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HIGHLIGHTS

Arthur L. Johnson, Vice President University Relations

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Recent Alumni Events/Activities

• Thirty-three alumni and friends participating in the Alumni Association-sponsored tour to Costa Rica attended a bon voyage party and tour orientation at Alumni House on February 3. The ten-day tour departed February 14.

• The Alumni Association held a Sunday Jazz Brunch at Plum Hollow Country Club in Southfield on February 6 for 50 alumni and guests. President Adamany was the featured speaker, and alumnus Ken Wlosinski provided music.

• The Alumni Association offered a winter weekend at Garland Resort in Lewiston, Michigan, February 11 through February 13 for 15 alumni and friends.

• Women of Wayne Central Region and the Organization of Black Alumni co­sponsored a theatre night on February 17 for nearly 160 alumni and friends at the Detroit Repertory Theatre in celebration of Black History Month .

• The School of Social Work Alumni Association awards luncheon was held February 18. A Citizen of the Year Award was given to Mangedwa Nyathi, Assistant Pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and Executive Director of AGAPE House. Michigan State Representative Sharon Gire was honored as the "Alum of the Year". Almost 100 alumni and friends attended in McGregor Memorial Conference Center.

• The Florida East Coast Alumni Club sponsored a brunch for approximately 70 people at the Boca Grove Plantation in Boca Raton on February 19, with President Adamany as featured speaker.

• On February 20, President Adamany spoke to approximately 70 people at the Florida Gulf Coast Alumni Club brunch at the Hyatt in Sarasota.

• The Alumni Association's "Urban Perspectives" lecture series featured Wayne County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kym Worthy on February 23. A capacity crowd of over 150 alumni and friends attended in Alumni House .

BOARD OF GOVERNORS AGENDA MARCH 11, 1994

• The School of Medicine's annual Heritage Society Recognition Dinner was held on February 26 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Members of the Heritage Society include alumni, friends, corporations and foundations who contribute $1,000 or more per year to the School of Medicine.

• Alumni clubs in Phoenix, Sun City and Tucson, Arizona sponsored events on March 4, 5 and 6 with President Adamany as the featured speaker.

Upcoming Events/ Activities

• Nine alumni and friends will participate in the Association-sponsored tour to Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic, March 11 through March 18. The same week, ten alumni and friends will take an Association-sponsored Eastern Caribbean Cruise aboard the Star Princess.

• On March 16, the Florida East Coast Alumni Club will attend a Detroit Tigers/New York Yankees spring training game in Ft. Lauderdale.

• The School of Medicine will host an Alumni Association 500 Club Reception at the Skyline Club in Southfield on Saturday, March 19.

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On March 19, Women of Wayne Grosse Pointe Chapter will sponsor a Spring fashion show and brunch at the Somerset Collection.

The School of Medicine Alumni Association will hold its Spring Annual Fund Telefund on March 29-31.

• The Alumni Association will conduct a preview of Association-sponsored tours for summer 1994 on March 30 at the Alumni House.

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Breakdown of McGregor Memorial Conference Center Events -- Fiscal Year Comparison -January 1993 and January 1994

YTD 1//93 1/94 FY93

EVENTS: Classes 11 8 45 Conferences 4 4 29 Lectures 2 5 13 Meetings 82 72 362 Performances 5 8 57 Seminars 12 21 58 Special Events 11 5 81

Total Events 127 123 645

Food Service Functions 1

Breakfasts 17 23 67 Luncheons 23 30 116 Dinners/Banquets 5 5 30 Receptions 9 5 48 Catered Events -

Off Premise 34 30 144

Total Food Service 88 93 405

1 Food service functions are also frequently part of event functions .

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YTD FY94

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Media Relations Report

• International news media attention was focused in mid-February on the School of Medicine. Researchers led by Professor Ruben Quintero, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, developed a pioneering procedure to operate on a fetus without opening the mother's abdomen and uterus. Among those reporting the breakthrough were the New England Journal of Medicine, NBC Television News, syndicated radio commentator Paul Harvey, the Medical Tribune News Service, Associated Press and all Detroit area print and electronic news media.

• A number of news media representatives were among invited guests attending a January post-holiday party in President David Adamany's apartment. Among them were managers, editors and reporters from the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Macomb Daily, Michigan Chronicle, Grain's Detroit Business, Detroit Monthly, WXYZ-TV 7 and WJLB radio.

