Foundation

2008-2009 Foundation year in review: highlights

• The WIU-Quad Cities campus received $1 million ($500,000 each) from the John Deere Foundation and the Moline Foundation to support the new engineering program. The gifts provide lease space and equipment.

• Sisters and 1970 graduates Laura and Linda Janus both committed their estates, each valued at $1 million, to WIU. Laura’s gift will fund accountancy scholarships and Linda’s will support scholarships in history.

• 1949 music graduate Donald Bouseman made a $1 million planned gift to support scholarships in the School of Music.

• The AT&T Aspire Program invested nearly $375,000 into the Rock Island (IL) High School PACERS (Positive Achievement and Creativity Equals Righteous Success) —an intensive mentoring, academic and volunteer-based program developed through school and community efforts and the WIU Counselor Education Department.

• Professors emeriti and longtime advocates of WIU, Bea and Jim Wehrly, each made separate gifts to ease the financial burden of students in this difficult economy. Jim enhanced the Jim & Bea Wehrly scholarship fund (endowed in 1991) by $50,000 to fund another annual scholarship, and Bea donated $20,000 to the Scholarship Office to be used for short-term student loans.

• Mary Lou Petersen, retired junior high biology teacher from Bettendorf, IA, designated a planned gift of $50,000 to support the Petersen Ornithological Collection. The collection was to the WIU Libraries in 1999 by Mary Lou and her late husband, Peter.

• Sodexo Campus Services committed $50,000 towards endowing the College Student Personnel/Student Services annual Summer Institute.

• Lowell and Lois Lueck ‘72 established a scholarship for non-traditional students in teacher education with a $20,000 base gift supplemented by $1,000 annual gifts.

• Growmark Foundation funded a third annual $1,000 scholarship in agriculture and donated $5,000 to the agriculture department.

 

 

 

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