Word: funded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House residents also plan an annual ice skating charity event called Evening With Champions, which draws such stars as Paul Wylie '91 and Oksana Bayul to raise money for the Jimmy Fund...
...rather than my grandparents or even my parents slaving away to put two daughters, a smaller family than many undergraduates I know, through college. It was fundraising time for seniors, and I was about to enter the pool of possible philanthropists. Working at the Radcliffe College Fund during my first year at the College, I learned the fundraising lingo, learned about the prizes for those who raised the most and how to carefully ease alums toward a larger donation. But somewhere in the process of phone calls and free ice cream at Herrells I started thinking: "Someday...
...give a million dollars through their granddaughter to Senior Gift (let's face it, no students are making enough now by themselves to give hundreds of dollars of their own money earned without any major fiscal support from their family). I say wonderful--let them give, let them fund students like myself (Class of 1954 scholarship recipient). Theirs is a gift that keeps on giving, however, and lest we forget it gives to me and them. Many gifts contribute to reputations and bring great personal satisfaction to benefactor (I didn't write all those letters of gratitude to members...
This decision has prompted a mixture of anxiety and disdain from friends with Senior Gift posts. Maybe they feel the way I did when an alum refused to give to Radcliff College Fund: no special prizes, and above all, no score for me. But the fact that they construe my choice as selfish or unthinking makes me suspect there's something more behind the need to make everyone give. Sort of like Secret Santa, where everyone is assigned a gift and recipient but ends up giving boring little gifts to the sole satisfaction of the person coordinating the affair...
Dunn, who left the college after a seven-year term to become chief financial officer for the Washington-based World Wildlife Fund, continues to serve as Radcliffe's treasurer and member of its Board of Trustees. She was one of four high-level Radcliffe administrators to step down since June...