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The Graduate Center Foundation, Inc. Gifts and Pledges 2001 & 2002 (as of September 30) $1,000,000+ Altman Foundation **Baisley Powell Elebash Fund $100,000-$999,999 Anonymous Donor AT&T Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Monroe J. Carell, Jr. *The Durst Organization L.P. *Diego Hidalgo **Amie and Tony James Jewish Foundation for Education of Women **Mr. and Mrs. J. Seward Johnson, Jr. **The Frederick P. & Sandra P. Rose Foundation *Jill & Marshall Rose Family Foundation, Inc. Arthur Ross Foundation, Inc. **May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. **Martin E. and Edith Segal *Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith **Mei and Ronald Stanton *The Starr Foundation **Janet and Howard Stein Charles J. Tanenbaum and Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum $10,000-$99,999 Adelson Galleries, Inc. Anonymous Donors (4) Vincent Astor Foundation Albert and Lin Bildner Booth Ferris Foundation Professor Randolph L. Braham Central Parking Systems City College 21st Century Foundation, Inc. *The Cousins Charitable Foundation The Donald Douglass Foundation Edith and Henry J. Everett *42nd Street Development Corporation /The 42nd Street Fund Gensler Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation The Florence Gould Foundation Michael Hecht Andrew Heiskell *Helenia Fund Hines Interests Limited Partnership Imperial Parking, Inc. Insignia/ESG, Inc. J.P. Morgan Chase The Mitchell Kapor Foundation The Kennedy Family Kekst and Company Incorporated Ladies' Christian Union Lazard Freres & Co. LLC The Litwin Foundation, Inc. The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Alex & Marie Manoogian Foundation New School University The New York Times Co. Foundation, Inc. Newmark & Company Real Estate Inc. Peter Norton Family Foundation Morton Olshan The Overbrook Foundation Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations Henri Peyre French Institute Pfizer Inc. Dr. Adamantia Pollis *Pumpkin Trust The Putnam Publishing Group Patsy Rogers Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Inc. *The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The San Francisco Foundation The Honorable Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. The Sara Lee Schupf Revoc. Trust Bernard L. Schwartz **The Segal Company Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Beatrice B. Slater *Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation, Inc. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Honorable Jean Kennedy Smith Spanierman Gallery, LLC W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation John H. Streicker Stroock & Stroock & Lavan *The Julien Studley Foundation Tishman Construction Corp. of New York TishmanSpeyer Properties Bartholomew Voorsanger Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Samuel Waksal $1,000-$9,999 A/R Environetics Group, Inc. Alexander Acevedo The Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group, LLC Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc. Advanced Contracting Corporation Allen & Company Alterman & Boop, P.C. Dr. Lewis J. Altfest and Dr. Karen C. Altfest *AOL Time Warner Inc. Dr. Garo Armen The Arnow Family Fund Alberta B. Arthurs ASM Mechanical Systems Robert Bahssin The Bank of New York Karen Bechtel Dr. Georgette Bennett Max Berry Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. Bialkin Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David M. Billings Bingham Dana Professor Rosemarie Bletter Dr. Sarah E. Boslaugh Len Braarud Daniel Brodsky Brows Family Fund Fortuna Calvo-Roth Cashin Family Fund Professor Mary Ann Caws Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies Anna C. Chave Christie's The Clarett Group Clarion Partners Geraldine H. Coles Trust Thomas Colville Component Assembly Systems Joan G. Cooney & Peter G. Peterson Susan Daniels Professor Kay Deaux Professor Michael Devitt Professor Martin Duberman Dunphy Family Foundation Eastern Consolidated Properties, Inc. Joan K. Easton Henry Eckert Inger Elliott Linda A. & James H. Ellis Fund Felix Bloch Erben Joseph M. Erdelac Exxon-Mobil Foundation Stuart P. Feld Stephen Fess Jerald