chair in neurology. established the Betty Gage Holland Chair in Neurology at Emory School of Medicine. The inaugural holder of the chair will be Allan Levey, who directs Emory’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and chairs the Department of Neurology. Holland was the widow of the former chair of Cox Enterprises, James (Jim) M. Cox Jr., who died in 1974. Holland married William Jackson Holland in 1979. Before her husband’s death in 2001, Levey was his physician, and Holland had the opportunity to get to know Levey at office visits. Betty Gage Holland passed away in 2004. The Cox Foundation has supported many educational enterprises, most of them in and around Atlanta, where Holland had deep roots. Her daughters, Bettie Gambaccini and Sallie Marcucci, who live abroad, are members of the Distribution Committee of the Cox Foundation and have participated in commitments of $100,000 annually to neurosciences research at Emory since 1990. In addition to supporting the health sciences, the foundation committed $2 million in 2007 to establish a chair in Roman history at Emory, also in memory of Holland, an avid traveler and art lover.
New Endowment Celebrates Alumna The late Judith London Evans 69C is being honored with an endowed position in Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Led by her husband, Eli, and son Josh, the fundraising effort for the endowment received broad An endowed directorship at the Tam Institute support from family, friends, classmates, for Jewish Studies celebrates the late Judith and colleagues and a matching gift from the London Evans 69C. Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. Now fully funded, the Judith London Evans Directorship of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies will support faculty and student research. “Emory’s Tam Institute is among the nation’s top centers for teaching and research in Jewish history, thought, and culture. Judith London Evans was among Emory’s best students and most loyal alumni. The Judith London Evans Directorship is an example of philanthropy at its most thoughtful,” says Emory College Dean Robin Forman. Evans, who received a Distinguished Alumni and Faculty Award in 2006, helped create the Tam Institute as an alumni adviser and is the first woman honored by the institute. f o r m o re ca m pa i g n n ews , v i s i t ca m pa i g n . e m o r y. ed u / n ews
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