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Bloomberg Gift Will Enhance Other Gifts
for Financial Aid "When you help excellent students who need financial aid come to Hopkins, you are improving the world. Take it from me, Hopkins students are a wonderful investment." Michael Bloomberg, Engr '64, is eloquent on the need for increased student aid at Hopkins. To show his commitment, Mr. Bloomberg, chairman of the Board of Trustees, raised his pledge to the Johns Hopkins Initiative campaign to a total of $100 million, including $30 million for scholarships and fellowships throughout the divisions. A large portion of the $30 million will go to work this fall for freshman entering the Whiting School of Engineering and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (see story, page 50). But through the Bloomberg Challenge, within each of the University's divisions Mr. Bloomberg's funds are being used to add to the value of commitments for student aid endowment from other alumni and friends. The Bloomberg Challenge may immediately activate gifts and pledges for endowed undergraduate scholarships in four divisions. The Challenge provides an immediate scholarship award equivalent to the annual income the endowed fund eventually will generate (i.e., after it is fully funded and has been invested for a year). Generally, an annual scholarship award equals 5% of the endowed fund's principal. Gifts or pledges for graduate-level scholarships and fellowships may qualify for a direct match from Bloomberg Challenge Funds, generally 50% or 100% of the donor's commitment. For further information, call your divisional development office or 410-516-6321.
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Host Family Program Ashley Bourland, a freshman engineering student from Massachusetts, is made welcome in Baltimore by her host family, Clarke Tankersley, Engr '57, and his wife, Chris. Funded through Alumni Association dues and open to students in all divisions, the program is rewarding for students and hosts alike. But host families are needed, since "there aren't enough of them to meet the demand from students," according to Marguerite Ingalls Jones, coordinator of the program. To participate, call 410-516-0363.
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Record Watch The Homewood Class of 1949 has set a record-breaking goal of $2 million for its reunion gift as it gears up for its 50th reunion in April. The fund is earmarked for undergraduate scholarships in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering. More than $1.1 million had been raised as of last fall.
Web Services
Access the JHU alumni web pages at
http://www.jhu.edu/~alumni to find links that will provide
information about the following:
1999 Reunions and Homecomings
The 1999 undergraduate reunion classes (class years ending in "4"
and "9") from the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering
will be celebrating their reunions over one Homecoming weekend
next spring. This is a change from the past five years when
reunion classes have returned to Homewood over two separate
weekends.
At the School of Public Health, individual departments are
holding alumni celebrations throughout the academic year.
Divisions holding reunion or Homecoming events in 1999 are as
follows:
Homewood Schools--Arts & Sciences and Engineering: April
22-25
Medicine--Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association
Biennial Meeting: June 10-12
Public Health--W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology Naming Ceremony and MMI Alumni Cele-
bration: April 9-10
Continuing Studies--April 22-25
Nursing--June 4-5
SAIS, Bologna--May 7-9
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