Bruce '60 and Margo Walsh, of Longmont, Colo., have established the Maurice C. Walsh Memorial Scholarship and the Ruth E. Walsh Memorial
Scholarship in memory of Bruce's parents.
The scholarships are being endowed separately with appreciated stock gifts of approximately $200,000 each to benefit electrical engineering or computer systems engineering students. “My goal is to commemorate my parents and
pay back Union for the scholarship I received as a student,” Walsh said.
Other recent gifts, grants and bequests include:
$300,000 from the estate of Neil B. Reynolds '24, to benefit Schaffer Library;
A total of $132,000 in unrestricted bequests from the estates of Anne Brown, Alice Naylon, and James Hume '31;
More than $100,000 from a life insurance policy on Arthur M. Vash '51, to be used toward the Kresge challenge for scientific equipment and the Schaffer Library technology endowment;
$85,000 in gifts to plans that will provide income to donors Lyall Dean '43 and August E. Cerrito '46, then distribute principal to Union;
For Schaffer Library, gifts from Richard A. Steinwurtzel '72, $50,000; Donald Sirkin '49, $25,000, including matching gifts from his company, Contractors Bonding & Insurance of Seattle; Wallace A. Graham, a trustee, $12,500, including matching gifts from IBM; Nicholas F. Coward '76, $10,000; Sherwood B. Lee '65, $10,000; and Roger P. Penny '58, $10,000;
The Louis D. Miltimore 329 Memorial Scholarship of more than $25,000 was created by the family and friends, including a major gift from Albert H.
Gordon. Mr. Miltimore was a trustee of the College from 1953 until his death on Feb. 2.
Michael J. Fuchs '67 contributed two contemporary oil paintings valued at more than $24,000;
Donald S. MacNaughton, LL.D. '74, established a fund through a gift of $10,000 to encourage support of a scholarship in memory of Sigmund Makofski '26;
Professor Carl George and his wife, Gail, contributed a collection of books and paintings to the Schaffer Library Archives;
George V. Exner '52 assigned a life insurance policy to the College to establish a scholarship in memory of his son, Geoffrey V. Exner;
Charles D. Lothridge '44 made a gift to fund a half-time dance faculty position in the Performing Arts Department.