University of Southern Indiana

USI Alumni Association

Issue 4: December 2002
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Challenge offers alumni the chance to
step up their giving

"The Challenge for Academic Excellence offers all USI alumni the opportunity to thank USI's generous friends in the Evansville community, while at the same time to begin stepping up their own personal giving," remarked Ron Romain '73, co-chair of the Challenge Alumni Major Gifts Committee along with his wife Connie '74. Over the years, USI alumni have come to rely on the University's friends to fulfill major gift opportunities for USI, he continued, but the time has come for all of us who graduated from USI to begin fulfilling the role that these generous friends have played over the years.

Romain, who is chair elect of the USI Foundation, is chairing a committee of alumni who are spearheading major gift requests to help meet the Lilly Endowment Initiative to strengthen philanthropy among alumni of all Indiana colleges and universities. Lilly is matching all alumni gifts received between June 1, 2002 and December 31, 2003 up to $3 million as long as the gifts support academics. The Challenge Alumni Major gifts Committee set an initial goal of $1 million, knowing that the average, annual alumni giving at USI has been in the $200,000 range over the past five years.

Members of the committee serving with the Romains are Joey Barnett '91, Claudette Branson '76, David Herrenbruck '76, Jean Keasling-Vieck '85, Robbie Kent Centennial, Nancy Sieben Koehler '93, Susan McGregor Knight '94, Frank McDonald II '73, Mark Neidig '76, Bob Roeder '71, Ken Sendelweck '76, Bob Swan '72, Donita Wolf '83, and Robert Woosley II '92.

Make your 2002 Challenge Gift Now!

It's not too late to make a tax-deductible charitable gift in calendar year 2002 to help meet the USI/Lilly Challenge for Academic Excellence. Please make your gift before December 31 to qualify for the first year of the match. You may make your gift on line at the USI Foundation's secure web site: https://www.usi.edu/giving/ssl/giftform.htm
or mail your check to the USI Foundation, 8600 University Boulevard, Evansville, IN 47712. Your questions may be emailed to Suzanne Nicholson, president of the USI Foundation, at snichols@usi.edu.

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