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Another Banner Fundraising Year
In the second most successful year in its fundraising history, Boston University brought in $93 million in fiscal year 2005, topping last year’s total of $90 million. Only fiscal year 2003 was better, with a total of $103.4 million. |
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Endowed Professorship Is Payment on a Debt
A School of Law graduate stepped away from a busy legal career for a moment this summer to remember his alma mater by endowing a new named professorship at the school. |
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Theatrical Exuberance
The entrance to Jonathan Scharer’s memorial service last fall was lined with a double row of Elvis impersonators: twenty of them of varying ages, sizes, and abilities, each performing a different Elvis song. “It was chaos,” Michael Scarna, Scharer’s assistant, recalls happily. |
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Artful Giver
“I just love art.”
Faye G. Yoffa Stone’s reason for pledging a gift of $500,000 to renovate the Boston University Art Gallery seems simple enough. |
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For Our Children’s Health
David Rosenbloom has been promoting childhood health and safety for decades. The task is tougher than ever. |
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When the Epidemic Ends
Where others see catastrophe, Bill Bicknell sees hope. Take, for example, his work in Lesotho, a small, poor, landlocked country in southern Africa where more than a third of the adult population is infected with HIV. |
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A Gift for Theater
Studio 210 isn’t Broadway. Home to many student productions, it’s a large room on the second floor of the Boston University Theatre on Huntington Avenue, without the traditional proscenium stage, a curtain, or clearly delineated audience and actor spaces. |
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An Honor for the Author as Teacher
Leslie Epstein’s novels have received wide acclaim, from his third, King of the Jews (1979), regarded as a classic of Holocaust fiction and published in eleven languages, to San Remo Drive (2003), which the Los Angeles Times called “wholly compelling.” |
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A Second Career
Twenty-one years ago, Beryl Bunker retired from her job as senior vice president of John Hancock Financial Services and promptly embarked on a second career: volunteering and fundraising for Boston-area organizations devoted to the economic empowerment of women. |
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Taking on Alzheimer’s
Michael Critelli, president and CEO of Pitney Bowes, cares about the health of his employees. A smoke-free workplace since 1990, Pitney Bowes aggressively enrolls smokers in cessation programs. |
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Escalator to Success
In need of a new home for its growing student population, the School of Hospitality Administration embarked on a campaign to fund the complete renovation of the three-story building at 928 Commonwealth Avenue, directly across the street from the University’s John Hancock Student Village. |
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Toward More and Better-Prepared Minority Journalists
Before Ida Lewis became the first black woman to publish a national magazine, the first editor-in-chief of Essence, or the first financial editor at New York’s Amsterdam News, she was a student in Boston University’s College of Communication, eager to pursue a career in journalism and explore new opportunities for young African-Americans. |
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Art for Hockey’s Sake
Murals at the Harry Agganis Arena honoring Terrier Hockey now also recognize one player in particular. Two murals depicting Boston University’s thirty-six Hockey All-Americans from 1949 to 2003 hang on the second floor of the arena. |
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Dave Walko: Lifelong Terrier
Dave Walko’s is a familiar face to just about anyone involved with BU athletics. In the mo.e than four decades since he arrived at BU as a freshman, Walko (CAS’68) has shared his stories and good advice with student-athletes, prospective students, fans, and alumni. |
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Highlighted Events
Introducing President Brown, Hillel House Opens and A Salute to President Chobanian. |
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Friends through the Years
It’s good to have an old friend, one who sticks by you through the years. Boston University has such a friend in the Whitaker Foundation. |
