CLASS GIFT

Class of 1961 Teaching Collegium Chair Fund

For our 50th reunion, the Class of ’61 is looking to raise $2 million for the Class of 1961 Teaching Collegium Chair. When we reach the $2 million mark, the Hewlett Foundation will match our gift with an additional $1 million, establishing a $3 million Chair for our class.

The Class of 1961 Chair will be one of 8 – 10 chairs in the Teaching Collegium. Housed in the College of Letters and Science, these chairs will be open to distinguished faculty across the campus who teach within undergraduate major programs. Faculty will be nominated on the basis of excellence in teaching and research and selected by the five deans of the College of Letters and Science for five-year terms.

Membership in the Collegium will provide faculty with the resources and opportunity to try out new ideas in the classroom, mentor other professors and graduate students, and undertake new joint initiatives—in other words, to play a lead role in enhancing undergraduate teaching throughout the University. In addition to meeting regularly to collaborate, Collegium members will:

Explore and model effective ways to engage undergraduates directly in research;

Engage graduate students in improving undergraduate education;

Help departments in their efforts to enhance undergraduate learning: e.g., through mentorship of new faculty and/or peer review of teaching;

Disseminate their teaching innovations and insights in additional ways, possibly through a lecture series and/or workshops.

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Class of 1961 Funds

THE GEORGE LINK '61 MEMORIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FUND (W-6104)

The Achievement Award Program (TAAP) is based on need. Both transfers from junior colleges, one of our scholars has already graduated; the other will be a senior in the Fall. Students receive $6,000 per year; it requires approximately $150,000 to generate $6,000 per year. To fully fund one student would require approximately $90,000 more in endowed funds, hence the Alumni Association supplements our payout from a TAAP general endowment fund (unnamed gifts).

SECOND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED

The George Link '61 Memorial Achievement Award Fund Scholar for the 2010-2011 Academic Year is Sandra Nunez.

FIRST SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED

Korina Guzman, from Torrance received $6,000 in the 2009-2010 Academic Year. $144 of which was contributed by George's scholarship fund (amount of interest eamed on contributions.) CAA supplemented the remaining monies from its general TAAP endowment fund. George's fund will obviously generate more interest in the future.

THE CLASS OF 1961 ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP (W-9611)

The Leadership Award is $2,000 per recipient per year and is based on demonstrated leadership ability. Established for our 40th reunion, we originally assisted one student annually (sometimes for the full four years) and now two. It requires $50,000 to generate, on average, a payout of $2,000-$2,500 per year.

LIBRARY FUND

The University Library, one of the world's great research libraries, holds a special place in the hearts and minds of Berkeley alumni, faculty and students. The Library serves as a home for research, collaboration, and study, whether in the Great Rooms of Doe Library, the comfortable and elegant Morrison Library, the Free Speech Movement Cafe, or at one of the specialized subject libraries located across campus in all the schools and colleges.

In order to continue to acquire, organize, and make accessible new information, the Library depends on the support of those who understand how important a world-class library is to the education of students who will one day shape our future. Your gifts help to preserve, support, and expand this extraordinary resource for generations to come.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE:

Class members (or anybody else for that matter) can contribute.

HERE'S HOW :

Contributions may be made online, by mail or by telephone, either with a check or a credit card.

CONTRIBUTE ON-LINE

GIFT BY PHONE USING CREDIT CARD

Michelle De La Cruz -(510) 642-0957.

GIFT BY CHECK

Make check payable to: UC Berkeley Foundation
Add a memo: If there is a specific program you want to support

Mail To:
Reunion Campaigns
University Relations, UC Berkeley
2080 Addison St.#4200
Berkeley, CA 94720

GIFT OF SECURITIES

Contact: Sylvia Worthington – 510.642.4123