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13-August-1999 
99258 
 
    College News 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
DANVILLE, Ky. - For the third time in four years, Centre College has been 
honored for havingan outstanding fund-raising program. The Council for the 
Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has announced that Centre is 
one of 19 private colleges in the United States chosen for a 1999 Circle of 
Excellence Award. Centre received the same award in 1996 and 1997. 
 
    This year's recipients included Harvard, Princeton, Notre Dame and 
Amherst - and one other Kentucky institution, Bellarmine College in 
Louisville. 
 
    During fiscal 1997-98, Centre received $9.2 million in private gifts 
and grants, an increase of about $150,000 over the previous year. Centre 
holds the all-time records for alumni participation (more than 75 percent) 
and for the number of consecutive years (12) of national leadership in 
annual giving percentage. 
 
 
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Do you know someone who attended Florida 
Presbyterian College between September 1960 and June 1963? 
 
    If so, Dick Roth of the class of 1964 and a group of alumni from that 
era want their names, no matter how long or short their stay might have 
been at Florida Presbyterian, which changed its name to Eckerd College in 
1972. They'd like to invite every student who enrolled during the school's 
first three years to a reunion in the year 2000. 
 
    Roth asks that readers of "News Briefs" urge friends who attended 
Florida Presbyterian College during that time to contact him at P.O. Box 
611, West Point, CA., 95255; phone: (209)293-4269 or 
e-mail:dickroth@volcano.net or contact the college's Office of Alumni & 
Parent Relations at 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711; 
phone:(800)456-9009 ext. 8219 or e-mail:tiddlercrab@eckerd.edu. 
 
 
SALT LAKE CITY - Westminster College will greet the new millennium with a 
master plan of new construction and facility upgrades intended to better 
equip graduates for a changing workplace in a changing world. 
 
    "The 10-year plan is designed to meet the future needs of faculty and 
students while benefitting the surrounding community," Westminster 
President Peggy A. Stock said last month as she unveiled the plan. 
 
            The improvements are expected to cost between $45 million and 
$50 million. They are to include new buildings, extensions of existing 
buildings, refurbished facilities and improved allocation of space. The 
major building projects include a health, wellness and athletic center; a 
science and technology center; additional residence halls; an extension to 
the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business; an extension to the Jewett 
Center for Performing Arts; a playing field; and additional parking. 
 
 
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Stillman College recently received $100,000 from The 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York to develop a model alumni-giving 
program. 
 
    The grant would support a pilot project to identify effective ways of 
strengthening the alumni-giving base and test those strategies for 
cost-effectiveness and resource growth. The project will incorporate new 
technology, marketing strategies and networking into a control research 
design. The idea is to create a model for giving that increases resources 
for historically black, liberal arts colleges, according to Ernest 
McNealey, Stillman's president. 
 
    "We believe that there are two areas of alumni solicitation that are 
perpetually inadequate at historically black colleges and universities: 
tracking to maintain strong databases, and salient references that may 
strengthen (giving) connections," McNealey said. "In this pilot project we 
would employ strategies we believe might address these inadequacies." 

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