• Governor John Engler's January 22 visit to the University Public School and signing of the state's charter school legislation generated stories in news media across Michigan, in addition to local coverage.

• The January 23 Detroit Free Press Magazine profiled Mildred Jeffrey, Board of Governors member emerita, in a long and laudatory cover story.

• Both major Detroit dailies carried stories in early February reporting WDET radio programming changes intended to improve programming yet cut costs by an estimated $200,000.

• William Hill, Confidential Assistant to the Provost and a doctoral student, was interviewed for a January 30 Detroit News story about studies by the American Council on Education and the Mortenson Report on Postsecondary Opportunity showing graduate level black enrollment is declining nationwide. Hill said causes might include inadequate financial and academic support, as well as family educational traditions: "(Getting a higher degree) was just something expected by my family. But that may not be the case with other blacks. So universities should compensate."

• Robert Kahle, Co-Director of the Urban Safety Program of the Center for Urban Studies, said in a January 30 Detroit News story examining possible reasons for soaring handgun sales that neither fear of crime nor gun-control legislation has much to do with gun sales. "For every study that shows fear of crime or disorder is a factor in protective gun ownership, I can show you another which says otherwise," said Kahle, who has been working on a doctoral thesis on the subject for two years.

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• Desiree Cooper, Research Assistant in the Urban Safety Program of the Center for Urban Studies, was interviewed January 21 in a WXYZ-TV 7 "Live at 5" segment about racial insensitivity among children and teens.

• Several Detroit area news media carried reports in January about Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer's selection of Douglas Fraser, University Professor of Labor Studies, to lead city efforts to gain concessions from municipal unions, and the appointment of Larry Ledebur, Center for Urban Studies Director, to the Detroit Master Plan Task Force.

• Professor Robert Swartz, Geography and Urban Planning, wrote an op-ed article for the January 30 Detroit Free Press describing an unintentional side effect of the federal Superfund legislation of the 1980s: avoidance by businesses and banks of urban properties suspected of being contaminated, since cleanup can cost millions. That exacerbates suburban expansion on "clean" sites and hinders urban economic redevelopment, he explains.

• President David Adamany was a guest on "Michigan at Risk," a program that aired simultaneously February 16 on WTVS-TV 56 and other public television stations in Michigan, discussing the future of higher education with host Donovan Reynolds. Reynolds, who also is manager of Michigan Public Radio, used out-takes of the audio for dissemination to Michigan's public radio stations as well.

• Management Professor Richard Osborn was interviewed February 15 by Jennifer Moore for a WDIV-TV 4 business report that evening on various facets of trade between Japan and the United States.

• Social Work Professor Creigs Beverly discussed race relations and racial equality with host Amyre Makupson on "Straight Talk," a half-hour show on WKBD-TV 50 that was taped February 11 for airing February 12.

• Kurt Metzger, Director of the Michigan Metropolitan Information Center in the Center for Urban Studies, was quoted in a February 8 Detroit News story about the reduced speed of Detroit's population decline: "I would like to think we've seen the loss bottom out and come to a halt. I tend to think this population loss is going to stabilize, that the city may indeed start to see some turnaround in the latter part of the decade."

• The February 8 Detroit Free Press carried a glowing review by theatre critic Lawrence DeVine of the Hilberry Theatre's production of "Much Ado About Nothing," in rotating repertory under guest director Scott Wentworth .

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WAYNE STATE FUND OFFICE PRIVATE GIFT AND GRANT REPORT ---------------------------------------------------~-

Dec. 1993 (1)

