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 The Iowa Stater
February, 1997

Campaign going strong

ast fall, Iowa State publicly launched its most ambitious fund- raising effort ever, setting a $300 million goal for the five-year campaign. Since then, alumni and friends generously have pledged support to Iowa State in its quest to become the best among its land-grant peers. "Campaign Destiny: To Become the Best" had raised almost $145 million as of Dec. 31, 1996.

Gifts received before the kick-off last September included a $34 million anonymous estate gift to the College of Agriculture, a $6 million gift from Stanley and Helen Howe of Muscatine for the Engineering Teaching and Research Complex, a $1 million gift from Enlow and Melena Ose for National Merit scholarships, and a $1 million gift from Jim and Barbara Palmer of State College, Pa., toward construction of a human development and family studies building. Iowa State also received half of the $27 million estate of Rockwell City farm manager and lawyer F. Wendell Miller. Other major gifts announced last fall include:

    A $1 million gift from Richard H. and Mary Jo Stanley, Muscatine, to establish the Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering.

    A $1 million deferred gift from Stanley C. and Jane Stallings Benbrook, Buchanan Dam, Texas, to endow the Benbrook Professorship in Veterinary Medicine. The Benbrooks also established scholarships in the colleges of Design and Family and Consumer Sciences.

    A $1 million deferred gift from Kent and Linda Fritz, Madison, Wis., to establish the Martin F. Fritz Endowed Chair in Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

    $1 million from John and Mary Pappajohn, Des Moines, to start an entrepreneurship center in the College of Business. A $400,000 grant from the Exxon Education Foundation to the College of Education and King-Perkins Elementary Schools in Des Moines to fund MathCo, a model teacher preparation and staff development program to improve math education.

Several events on campus last fall also reflect Iowa State's progress toward becoming the best land-grant university. They include:

    Dedication of the Richard O. Jacobson Building, a 40,000-- square-foot facility at the north end of Cyclone Stadium, named for a Des Moines businessman and philanthropist. Groundbreaking for the Intensive Lives tock Research Complex, an addition to Kildee Hall-Meat Laboratory. This $18.7 million animal science teaching and research facility will be funded through private and public resources.

    Dedication of the Parks Library Preservation Lab, a $300,000 project funded in part through private support. The new facility is well equipped for book repair and conservation.

    Dedication of the Andersen Undergraduate Services Center in the College of Business. The $90,000 center -- which provides students with orientation, advising and class scheduling services -- is funded through gifts from alumni employed by Arthur Andersen LLP and Andersen Consulting, combined with a matching corporate gift from the Andersen companies. The world-wide Andersen companies are headquartered in Chicago.

-- Dalene Abner, ISU Foundation

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