D. Fessenden Professor Lawrence S. Finkelstein The Avery and Janet Fisher Foundation Frances T. Fisher Debra Force Daniel Fraad Julian Ganz John Garzoli Fred Geller Electrical, Inc. *The Georgetown Group, Inc. Susan A. Gitelson Howard Godel *Golden Family Fund John J. Goodman Lynne Gordon Mary B. Greene The Greenwich Collection Ltd. Grubb & Ellis Henry Grunwald Aaron Gural Jeffrey R. Gural Dr. Mary-Jo Haronian Don and Marilyn Hewitt Joanne Hickey Frederick Hill Dr. Lyn S. Hill HOK, Inc. H. Earl Hoover Raymond J. Horowitz The Hospital for Special Surgery Mr. and Mrs. John K. Howat Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Hyman, Jr. Mark Jaccom William Jacobi The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dudley D. Johnson William A. Karges Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Hans J. Kende KMZ Rosenman Ivor Kraft John M. Lane Herbert H. Lehman College - CUNY Mr. and Mrs. Meredith J. Long Joseph J. Lyons Dr. Zenowij Majuk The Malkin Fund Inc. Lenard Mandel Maria G. Matisseİ Joan McCarthy McCune Foundation Celia B. McGee Dr. Binita Mehta and Dr. George McClintock, III Professor Rolf Meyersohn Alan B. & Barbara Mirken Foundation Dr. Deborah Nelson New Amsterdam Entertainment, Inc. John C. Newington The North Point Gallery Constance Old Otis Elevator Co. P.J. Mechanical Corp. Hanna Pakula Mr. and Mrs. Frederic S. Papert The Park Foundation David Scott Parker Peek Family Foundation Inc. Ph.D. Alumni Association of CUNY Physicians Health Services of NY, Inc. Queens College Foundation, Inc. Quinlan & Field, Inc. Random House, Inc. Martin Tackel & Abbe Raven Family Fund The Reed Foundation, Inc. Research Foundation - CUNY Professor David Rindskopf Marguerite Riordan Professor Vera Mowry Roberts David Rockefeller Professor Rose K. Rose Samuel Rosenberg Gerald Rosenfeld Professor Frank Rosengarten Dr. Margrit W. Rustow Schering-Plough Corporation Schindler Elevator Corporation *Marc V. Schnur Ira Schuman Dr. Daniel Shapiro Nina Shapiro William A. Slater Sotheby's, Inc. Spectacolor Communications, Inc. Ralph Spencer Sprint Recycling Inc. The Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund *Anne & Jacob Starr Foundation Dr. Abby Stein The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust John H. Surovek Hollis Taggart Galleries, Inc. Richard Tesser Dr. Judith Tick Professor Carol Kehr Tittle Barbara and Donald Tober Foundation Dr. Stephen J. Tricamo U.S. Trust Company of New York United Way of New York City Caroline Urvater William Vareika Wachovia Otto and Fran Walter Foundation Dr. Bruce E. Weber White & Case Wien & Malkin L.L.P. Barrie Wigmore D/B/A Winick Realty Group The Winkler Family Foundation Wolfensohn Family Foundation Migs Woodside Ellen F. Wouters Yale University Zeitz Foundation *Gifts secured with Trustee assistance **Represents full amount of pledge made prior to 1/1/01 İDeceased |
Stewart Leaves Bequest to Graduate Center
William A. Stewart, a groundbreaking linguist who was on the faculty of The Graduate Center for more than 25 years, died on March 25. Stewart is best known for his study of Creole languages that result from contact between two different languages. He was the first linguist to prove that African Americans who spoke nonstandard English were in fact speaking the remnants of a Creole formed from contact between the languages of African slaves and English settlers‹essentially a separate language. His work led to an understanding of how speakers of this language can have particular difficulties learning standard English in the classroom.
Stewart also left another important legacy besides his work as a linguist: he made provisions in his estate plans to support the Graduate Center in his will. Stewart provided for generous gifts totaling over $100,000 to the President's Millennial Fund, the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, and the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, supporting the institutions and programs he cared passionately about during his lifetime.
If you are interested in learning how to follow Stewart's example by making a gift to The Graduate Center in your will, please contact the development office at 1-212-817-7132 or email.
