A gift announced at the October meeting of the Board of Trustees will help make Colby a leader among liberal arts colleges in the area of Jewish studies.
The Pulver Family Chair in Judaic Studies, a $1.1-million endowed
professorship that will be filled during the academic year 1997-98, will
allow Colby to proceed with plans for a program in Jewish studies. The chair
is a gift of David and Carol Pulver of Mendham, N.J. David Pulver, a member of
Colby's Class of 1963 and of the College's trustee board, is president of
Cornerstone Capital Inc. The Pulvers' daughter, Stephanie, graduated from Colby
in 1993.
Alumni Trustees Nominates
Three alumni have been nominated for positions as alumni trustees whose terms would begin at Commencement 1997: Susan Comeau '63, Carol Beaumier '72, and John Cornell '65.
Trustee Paul J. Schupf has again demonstrated extraordinary generosity to the College--this time in a way that--he hopes--will spur equal generosity from someone else.
At the October board meeting, even as the College feted Schupf at dedications
for the Paul J. Schupf Wing of the Colby Museum of Art and the Paul J. Schupf
Scientific Computing Center, President Bill Cotter announced a new gift. Cotter
told the trustees that Schupf has pledged $1 million toward the building of the
new, three-winged residence hall currently under construction on Mayflower
Hill. The gift, Cotter said, is contingent on the College finding a third donor
at the $1-million level. Trustee Robert Anthony '38 also has donated $1 million
to the project, and he and Schupf and the third donor will each have a wing of
the residence hall named for them.
In order to take advantage of Schupf's pledge, the College must identify the third $1-million donor by March.
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