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A Letter from ENMU Foundation’s President, Stephen Doerr
The ENMU Foundation is proud to support this second edition of the ENMU Effect newsletter. There was a tremendous response to the first issue from our alumni that we want to continue reaching out to you via this newsletter. If you have an interesting story to share, we would like to hear about it.
Whenever I travel I try to wear an ENMU shirt, cap or sweatshirt. It’s amazing the places, from California, Texas, or wherever, that people have come up and told me what they know about Eastern or having attended there. One of our ENMU Foundation board members reported that when she was in Canada she was wearing an ENMU lapel pin when someone approached her and told her he had lost his ENMU pin and asked how he could get a replacement. She gave her pin to him on the spot. Another alumna reported she was in New York City visiting her son and went to the hotel front desk to mail a package back to Portales. After handing the package to the clerk, he looked at the address and said “I know where Portales is, that’s home of Eastern New Mexico University.” Do you have a similar story? Have you been in a coffee shop, store or maybe even an airport when someone approached you because you were wearing ENMU apparel or seen someone else who was? If so, let us know. We would like to hear your unique story and possibly include it in the next ENMU Effect newsletter. (And, if you are interested in obtaining ENMU apparel, you can do so by going online at www.enmu.edu.)
As of Dec. 31, 2007, the ENMU Foundation had $8.47 million in assets. The ENMU Foundation supported over $532,000 in scholarships for the 2007-2008 academic year. This is an increase of $286,300 for scholarships compared to the previous fiscal year. In the fall of 2007, the ENMU Foundation had also made a gift of $200,000 to ENMU that was matched by a State of New Mexico contribution of $500,000 to create a new ENMU scholarship endowment totaling $700,000. As ENMU President Dr. Steven Gamble notes in his report, attendance at Eastern continues to increase. The need for additional funding for ENMU scholarships is greater than ever.
We are pleased to announce that ENMU will recognize its first honorees to the Educators Hall of Honors this Homecoming on Oct. 25, 2008. This will be an annual awards presentation to those ENMU education graduates who have had a long and distinguished career in education. ENMU graduates who have professional accomplishments, exceptional character and community service will be considered. If you know of someone who you think deserves to be nominated, please complete the nomination form included with this newsletter or go online at www enmu.edu/alumni to download the PDF form.
Please be sure to take a moment after you have read this newsletter and write us a letter, drop a note or send an e-mail to Noelle Bartl (noelle. bartl@enmu.edu) or Janice Cowen (janice.cowen@enmu.edu). We would like to hear from you!
Sincerely,
Stephen Doerr, ENMU Foundation President
