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LEGACY
BY MARY RETTIG
As I draft this column, we’re amid university and collegiate annual report season and online giving days (thanks to all who gave during UI’s “One Day for Iowa” on March 24). Giving Days are useful tools for engaging and encouraging new supporters, while the annual reports share successes and, sometimes, highlight generous donors. The latter is the focus of this column.
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SUMMER 2021
Meet Alan and Ann January, who are longtime advocates of the University of Iowa, including the UI Libraries. Both families have roots in Iowa. Alan’s parents met at the UI prior to World War II and subsequently moved to Arizona, where Alan was born. In 1946, the family returned to Iowa City. Ann claims Cedar Rapids as her hometown (read more about her family’s history in Iowa on page 33). Both did graduate work at the UI, Ann in political science while Alan earned a PhD in history. Alan reports having “made extensive use of the Libraries' extraordinary resources [during] doctoral research, especially the Interlibrary Loan Department, which located obscure resources as far away as the UK.”