Rose Kfar Rose Scholarship
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| Rose circa 1946, in Poland. |
Such gifts from Graduate Center alumni are crucial to the success of the current $30 million campaign. A scholarship gift like Professor Rose's is a great way to support a particular Ph.D. program and help current students to reach their goals and enter their chosen fields.
Professor Gerald Koeppl, executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, will present the first of the scholarships at the program's meeting on January 6, 2003, to Ms. Yi He. (Earlier this year, Ms. He was also selected by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemistry Society as a winner of a 2002 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry.) Ms. He, who entered the program in fall 2000, was advanced to candidacy for the degree in just three semesters. She is co-mentored by Professor David Locke of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Queens College and Professor Yan Zheng of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Queens College.
Rose Kfar Rose survived the Holocaust as a girl in Poland, although her entire family was killed. During the Nazi occupation, when Poles were permitted only to attend elementary school, she participated in "underground and clandestine" courses. In January 1945, after the liberation by the Soviet army, Rose completed an examination covering all of high school, or Gymnazium, and started attending a special program of accelerated Lyceum (secondary school) studies for adults in mathematics and the physical sciences. She completed the two-year course in little over one year.
Rose attended Jagiellonian University in Krakow until she left Poland in June 1946. Between September 1946 and January 1948, she lived in Cuba where she attended the American Academy of Commerce, improving her English skills. On her arrival in New York in January 1948, she spoke eight languages and knew stenography, typing, and other useful business skills. Rose received her B.A. in chemistry from Hunter College in 1950, an M.S. in organic chemistry from Purdue University in 1951, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from The Graduate Center in 1976. She taught in the Department of Physical Sciences at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, from 1967 to 1996.
Foundation Supports Women Doctoral Students
The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, a non-sectarian organization, has been a strong supporter of women scholars at The Graduate Center since 1998, when its trustees awarded the first grant for dissertation fellowships in the humanities. Fellowship recipients must be female, demonstrate financial need, be working on a dissertation in the humanities, and be a permanent resident of New York City or live within a 50-mile radius.
The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women fellowship provides students with the concentrated block of time needed to research and write the first draft of their dissertations. This Œgift of time' makes it possible for the students to move more expeditiously toward completing their dissertations and beginning their careers.
Since 1998, twenty Graduate Center students have been awarded Jewish Foundation for Education of Women dissertation fellowships, totaling $335,000. Several recent recipients are now working in academia, teaching at such institutions as Bard College, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, and Hunter College. Others are preparing to defend their dissertations and receive their Ph.D.'s.
This year's fellowship recipients come from the doctoral programs in music, history, philosophy, English, and art history. Upon accepting the fellowship, one student wrote, "It is really wonderful to be part of a community that supports women's scholarship and I feel extremely lucky to have the foundation not just as a benefactor, but also as an audience for my work."
The foundation also supports students at other campuses of the City University of New York, through a scholarship program at Hunter College School of Social Work, an internship program for undergraduates at Brooklyn and Baruch Colleges, and the Teaching Opportunity Program for students working toward a master's degree in education.
The Graduate Center thanks the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women and its president, Jean Bronstein, for this opportunity to help female scholars complete their dissertation research and writing in a timely way, accelerating their entry into careers in the humanities. In this way, the foundation plays an important role in the education of women doctoral students.
Seats Now Available -- for Dedication
Dedicating a seat in the Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall or Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium is a unique way to participate personally in The Graduate Center's history and future while providing vital support for The Graduate Center's most pressing needs. A seat dedication is a perfect way to honor a loved one, celebrate a birthday, or mark an anniversary. It is an unforgettable and enduring gift that can be named for the donor or a family member, colleague, friend, or company.
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In honor of this generous contribution, a plaque with the name of the donor, or a dedication, will be attached permanently to the back of a seat in the Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall or in the Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium. All gifts go into the President's Millennial Fund in support of The Graduate Center. Dedicating a seat for $5,000 is fully tax-deductible and payable over a period of one to five years. To reserve your seat, please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at 1-212-817-7130 or e-mail us at develop@gc.cuny.edu.
Contributions like these help The Graduate Center reach its financial goals and play and important role in educating successive generations of doctoral students to become the scholars and experts needed by our society.
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