• RECEIPT TOTALS

Dec. 1993 FYTD 1994 FYTD 1993 FY 1993 ---------------- ---------------- --------------------------------

Business Administration $ 138,341.50 $ 202,865.98$ 95,589.18$ 416,207.35 Education (excl. H&PE) 145.,998.00 343,188.28 49,255.50 253,423.50 Engineering 157,516.86 271,958.36 258,902.83 1,150,913.31 Law 60,377.25 77,752.25 61,844.00 214,113.16 Liberal Arts, 105,082.00 134,541.00 155,580.00 333,177.93 Fine, ·Perf. & Comm. Arts 39,073.03 74,979.65 106,127.65 512,844.54 Medicine 1,536,527.05 3,043,518.53 * 1,787,364.69 7,811,699.41 Nursing 59,387.97 179,864.47 36,348.80 75,445.97 Pharmacy & Allied Health 30,673.00 75,702.14 63,488.39 185,611.84 Science 48,379.65 80,801.65 159,511.50 591,511.73 Social Work 9,873.66 24,794.15 35,262.00 394,259.60 Library 9,769.50 38,670.50 19,833.38 38,332.38 Merri 11 Palmer 4,190.00 20,055.00 70,219.94 407,644.82 Inst. of Gerontology 0.00 50.00 95,383.00 155,378.00 Inst. for Manufacturing 0.00 100,100.00 0.00 35,333.33 ~ealth & Physical Educ. 375·,oo 1,175.00 2,085.00 4,052.00 Lifelong Learning 4\368.68 5,443.68 3,667.00 57,227.00 Labor, Urban & Metro Aff 140,010.40 229,580.40 ~6,816.00 850,546.it Student Support Services 65,589.31 124,783.47 86,431.29 208,146, + Athletics** 22,325.88 45,078.88 24,228.48 94,240.1.,_ Administration 168.00 168.00 303.00 82,551.12 + Undes. Gifts to WSU(2)** 20,431.12 36,608.12 39,632.46 87,905.13 WDET 112,606.77 375,852.86 427,765.68 1,305,592.06 Other (3) 525,173.69 553,008.59 294,459.20 1,574,680.58

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NUMBER OF GIFTS 6220 16353 17452 45256 ------------------------ ---------------- ------------------------------------------------

1 Previous FY amounts adjusted to reflect current FY unit structure.·· 2 Office of the President 3 Amount reflects ·any college/department not listed 4 Includes all cash and stock received from individuals, corporations

and foundations as charitable contributions and as private grant support.

* Includes $962,567.00 from the Fund for Medical Research and Education (FMRE) previously reported through ORSPS.

** Departmental funds reported separately from the major unit. All amounts listed add up to the column total. ·

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Major Individual Gifts

• The Wayne State University School of Medicine has received a gift of $573,750 from Mr. and Mrs. T. Norris Hitchman to be divided equally between the Genevieve Hitchman Memorial Endowed Scholarship and the Lyle E. Heavner Endowed Memorial Scholarship.

• The Wayne State. University School of Medicine has received a gift of $10,000 from George Magill, M.D. to establish a named scholarship in the School.

• The University has received a gift of $10,000 from Irvin Swider to establish the Bob Brennan Endowed Scholarship, Department of Athletics, lntramurals and Recreation.

• The University has received a gift of $15,837.50 from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kalajian designated to the Manufacturing Engineering Facility, College of Engineering.

• The University has received an unrestricted gift of $10,000 from Ronald L. Piasecki designated to the Law School Fund.

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The University has received a gift of $10,000 from H. Barbara Jewett. The gift is to be divided equally between Occupational Therapy Research and Development and the Barbara Jewett Scholarship Fund .

The University has received a gift of $15,000 from Tigran Arrathoon. Mr . Arrathoon has designated the gift to the General Research and Development Fund in Computer Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering.

The University has received a gift of $9,500 from Dr. Paul C. Begeman designated to the Mechanical Engineering Sciences Research Fund, College of Engineering.

The University has received a gift of 300 shares of GTE Corporation C6mmon Stock valued at $11 , 100 from Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Zudick. The gift has been designated to the Leonard L. and Mary 8. Zudick Theatre Student Endowed Scholarship Fund, College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.

The University has received a gift of $15,000 from an anonymous donor designated to the College of Nursing to establish the Harriet H. Werley Endowed Faculty Research Award.

The University' has received a gift of $50,000 from Harry Malynowsky designated to the School of Business Administration to develop a program of teaching, curriculum, and workshops in Finance and Banking for the Department of Economics at Ivan Franko University in Lviv, Ukraine. In addition, Mr. Malynowsky

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is establishing an endowed scholarship to assist a Ukrainian student or visiting scholar to study at the Wayne State University School of Business Administration.

• The University has received a gift of $122,595.52 from Richard J. Barber designated to th~ Richard J. Barber Fund for Interdisciplinary Studies.

• The University has received a gift of 240 shares of Pfizer, Inc. Common stock valued at $15,585 from Austin A. Kanter. The gift is designated to the Austin and Harriet Kanter Endowed Scholarship to benefit students majoring in Marketing, School of Business Administration.

