Funding the Vision Highlights for March 2007

							Funding the Vision Highlights for March 2007
A Friend Leaves a Legacy: CC receives notice of $2 million bequest
CC has received notice of a bequest to be received this year and expected to be
about $2 million. This Legacy was envisioned by Virginia Darnes Yates, a friend
of the college who passed away in February in Prairie Village, Kansas, at the age
of 89. Eighty percent of the bequest will go toward the Darnes Scholarship and
will qualify for a Priddy match. The remaining 20 percent will go toward an
endowment for public lectures and performances.


Six New Scholarships Celebrated at Annual Dinner
At this year's scholarship dinner, the college announced six new scholarships
totaling $76,000 in annual financial aid awards. At the dinner:
       Abby Balfany, widow of Gabe Pando '92, shared the news that the Pando
       Scholarship Fund had surpassed the $500,000 mark in endowed market
       value. The fund allows four Hispanic students annually -- one in each
       class -- to attend CC.
       Joe Sherrill of the Robert and Ruby Priddy Charitable Trust bid farewell to
       the inaugural class of CC Scholars funded by the Trust.
       More than 250 people attended. Hester-Jane Cogswell '35, namesake of
       the Hester-Jane Butcher Scholarship that was established at the college
       by Eugene Shove, was one of several older alumni in attendance.

Disability Services Program Receives Inaugural Gift
Robert and Nancy Isham P ’07, ’09 of Chicago made a pledge of $50,000 toward
CC’s Disability Services Program. The funds will go toward a variety of services
and resources to help foster intellectual growth and engagement for students
with a broad range of abilities, disabilities, reading levels, learning styles, native
languages, cultures, and other characteristics.



Students Return from First "Selig Course Abroad"
Sociology Assistant Professor Wade Roberts and eight students in his Block 5
class, "Development and Underdevelopment in Africa," have returned from Sierra
Leone. One of the course highlights was a discussion with U.S. Ambassador
Peter Chaveas about the obstacles to political development, the politics of
international aid, and other African issues. The course is the first to be funded
through the Selig Fund for Global Study.
Cornerstone Arts Center update
Construction is picking up as spring weather comes to Colorado Springs. Check
out the angled walls of the theater, one of seven areas going up, using CC's Web
cam,
http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/welcome/webcam/constructioncam.asp. Better
yet, come to campus and see the site for yourself! To date, the college has
received more than $10 million in gifts, pledges, deferred gifts, gifts-in-kind for
the $30 million building project.