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Annual Giving These unrestricted funds give Princeton University the flexibility to undertake critical new initiatives such as developing the neuroscience program and attracting world renowned faculty before a permanent endowment is fully in place. Please respond to our class agent Herb Kaufmann and his able assistant, Wendy Dunn, from the Princeton University Office for Annual Giving. In the January 2021 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, President Eisgruber wrote about the 20th anniversary of Princeton’s pioneering no-loan financial aid program. The program allows students, regardless of financial background, to graduate with no debt. It enables them to embark on their futures without that financial worry. Annual Giving helped start the groundbreaking program that makes this possible. Now, twenty years later, Annual Giving’s support continues to ensure the financial aid program. Every student that Princeton admits, can afford to attend, and to graduate with little or no debt. In 2001, 41% of undergraduates received financial aid. Last year about 62% received aid, with an average grant of $56,000. Some students do take out loans for discretionary items, such as laptops. Those students have a debt averaging $9,500, one of the lowest in the nation. But, and here’s the take-home fact, 83% of Princetonians graduate without any debt.
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Princeton Class of 1955 Annual Giving 2024-25
Hello to all Classmates, and all others who contributed to our 2024-25 Annual Giving campaign, We have reason to be proud of ourselves; 55%, (116) of our Classmates, 28 of our class widows, some honorary classmates, and several Classmates’ foundations, gave a total of $197,134.00 to Annual Giving. That’s $42,000 more, and a slightly higher percentage of Classmates than gave last year. Sadly, we lost 29 Classmates during the Giving year, so our actual percentage of contributors is higher. But we’ll all agree that 55 is a nice number. The University overall participation was about 44%.
What made this success possible are the co-chairmen of campaign; John Castle, Bob Collier, Lud Gutmann, Bud Harper, Mike Lee, Don Madden, Bob McClanahan, Alan McDougall, Frank Mountcastle, J.V. Quarles, Paul Slimmon, Nelson Wild, and, Bill Burks who, sad to say, left us this spring.
Some of us have given every year for 70 years. Jim Babcock suggested that the yearly contributors be called the Never Miss Group: Ron Fredrik, Renn Gordon, John Hastings, Allen Johnson, Herb Kaufmann, Flix Kloman, Greg Kuhns, Frank Mountcastle, Alam MacDougall, Scott McVay, Lee Neuwirth, J.V. Quarles, Bill Roemer, Bob Shoemaker, Rich Thompson, Jeff Traenkle, Alan Willemsen, Dick Walker, and Albert Yort.
Here is a list of the class widows who gave. I see their gifts as testaments to how vital the Princeton experience was for their husbands, and how that regard persists. Gayle Barron (Roger), Barbara Berger (Barry Miller), Marjorie Bhavnani (Ashok), Kathleen Brown (Peter), Virginia Burns (Denis), Carolyn Emery (Dick), Betty Lou Frye (Dick), Susan Dillon (Richard S.), Gloria Doyle (Pat), Carol Henn (Jack), Sarah Hemphill (Marshall), Susan Johnston (Bill Graham), Barbara Mack (Ted) , Lilian “Duff” Matt (FX), Mary McCoy (Gene), Mildred McGough (Jim), Gaynelle Mendelson (Alton), Ann Mills (Bill), Nancy Olson (Jon), Glenda Paige (Glenn), Mary Pritchard (Tom), Reit Reid (Jim), Marie Rosenbloom (Marshall), Helen Schwab (John), Anne Schwartz (Marc), Valerie Terry (Todd), and Gayelle Todd (Richard). I needn’t reiterate the many ways Annual Giving supports the University and the students. Nor will I discuss the current pressures that Princeton and its brother universities are now suffering from outside forces. Your support will help maintain “The best old place of all”.
Thanks,
Have a good summer,
Herbert J. Kaufmann Annual Class Giving Agent |
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Herb Kaufmann Upper New England Richard H. Evans, Esq. Lower New England A. Reynolds Gordon, Esq.
New York State Thomas E. White
New York City
Barry S. Savits Northern New Jersey
Robert C. McClanahan, Jr | Mid-Atlantic Baltimore-Washington
Conrad R. Harper
Oral O. Miller South
Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr.
Joseph V. Quarles, III Florida
James Jehle Mideast
Edgar J. Mack | Midwest John W. Castle Great Plains Ludwig Gutmann
Southwest
Frank T. Crews, Jr.
West
Myron S. Lee Northern California
Nelson Wild Southern California
Robert H. Collier
Europe
John R. Scherer |
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