Schaffer Library stands not just at the geographical, but at the intellectual heart of the College. The $17 million renovation and expansion of Schaffer Library will transform a facility constructed 35 years ago, well before the advent of “smart buildings” wired and equipped for data transmission and worldwide communication links, from a building that simply can't change with the times to one that can.
Schaffer Library is now the priority capital construction project on the Bicentennial Campaign agenda. Helping out is the National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded Union a $575,000 challenge grant for the library. All gifts received before July 31, 1998, will qualify for NEH matching funds on a 1:4 basis ($1 NEH funding for every $4 contributed).
During the past year the total raised for the library renovation project crossed the $6 million mark (and in the early months of the 1995-96 academic year the total is nearing $8 million). Union extends a heartfelt thanks to these lead donors:
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- William J. Perlstein '71
- Philip R. Beuth '54
- Robert J. Pletman '50
- Nicholas F Coward '76
- Ruth Putman
Robert F. Cummings, Jr. '71 - James M. Ramich '67
- Henry B. duPont IV '90
- Michael S. Rapaport '59
- Jonas Fleminberg '31
- Norton & Sue Reamer '58
- Raymond V. Gilmartin '63
- Neil B. Reynolds 24
- Esther M. Glen Katherine Rozendaal '72H
- John E. Mann '43
- Elizabeth Rue
Duncan S. McNab '35 - Elmer G. St. John '29
- Martin A. Meyer '55
- The Henry Schaffer Foundation
- John H. Minehan '68
- Harrison Todd