Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Past Presidents' Post

Building a Legacy: Final Year – Almost There!
Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship Status Update

Status: FY15 Goal - $2,860 out of $2500 – GOAL ACHIEVED!, Overall Goal – ~98% to target!
Still need: ~$560 (includes supporting administrative costs) to meet final program goal of $27,500 for endowed scholarship.

We have some EXCITING NEWS! We achieved our first fundraising goal and are very close to our stretch goal of $27,500 to support an endowed scholarship and the administrative costs at SWE Headquarters (HQ). We can still use those contributions! We will be starting the paperwork to submit for the endowed scholarship and the funds to SWE HQ. We will have exceeded the plan for the program and maybe able to submit before the end of FY15 thus providing the potential to award the 1st scholarship 1 year earlier than anticipated! We will confirm once the paper work is submitted as the funds need to earn interest for 1 fiscal year before it can be awarded. As a reminder, the HQ staff support includes verifying that the recipient is entering into an accredited University and sends the check to the University in the student’s name.  

If you know any of the past SWE Detroit Presidents, please help us communicate to them. We have found that they, like many of you, are super busy and can miss the posts and emails. So if you see them at work or outside, please tell them what you have read on the blog. Not a past SWE D president? Don’t worry, anyone can donate to the fund even though our group of section past presidents have come together and taken the lead. Every little bit helps, so we encourage you to donate if you can. After this year, you can still designate funds for our endowment and we can put in a lump sum each year to grow it toward a higher scholarship value.      

To donate online go to www.swedetroit.org and look for the Donate Button on the site for Paypal.  After you submit your information and input your donation amount, you will have the opportunity to designate your donation. Please input in the text field, “Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship or PP Scholarship” to allow it to be allocated appropriately.

To donate via check: mail the check to Society of Women Engineers – Detroit, PO Box 2978, Southfield, MI 48037 and place in the memo section “PP Scholarship”.

Thank you Past Presidents, Members, and friends of SWE Detroit who have donated so far (updated as of 01/4/15):

Diamond ($1000+)
Miriam Breslauer
Sarah Kirkish
Jessica Mattis
Jennifer Morikawa
Lisa Purvis
Laurie Ramsay
Brooke Voto

Sapphire Level ($500+)
Janice T. Ford
Cathi Kohn
Irene Sharpe
Bond Desk/Tradeweb (Company Match in honor of Brooke Voto)

Emerald Level ($250+)
Alison (Holmes) Bazil
Anna Bradford                                           
Alan Cooper
Cindy Hodges
Judy Jbara
Marie (Demos) Kardasis
Silvia Karlsson
Kristin Ramey

Quartz Level
Jennifer (Darnell) Briggs
Andy Chen (In Honor of Jennifer Morikawa)
Diana Cernis
Lydia Lazurenko
Stacy (Thayer) Lueneburg
Tina Lonski (In Honor of Jennifer Darnell)
Kristine Lott
Lauren Thompson
Dawn Tilbury
T. Rowe Price (Company Match in honor of Janice Ford)
Birgit Sorgenfrei


Special thanks to the following for pledging to contribute for each year of the program:
Silvia Karlsson
Catherine Kohn
Jennifer Morikawa
Laurie Ramsay
Irene Sharpe

“Missing” Past Presidents:           
Years of Service
Name
1952 – 1954
M. Ann Lawrence
1954 – 1956
Elise H. McGough
(Passed Away 2005)
1956 – 1957
Geneva Van Horn
1958 - 1960, 1961 - 1962, 1964 - 1965
Marjorie Easterbrook
1962 – 1964
Mary G. Sohler
1965 - 1968, 1976 - 1977, 1977 - 1978
Ann O. Fletcher
(Passed Away 2010)
1968 - 1969, 1969 – 1970
Stella Berbynuk
(Passed Away 1997)
1970 - 1971, 1971 – 1972
Helma Fuhrmann
1972 – 1973
Eva Michalski Quinn
1973 – 1974
Beverly Bush
1974 – 1976
Janet Hall


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