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Creating Futures
A Magazine Celebrating Philanthropy at the University of Colorado | SPRING 2012
All Paths Lead
to Herbst
In this issue
UCCS health sciences
receive a spark
Can climbing Kilimanjaro
make a teacher great?
Med students rally
to launch scholarship effort
Event photos,
our new CEO, and more
Humanities for Engineers
program one of many stamps
these donors have left on CU
CLANCY AND LINDA HERBST
a note
from the editor
Donors provide
a margin
of excellence
–once again
Did you know?
CU distributed $117
million in financial
aid last year to its
students.
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Did donors fuel the first Pac-12 title for the CU men’s basketball
team, and the team’s first NCAA tournament win in 15 years?
Perhaps.
Dono
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a note from the editor Donors provide a margin
contents 24 26 18 34
From left: Campus campaign chairs Jeannie and Jac
Rick Lawrence
philanthropy in brief CU CANCER CENTER Fro
LEEDS SCHOLARSHIPS Cookies for CU At the end o
Donors Make a Difference,
All Around CU! A retiring faculty couple wants
STRETCHING THE FIELD In myriad disciplines, the H
gifts of impact “If only they took Herbst, they
Leland Giovannelli (above), who has taught Herbst
will power PLANNED GIFTS THAT LEAVE A DISTINCTIV
14 | Creating Futures Spring 2012
gifts of impact Motivated to get things done
CU Denver College of Nursing students and faculty
filling a gap GIFTS THAT MEET DISTINCT NEEDS
trend lines INNOVATIVE IDEAS THAT SPARK PHILANTH
trend lines ‘Breaking the nerd loop’ Donors help
out and about A Jan. 31 event honored donors to t
out and about
out and about The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodit
out and about
questions for… Sarah Dodd Fourth-year School
TO SUPPORT Student Organiz
form meets function Longmont couple finds harmony
gifts of impact D don (’62) and maria johns
The Johnsons currently support 27 scholars in the
in their words BENEFICIARIES OF DONOR GENEROSITY
healthW To Your Margot Lane
gifts of impact University of Colorado Colorado
Anchoring the Lane Center will be a clinical hub
pearls of CU SUPPORTING CU FOR MORE THAN 30 YEAR
in memory “…you
in memory John M. Stewart (1924-2011) Former
news briefs FROM CU AND THE CU FOUNDATION Caro
“Wayne came in and built the confidence of people
photo fini sh musi other In 2
When Scottish music-shop proprietor Eric Hamilton
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