Torchbearer: Spring 1997

Campaign Steams Toward Goal

Alumni and other friends continue to make generous contributions to UT's 21st Century Campaign. The total given or pledged is more than $289 million toward a $308 million goal.

Some recent gifts include:

·$2.5 million in bequests from the estate of John Edwin Lutz II and his wife, Heather. The couple gave books to the library in 1963, and later established an endowment honoring John Lutz's father, Edwin R. Lutz.

·$1 million from DeRoyal Industries and its president and CEO, Pete DeBusk. The College of Business Administration gets $250,000, and the remainder goes to the UT Medical Center at Knoxville.

·$154,000 from the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell. The gift will help furnish and equip the new College of Law Building, currently under construction.

·$100,000 to the College of Law from Allen Separk ('69), an attorney in Marietta, Ga. The gift is for an endowment to support faculty research.

·$50,000 from Thomas ('66) and Linda Morris of Atlanta to add to a scholarship fund they established in 1988. Thomas Morris is a divisional senior vice president for Paine-Webber.

·$50,000 from the Fred M. Roddy Foundation of Attleboro, Mass., bringing the amount given during 1996 to $125,000. Roddy ('27) left a $500,000 bequest for scholarships in 1969. With subsequent gifts from the foundation, the fund has provided 4,200 students $3.2 million in scholarship aid.

·$45,000 from local governments in Sevier County (Tenn.). Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville pledged $25,000 to UT's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. Sevier County gave $20,000 to the UT County Technical Assistance Service. The gift will support consulting services for cities and counties.

·$23,000 from Exxon's educational grant program to four departments in the College of Engineering-chemical, mechanical and aerospace, civil, and electrical and computer-and to the geological sciences department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

·A gift for scholarships in the College of Communications from Mary Cook Reeder, Claude S. Reeder Jr., Susan Reeder Siler, and Theodore Paul Siler Jr., all UTK alumni. The Reeder-Siler Graduate Fellowship in Communications will go to academically talented and creative communications graduate students.