The College has received a $50,000 grant from the Starr Foundation to support engineering students studying on exchanges and terms abroad.
Because of the tight schedules of their engineering courses, few of Union's engineering students have been able to take advantage of the College's eighteen programs of study abroad. One important goal of the new engineering curriculum being developed is to give each student the opportunity and the means to take advantage of the study abroad programs. The Starr Foundation grant will help provide the means.
Other recent gifts, grants, and bequests include:
A gift of $25,000 from Gerald Barandes '54, Dr. Martin Barandes '59, Robert Barandes '69, and friends of the Barandes family to establish the Max and Helen Barandes Endowed Scholarship.
More than $2,540,000 was received in distributions from trusts and estates. These include distributions from the estates of Margaret MacGregor Dyson, David Post, Claudia Umansky, Donald Dennis '78, the Franklyn Millham '32 Trust, and the Madhu Gokhale '27 Trust.
Four individuals made gifts totaling $20,846 for life income arrangements. Gifts from J. Dawson Van Eps '28 and William Bachtel '70 were for the pooled life income funds. Gifts from Gary Price '45 and William Wheeler '36 were for the charitable gift annuity program.