Find out what's going on around campus at: |
June 4:
Ralph Friedgen Invitational |
Head
Football Coach Ralph Friedgen ’70, ’72 and the Maryland Gridiron
Network host this annual golf outing at the beautiful 36-hole, award-winning
Lowes course. For more information visit |
 Campaign UpdateRecent major gifts are making a big impact. Chairman and CEO of CSX Michael J. Ward '72 and his wife Theresa made a five-year commitment of $285,000 to support the Maryland Incentive Awards Program. Their gift will support graduates of Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore. Students will receive full tuition, fees and room and board thanks to the Ward's generosity. Their commitment to education will have a lasting impact on these young men and women and the communities they serve. Willie M. Webb's bequest will add at least $250,000 to the Miss Willie M. Webb Reliability Engineering Fellowship endowment at the A. James Clark School of Engineering. Ms. Webb, a technical assistant in the reliability engineering program for 15 years, died of complications from respiratory ailments and lung cancer on April 10, 2007 at the age of 63. She established this endowment previously in 2004 to assist and encourage women and underrepresented minorities to pursue graduate studies in the area of reliability engineering. Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, professor emeritus of history and authority on the gardens of antiquity, is bequeathing her Silver Spring home to the university's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The “Stanley and Wilhelmina Jashemski Study Center” will be used to house the school's distinguished visiting professor and serve as a gathering place for the scholarly community that Jashemski so carefully cultivated during her 61-year relationship with the university. James A. Ruckert ‘49 pledged a bequest of $500,000 to establish the James A. Ruckert Special Collections Endowment in the University Libraries. The Ruckert endowment will provide support for the enhancement, preservation and promotion of the Special Collections department in the R. Lee Hornbake Library. Ruckert, who is remembered by many as Jim Kehoe's assistant track coach from 1951 to 1971, retired from the Prince George's county public school system in 1983 after a career teaching environmental education. In recognition of his generosity, the Libraries will name the foyer and reception area in Hornbake Library, the Audrey Armistead Ruckert Reception Foyer in honor of his wife.  | |||