December 17, 2008
http://foundation.boisestate.edu/
Campaign Gift Highlights:
- The Boise State University Foundation extends sincere thanks to all of the volunteers and friends who invest their time and resources into strengthening Boise State University. Together we make a difference in the lives of our students, faculty and community — we couldn’t do it without you. This comes with our best wishes for the holiday season and 2009.
- Thanks to Colliers International, Idaho for creating the Colliers International Scholarship in the College of Business and Economics.
- We are sincerely appreciative of Vera Marie Morrow for her recent bequest adding to the Sara Evelyn Morrow Nursing Scholarship. Morrow was a teacher who died in 2008 at age 102. She established the scholarship in memory of her daughter.
- We are pleased to welcome Janet Bannerman to the Bronco family. Bannerman moved to Boise a few years ago from North Carolina. She has deep roots in higher education and a sincere belief in the importance of a university to the town in which it is located. Bannerman created the Janet Bannerman Gift Annuity to benefit Boise State.
- We also extend grateful thanks to Duane and Lori Stueckle, St. Luke's Health System, Agri Beef Company, and Bob and Bonnie Schwenkfelder for payments on their generous pledges.
…values learning and its tradition of undergraduate teaching excellence, with its faculty receiving the Idaho Professor of the Year award 11 times since 1990 from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Volunteer
Profile: The date is Oct. 17 and the Broncos are taking on the University
of Hawaii at Bronco Stadium. At halftime, the Broncos are
ahead 10 to 7 and there is an energy in the air, a sense
that we are about to make a breakthrough. Suddenly, something completely unexpected
happens. Mark
Dunkley,
with several other volunteers, hand-carries a sleek Steinway
piano out to the 50-yard line. The performance of “Rhapsody
in Blue,” played on a Blue Steinway on our beloved blue turf, kicks off Boise
State’s All-Steinway initiative.
As an advisory board member for the College of Arts and Sciences, Dunkley is helping to raise $2.3 million for the purchase of 56 elegant Steinway pianos, not only for performance but also for practice and instruction. This will make Boise State one of only 63 all-Steinway schools in the nation and will put the music department in the company of schools like Yale and Juilliard. Dunkley and his wife, Karen, are the parents of five daughters and the grandparents of two. He owns and runs Dunkley Music and also volunteers as a board member for Boise Music Week, Opera Idaho, the Boise Philharmonic Association and National Association of Music Merchants. He is an active volunteer in his church and served a mission to Taiwan, where he learned to speak Mandarin Chinese.
Employee Giving Campaign: The employee giving campaign will wrap up at the end of 2008. This year’s campaign saw a two-fold increase in the number of employees who participated, with an overall 21 percent participation rate as of the beginning of December. The campus unit with the highest participation rate among its faculty and staff will be invited to a special recognition event held in the Stueckle Sky Center in late January or early February.
Alumni Legacy Scholarship: Applications are due Feb. 16 for this four-year, renewable scholarship available to a relative of a Boise State alumna or alumnus. The scholarship amount is equal to in-state fees during the fall and spring semesters. The application form must be completed and returned (along with a copy of the applicant’s academic transcript) to: Boise State Alumni Association c/o Alumni Legacy Scholarship Committee, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725-1035.
Bronco Athletic Association: The BAA appreciates all its supporters. Gift opportunities are available in several areas, including annual memberships, athletic scholarship endowments, capital projects, sports enhancements and planned giving. Visit www.broncosports.com and click on BAA for more information.
GIFT REPORT:
July 1, 2004, through Nov. 30, 2008
Campaign Total
$105,178,416.98
Percentage of $175 million goal
60.1 percent
Fund for the Future (revocable gifts)
$7,586,393.31
Percentage of $10 million goal
75.86 percent
Dec. 19: Graduation Celebration Breakfast for graduates and families, 8-10 a.m. in Bronco Gym
Dec. 19: Commencement, 10 a.m. in Taco Bell Arena
Dec. 23: Poinsettia Bowl: Boise State vs. Texas Christian University, 5 p.m. (PST) at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego
Dec. 30: Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl: University of Maryland vs. University of Nevada, 2:30 p.m. at Bronco Stadium
Jan. TBA: Second annual Bronco Advocacy Network event in Boise.
Jan 5: Final Fall Sports Luncheon, 11:30 a.m. in the Student Union Jordan Ballroom
Jan. 10: Benefit for Tuesday Musicale Scholarship with Del Parkinson, 7 p.m. in the Morrison Center Recital Hall
Jan. 19: Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights March and Rally, 9:30 a.m. in the Student Union
Jan. 22: Feminist and author Rebecca Walker, MLK keynote address, 6 p.m. Student Union Jordan Ballroom
Feb. 2: Frank Church Conference on Public Affairs
Feb. 7-13: Special Olympics World Winter Games
Feb. 16: Alumni Legacy Scholarship applications due. Applications available online.