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New gifts to the Annual Fund in June will trigger grants totaling up to $100,000 through the generosity of four trustees in the 1826 Challenge. A gift is considered new if the donor has not given previously this fiscal year (July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009).
S. Robert Beane ’58, James Fisher ’77, George Jenkins ’74, and Bob Sell ’84 have pledged funding that will provide an additional $25,000 to Lafayette as each level of new gifts is reached:
Each week in June, a pair of tickets to November’s Lafayette-Lehigh football game will be given to a new donor through a random drawing.
The 1826 Challenge webpage will debut a different video created for the campaign on the first four Tuesdays of the month. To receive email notification when a new video has been posted, email fund@lafayette.edu. The webpage also will provide updates on the campaign’s progress and reveal the winners of the Lafayette-Lehigh drawings.
The campaign is named after the year in which the College was founded. Sue Carras ’76, chair of the Board of Trustees’ Development and Alumni Affairs Committee, played a major role in coordinating the effort.