Building a Legacy: Kicking off Last Fundraising Year Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship Status Update

Building a Legacy: Kicking off Last Fundraising Year

Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship Status Update

Status: $0 out of $2500 goal for Fiscal Year 2015

Still need: ~$5,900 (includes supporting administrative costs) to meet final program goal of $25,000 for endowed scholarship.

Can you believe it is Apple Cider & Donut Season?! As this is our last year to try to raise funds officially for the program, I thought it would be good to start out early. From the status, you can see we are close to achieving our overall goal to raise $25,000 plus our stretch of an additional $2,500 to support the administrative costs at SWE Headquarters (HQ).  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. As a quick reminder, anyone can donate to the fund even though our group of section past presidents have come together and taken the lead.  

To donate online: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YJWNQPMR9GB2J.  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 09/16/14):

Diamond ($1000+)

Miriam Breslauer

Sarah Kirkish

Jessica Mattis

Jennifer Morikawa

Laurie Ramsay

Sapphire Level ($500+)

Janice T. Ford

Lisa Purvis

Brooke Voto

Emerald Level ($250+)

Anna Bradford                                           

Cindy Hodges

Alison Holmes

Judy Jbara

Marie (Demos) Kardasis

Cathi Kohn

Kristin Ramey

Irene Sharpe

Quartz Level

Jennifer (Darnell) Briggs

Andy Chen (In Honor of Jennifer Morikawa)

Diana Cernis

Silvia Karlsson

Lydia Lazurenko

Stacy (Thayer) Lueneburg

Tina Lonski (In Honor of Jennifer Darnell)

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