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To inspire their classmates to participate, members pooled $55,000 to create a challenge match. For every dollar that classmates give, a dollar from the challenge pool will match it, one to one. And to make things even more challenging, a time limit was set for challenge-related contributions: June 30, 2004. By the time their 45th anniversary reunion rolls around in 2008, the committee hopes the class will have raised $250,000 for the scholarship.
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“To actually meet the person who has benefited from your philanthropy is an uplifting and wonderful experience for a
Standing: Carleen Zebuhr ’05, recipient of the Russell C. Fischer Scholarship & Class of 1946 Endowed Scholarship; Nicholas Penetta ’05, Russell C. Fischer Scholarship and Measey Scholarship recipient; Chitra Sambasivan ’04, Measey Scholarship recipient; and Jaime Alton ’04, Measey Scholarship beneficiary. Sitting: Harry Field, DDS ’48 and Selma (Sandy) Sugarman, representing the Sam Sugarman, MD ’39 Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund.
For more information on making gifts to fund this or any scholarship fund, contact John Walker, Senior Director of Development, at 800-331-2839 or 215-707-4484 or john.walker@temple.edu.
donor,” says Irv Hurwitz, Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at the School. “And it is just as moving and motivating for the student who is beneficiary,” he continues.
About 175 scholarship donors and recipients enjoyed one another’s company at the 2003 dinner, including the following:
Audrey Uknis, MD ’87,TUSM’s Associate Dean of Admissions and founder of the Medical Scholars Financial Assistance Fund, with Asma Mahedavi ’06, a Fund scholar.
Laura Martine ’05 and Brian Johnson ’06, recipients of the Salvitti Family Endowed Medical Scholarship; Colleen Annesley ’06, beneficiary of the Class of 1969 Endowed Scholarship, the Mantell Scholarship and Louis Tuft Scholarship; and Francis Burt ’06, recipient of the Salvitti Family Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund.
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“Establishing a fund that will help medical students following in our footsteps at such a wonderful institution seems to me the perfect anniversary gift,” said Dr. Albertson.
* 2003 Scholarship Recognition Dinner Each spring, the School of Medicine invites scholarship donors and the students who receive their scholarships to dinner on campus. The 2003 event, like those in years prior, conjured sentiments of gratitude and gratefulness.
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Chitra Sambasivan ’04 and Jamie Alton ’04, Measey Scholarship fund recipients; and Annie Kotto ’04, Dorothy E. Kriebel, MD, Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund recipient.
Dean Daly with Angelo M. DiGeorge, MD ’46, representing the Class of 1946 Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund; and E. Howard Bedrossian, MD ’45, and his wife Adelle, representing the Bedrossian Memorial Scholarship and Loan Fund.
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