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Brown Launches Public Phase of Campaign to Raise $1.4 Billion
Boldly Brown kicks off with gala celebration, faculty presentations, convocation
Addressing an audience of alumni, parents, members of the
Brown Corporation, and other friends of the University, President Ruth J.
Simmons launched the largest comprehensive campaign in the University's
history, an undertaking that will raise $1.4 billion by December 2010.
President Simmons and campaign co-chiars (from left) Jerome Vascellaro, Elizabeth Chase, and Matthew Mallow at the kickoff of Boldly Brown.
Boldly Brown, officially launched during an evening gala
in the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center on Oct. 22, has a goal more than three
times larger than any previous Brown campaign goal. It will help secure the
University's Plan for Academic Enrichment.
"The campaign we announce tonight has many goals but a
single purpose," Simmons said during the Saturday evening celebration, "and
that purpose is to secure Brown's place among the world's finest universities
by supporting and enriching academic life, which has at its heart the vital,
creative connection between scholars and students."
Simmons, joined by campaign
co-chairs Elizabeth Chace, Matthew Mallow, and Jerome Vascellaro,
also announced that a nucleus fund raised by the University's closest
benefactors had brought the Boldly Brown campaign more than 41 percent of the
way toward its goal. As of Saturday evening, Boldly Brown had raised $575
million in gifts and pledges.
Chancellor Stephen Robert, left, and President Simmons, right, flank Presidential Citation winners (from left) Jyothi Nagraj Marbin, Barrymore Bogues, Jan Tullis, Peiling Li, Maria D'Onofrio, Kristina Davitt, and Enis Taner.
The gala celebration, together with a simultaneous student
gathering called "Live on Lincoln," capped a day of special research presentations by
faculty covering such timely topics as the battle over evolution, and the
economic inequities exacerbated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. At an afternoon
convocation, eight members of the Brown community received Presidential
Citations from President Simmons for their particular contributions to the Plan
for Academic Enrichment.
The eight, each of whom had been nominated by a Brown
faculty, staff member or student, are:
- Barrymore A. Bogues, professor of Africana studies;
- Kristina M. Davitt, a 2004 Master of Science recipient;
- Maria D'Onofrio, University Library Ð Gateway Services;
- Nicholas J. Hartigan, Class of 2006;
- Peiling A. Li, Class of 2006;
- Jyothi Nagraj Marbin, Class of 1996, M.D. Class of 2006;
- Enis B. Taner, Class of 2006, M.D. Class of 2010;
- Jan Tullis, professor of geological sciences.
The Boldly Brown Web site offers campaign news, stories, and charts.
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