Corporate and Foundation Relations

• The Fund for Medical Research and Education has made six grants to the School of Medicine, totaling $397,403. These include: $187,658 for Public Service; $101,159 for Academic Support; $68,586 for General Research; $20,000 for Research in Obstetrics and _Gynecology; and two grants of $10,000 each for Radiation Oncology--Research and Development.

• The Skillman Foundation has made two recent grants totaling $263,000. These include: $150,000 to establish the Metropolitan Detroit Substance Abuse Information Center through the Addiction Research Institute (Eugene Schoener, M.D., is Principal Investigator); $113,000, representing the Foundation's final payment to support the Merrill-Palmer lnstitute's Infant Mental Health Program (Eli Saltz, Principal Investigator).

• Michigan Bell/Ameritech Corporation has paid the first installment of $200,000 of its $400,000 grant to support the telecommunications-based technology project at the University Public School. John Camp of Computing and Information Technology is the Principal Investigator.

• The AT&T Foundation has completed its grant of $400,000, with a payment of $125,000, to support the Teachers for Tomorrow project in the College of Education. Mark Trierweiler, local AT&T division manager for field public relations, facilitated Wayne State receiving this award.

• The Meyer and Anna Prentis Family Foundation and the Meyer and Anna Prentis­Morris-Wagner Support Foundation have each contributed $50,000 to support the Meyer and Anna Prentis Endowment Fund at the Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit.

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• The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation completes its current support of $100,000 for the Computer Conferencing Project in Computing and Information Technology with a payment of $50,000.

• The Hudson-Webber Foundation has continued its support of several University projects. These include: $81,000 for the Community Dispute Resolution Coordination Project, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (Frederic Pearson, Principal Investigator); $75,000, Southeast Michigan Business Assistance Consortium, Center for Urban Studies (Larry Ledebur, Principal Investigator); $25,000, Detroit Business Assistance Consortium,Center for Urban Studies (Gary Shields,. Principal Investigator); $25,000, Procurement-Technical Assistance Center, School of Business Administration (Raymond Genick, Principal Investigator).

• The Lilly Endowment continues its support of the. Catholic Church closing study in the College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs with a grant payment of $5o,oqo.

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The Ford Motor Company has made several new research awards, including $25,000, "Application of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectometry to the Characterization of Automotive Materials" (David Coleman, Principal Investigator); and $11,000, Mechanical Engineering Capstone Course--ME 450 (Mehmet Uras, Principal Investigator) .

The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program, Inc. (DAPCEP) has made two awards totalling 21,908 to support the DAPCEP program in the College of Engineering.

Kmart Corporation continues its support of Professor Patrick Kelly's research with a grant of $16,835. Professor Kelly is the Kmart Professor in Marketing.

BMS Consultants have made a gift of $15,518 to the College of Engineering to support Professor Melvin Shaw's research.

The General Motors Foundation has awarded a grant of $15,000 to the College of Engineering to support the G.M. Minority/Engineering Scholarship program.

SmithKline Beecham has made a grant of $13,534 to the continuing medical education program entitled "Update on Infectious Diseases."

Rodney C. Kropf of Orion Village, Inc. has made a gift of $10,000 to establish the Rodney G. Kropf Endowed Football Scholarship .

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• The De Seranno Educational Foundation has made an unrestricted grant of $10,000 to the School of Business Administration.

Planned Giving .

• The University has received an unrestricted gift of $27,275.84 from the Estate of Agnes Jahraus designated to the College of Nursing. This gift represents the University's full distributive share.

• The University has received a final distribution of $4,304.14 from the Harold and Nathalia Lautner Trust designated to the Pre-School Training Program at the Merrill-Palmer Institute for Family. The final bequest totals $8,304.14.

• The University has received a $5,383.20 quarterly distribution of book royalties from the Estate of Garnette Watters. The undesignated bequest presently totals $67,383.06.

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The University has received an additional distribution of $10,000 from the Estates of Hyman and Bertha Herman. The bequest is designated to the Bertha M. and Hyman Herman Memorial Fund (functioning as an endowment}, Wayne State University Press, for publications in Jewish music and art, Wayne State University Press. The two estates combined, presently total $58,800.

Th~ University has received an annual trust income distribution of $500 from the Joseph E. Beauchamp Charitable Trust designated to the Detroit Radio Information Service. The trust presently totals $8,250.

• The fourth quarterly mailing of the Financial Strategies Newsletter for estate planning professionals was mailed January 24 to 438 professionals. There were 1 O estate attorneys added to the mailing, who were identified through known bequests and contacts with the Office of Planned Giving related to estate planning.

