Initiative Cup Passes
from MSEL to SAIS
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The Johns Hopkins Initiative Cup, presented to each division
as it reaches its initial campaign goal, has been passed from the
Milton S. Eisenhower Library to the Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies.
The ceremony took place at the University Board of Trustees
meeting on May 5, where it was announced that SAIS (with gifts
and pledges of just over $35 million), its Bologna Center ($5.3
million), and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center ($4.7 million) had all
passed their initial campaign goals.
Accepting the Initiative Cup were SAIS Dean Paul Wolfowitz;
trustee Naneen Neubohn, chair of the Bologna Center Advisory
Council; and SAIS development director Lea Kenig.
As of April 30, the Johns Hopkins
Initiative had raised
$732.7 million, or 81% of its overall goal. Gifts and pledges
for endowment and facilities stood at $448.6 million, or 85% of
the goal for these priorities.
Recent leadership gifts include the following:
From Mark Rubenstein, Engr '62, University trustee and
chairman of the National Advisory Council for the Whiting School
of Engineering, and his wife, Barbara, an initial campaign
commitment of $1 million to the Whiting School endowment;
From the William H. Gates Foundation, $2.25 million to
the
School of Public Health to expand computer-based distance
learning and other efforts to assist family planning in
developing nations;
From Constance R. Caplan, A&S M.A. '78, trustee of the
University and of Johns Hopkins Medicine, $600,000 to the Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences to support the planned student arts
center at Homewood, and $400,000 for the Eisenhower Library's
Electronic Resources Center;
From the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation,
$1.7
million toward the new building at the School of Nursing;
From Fred Sanderson, professorial lecturer at SAIS for
more than 20 years, and his wife, Elisabeth, a commitment
of more
than $2 million to endow the Sanderson Distinguished
Professorship in International Economics at SAIS;
From Thomas H. Maren, Med '51, $2 million to endow the
E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Distinguished Professorship in
Pharmacology at the School of Medicine;
From Clyde, SCS '56 and '65, and Ruth Williams, an
exceptionally generous bequest intention to establish the Clyde
F. and Ruth E. Williams Endowed Scholarship Fund at the School of
Continuing Studies;
From the estate of the late Dorothy Scott Bendann
Leitch, $830,000 to establish a junior faculty chair in
classical music and an endowed scholarship in violin at the
Peabody Conservatory.
For information on giving through the Johns Hopkins
Initiative, call Robert R. Lindgren, vice president for
development and alumni relations, at 410-516-8631.
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