Posted on Jul 1, 1995

The College received a
$271,875 gift from Philip R. Beuth '54 for the Schaffer Library renovation and expansion project.

Beuth's gift enables the
College to claim-ahead of schedule-the first installment of a $575,000 challenge grant for the library project from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Under the terms of the NEH Challenge, which runs until July, 1998, Union must match federal funding with private gifts at a four-to-one ratio.

Additional commitments received for the renovation and expansion of Schaffer Library include $10,000 from James M. Ramich '67 and $5,000 from Orazio Ottaviano '47. As of press time, commitments to Schaffer Library total just over $5 million.

Other recent gifts, grants and bequests include:

-The Roland D. Ciaranello '65, M.D., scholarship endowment was created with gifts from Roland and Carmella Ciaranello in memory their son, Roland '65. The scholarship will assist premedical students from Schenectady County.

-Three new endowed scholarships have been created by the estate of Donald E. Nitchman '33 ($50,027), Lewis W. Hallenbeck '40 in memory of J. Potter Hallenbeck '10 ($25,000), and E. Glen Wells '27 ($25,000).

-Additions to existing scholarship endowments were received from Michael R Cappiello '39 ($50,000), Patricia and Edward W. Carsky '50 ($11,594), former Dean of Engineering Lawrence J. Hollander ($10,000), and Trustee Stephen J. Ciesinski '70 ($9,151).

-More than $80,000 was received in distributions from trusts and estates. These include distributions from the trusts of Madhu Gokale '27, Codman Hislop '31, Franklyn Millham '32, and Marshall W. Quandt '33.

-Four individuals made gifts totalling more than $60,000 for life income arrangements. Gifts from William L. Johnson '40 and Edwin D. Knight '45 were for the charitable gift annuity program. Gifts from J. Dawson Van Eps '28 and the estate of George F. Cox '26 were for the pooled life income fund.

The Dow Chemical Corporation continued its support of the Chemistry Department with a $10,500 gift. Over the past decade Dow has given $136,500 to Union to support chemistry, primarily by providing scholarships and summer research support for chemistry majors.

The Stillman Prize to encourage outstanding teaching is an endowed prize created by gifts from David I. Stillman '72, Trustee Abbott L. Stillman '69, and Allan Stillman. An initial gift of $25,000 was made in honor of Abraham Stillman, father of Allan and grandfather of David and Abbott.