High-end giving sets records

Gifts to the Ever to Excel Campaign of $100,000 or more reached record levels during the past year. The University received 12 pledges of $1 million or more, totaling $50.8 million, and 85 commitments of $100,000 to $999,999, totaling $17 million.

"The increase in leadership giving is a reflection of the commitment so many people have made to the excellence that defines Boston College. Through the support of these individuals, Boston College begins this next year even more confident in its standing among the nation's best universities," said Jack Connors '63, cochair of the Ever to Excel Campaign.

Highlights of the year included a $1 million pledge from Robert M. Devlin P'88, '90 and his family in honor of James A. Woods, SJ, in support of the College of Advancing Studies; a $2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support Intersections, a four-part program that integrates students' intellectual and social formation under the principle of vocation; a $350,000 commitment from the Fruscione family to establish the Joseph L. Fruscione '91 Scholarship Endowment Fund; corporate events hosted in New York by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, each leading to a pledge of $1 million from alumni, parents, and friends associated with those firms; and successful regional campaign kickoffs in New York and Southern California.

Photo: Attending the 13th Annual Wall Street Council Tribute Dinner, held April 19, were University Chancellor J. Donald Monan, SJ, Cynthia Egan '78, and Tribute Dinner cochair Mario Gabelli P'90, '94, '95, '00. The dinner raised $1.5 million for the University. Photo by John Raiola

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