Campaign Total Tops $46 million;
Annual Fund Exceeds Goal
As we close the books on the 2006-07 fiscal year, BB&N is thrilled to
report that the Opening Minds Campaign has topped the
$46 million mark
toward its goal of $62 million. Key to the success of the Campaign to date
was the completion of the anonymous
$10 Million Challenge, received in
Spring 2003, which matched all new commitments for endowment and the Upper
School Building Project on a one-for-two basis and generated the first
$30 million of the Campaign.
Gifts in response to the $10 Million Challenge have provided crucial funds
for the Upper School Building Project and endowment for faculty, financial
aid, and other programs. The successful completion of this Challenge has
also stimulated three other exciting challenges: the Alumni/ae Challenge
nearing completion, the Faculty Challenge launched this spring, and a
new George Serries Theater Challenge.
Equally exciting is that this year's Annual Fund—another important
priority of the Opening Minds Campaign—has exceeded its
$2.125 million goal
and will provide more than $2.2 million in operating support this year for
faculty, financial aid, academic programs, and all areas of the School's
operating budget.
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Join us on Saturday, September 29!
(date change from October 13)
"Opening Doors: BB&N Community Celebration and Alumni/ae Homecoming" will
welcome all BB&N alumni/ae, parents, grandparents and friends to a
celebration of our new Upper School campus. Join us for building tours, art
studio open houses, mini-classes, ribbon-cutting, homecoming games, and more.
more details
Faculty Challenge Launched To
Sustain Excellence In Teaching
To support the $12 million faculty endowment goal of the Opening Minds
Campaign, several generous donors have made commitments to help create a
$2 million challenge pool that will be used to match all new gifts of
$100,000 or more on a 1 for 2 basis. (e.g., a $100,000 gift will
generate an additional $50,000 from the Challenge pool). When both the
pool and matching funds are received, BB&N will have received $6 million
to add to funds already raised toward the $12 million goal for endowed
faculty support.
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Alumni/ae Challenge Nears Completion
Thanks to the generosity of 28 alumni/ae in classes ranging from 1935 to 1998,
the $1 million anonymous Alumni/ae Challenge has nearly been met.
This two-year Challenge, announced in November 2005, is from a BB&N graduate
who pledged $1 million to match all new commitments of $25,000 or more
from alumni/ae who had never given at that level, or the amount of increase over
a donor's previous gift at that level. With the November 2007 deadline
approaching, BB&N has received $850,000 in qualifying gifts and pledges.
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Challenge Gift to Name Upper School
Theater for George Serries
Exciting news! BB&N has just received a commitment of $175,000 from an
anonymous alumnus to be used as a 1:1 challenge to other donors. Gifts in
response to this special challenge will be allocated toward the Upper School
Building Project and, when combined with previous gifts to the project, will
name the new theater in memory of former faculty member George Serries.
Serries, who taught drama, English, and French at B&N and BB&N from
1964 to 1982, made a remarkable impact on the lives of many alumni/ae of this
era, and helped establish BB&N's strong drama program that continues to
this day under the direction of Mark Lindberg. continued
Past Parents Gather to Tour
New Upper School Building
More than 100 parents of alumni/ae gathered at the Upper School on April 22,
2007, to reconnect with each other and BB&N and tour the nearly completed
Upper School building project. The event was organized by the recently created
Past Parent Committee chaired by Deedie Bouscaren P'03, Janet Berkeley P'06,
and Sharon Malt P'06. Building tours were led by past parent and former
trustee Rick Kobus P'01, '05, Assistant Head for Operations Thom Greenlaw,
and Project Manager Cynthia Westerman. continued
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Welcome to the first online issue of Openings, our periodic publication
to report the progress of BB&N's Opening Minds Campaign. We plan to send
several issues of this publication via email throughout the year to share
Campaign news with you in a timely and effective manner, be more
environmentally conscious, and save on printing and mailing costs.
We hope you find this online newsletter to be an interesting way to keep
up-to-date on our Campaign and its transformative effect on the BB&N
community. As we celebrate the opening of our magnificent new Upper School
facilities this fall, we will be reaching out to more of you for your support
for the Campaign's equally important endowment goals—support for our
dedicated faculty, diverse student body, and wide-ranging academic program—as
well as the all-important Annual Fund which supports our annual operating
budget.
We welcome your participation in the months to come!
Gary F. Gut P'03
Opening Minds Campaign Chair
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
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and reports news, events, and progress of the Opening Minds Campaign. For
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