• To date, the Office of Planned Giving has received 276 requests for additional information in response to the November 29 Financial Strategies Newsletter mailing to 34,261 constituents: alumni, retirees, faculty, administration, and Anthony Wayne Society, etc. The topic for this year's mailing was the 1993 Reconciliation Tax Act.

Development Events

• WDET radio hosted a "thank you" reception for their corporate underwriters at the Whitney on January 18.

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Anthony Wayne Society

To date this fiscal year, 15 individuals have been recognized in the Anthony Wayne Society, the University's highest giving club. The following are the 15 new individuals:

PLEDGING:

Paul C. Begeman

Paul - M.S. '70 & Ph.D. '77/Engineering

Drs. Brooks & Pamela Bock

Brooks - M.D. '69 President, Medical Center Emergency Services, P.C.

Pamela - B.S. '83/Lib. Arts M.D. '87

Dr. & Mrs. Fernando Diaz

Fernando - Physician, University Neurosurgery Associates and Chair., Neurosurgery, School of Medicine

Dixon & Carol Pucci Doll

Alan B. Gruskin, M.D.

Alan - Prof. and Chair., Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Pediatrician-in-Chief, Children's Hospital

AMOUNT DESIGNATION

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$10,000 Bioengineering Dept., College of Engineering

$10,000 To be designated annually, School of Medicine

$10,000 Faculty Scholars Endowment Fund, School of Medicine

$10,000 Italian Heritage Project, in memory of Dr. D.L. Pucci

$10,000 Endowment Fund, School of Medicine

Ors. James & Linda Hazlett $10,000 To be designated • annually, School James - Assoc. Professor, of Medicine

Anatomy, School of Medicine

Linda - Professor, Anatomy, School of Medicine

Chuan-pu Lee, Ph.D. $12,400 Faculty Scholars and Fellowship Endowment

Chuan-pu - Dist. Prof., Funds, School of Biochemistry, School of Medicine Medicine

Kathleen McNamee and $20,000 Child Development Lines Jacovides Lab., Psychology

Dept., College of Kathleen - Interim Dean, Science

College of Liberal Arts

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Moss $10,000 Endowed Scholarship Fund, School of

Gordon - M.D. '74, Medicine • Physician, Internal Medicine

Waino H. Pihl and $40,000 Applied Economics Susan M. Taylor Symposia, Economics

Dept., College of Waino - M.A. '72 & Liberal Arts

Ph.D. '77/Lib. Arts, Partner, Anderson Consulting

Richard & Kristine Sbaschnig $10,000 Manufacturing Engineering Campaign,

Richard - M.A. '77/Engineering, College of Engineering Engineer, Ford Motor Co.

Roger & Barbara Shulze $10,500 Manufacturing Engineering Campaign,

Roger - Cert. '72/Education College of Engineering Ph.D. '82/Engineering,

Engineer, Chrysler Corporation

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Patrick A. Villani, M.D .

Patrick - B.A. '58/Lib. Arts M.D. '62

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H. Barbara Jewett

H. Barbara - Retired Faculty-Chairperson, Occupational Therapy

Melvin & Bernadette Shaw

Melvin - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

Annual Giving

$10,000 Annual Fund, School of Medicine

$10,000 Occupational Therapy Research and Development Fund and Barbara Jewett Scholarship Fund, Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions

$15,518 Research, Elec. & Comp. Engineering Dept., College of Engineering

As a direct result of Annual Giving solicitations, the University received 11 ,889 donations which produced a revenue of $1 ,024,841.52 between October 1 , 1993 and January 28, 1994.

The breakdown is as follows:

Type of Appeal Revenue # Gifts

Direct Mail $272,431.23 2,592

Phonathon 249,195.31 5,484

Telemarketing 43,392.50 1,349

Corporate In-House· 40,336.48 454

Handouts 4,094.50 81

Peer Solicitation 16,400.00 38

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SUBTOTAL Annual Giving $645,850.02 9,998

Solicitations were also conducted by the Law School and the School of Medicine. The result of these solicitations are as follows:

Law School Medical School2

TOTAL ALL PROGRAMS

$131,731.50 $247,260.00

$1,024,841.52

599 1,292

11,889

2Updated School of Medicine figures were not available at the time of compilation. Medical School revenue and gift count is through December 17, 1993.

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