OK Ladies & gents. Time to step & make those dreams reality.

My class of 1965 presented President Taylor Reveley a check for $20,614,473 on Saturday May 2, 2015; the largest class gift (by far) in the history of the college

A good chunk of this goes to athletics.

These are good times to support the College & we look forward to seeing this record broken!


Overall Giving: $20,614,473
Overall Giving Goal: $15,000,000
Overall Giving Percent: 137.43%

Class Project Giving: $1,138,298

Alumni House Expansion $1,138,298

Alumni House Endowment $340,285
Class Project Giving Goal: $1,000,000

Class Participation: 52%
Class Participation Goal: 50%

Graduates Participation: 60%

That's very impressive, congrats to you and your class! Do you know if the funds earmarked for athletics were directed at a certain program or project? Or just to the general athletics fund?

(05-06-2015 08:38 AM)hktribefan Wrote:  That's very impressive, congrats to you and your class! Do you know if the funds earmarked for athletics were directed at a certain program or project? Or just to the general athletics fund?

Yes & yes but no specifics.

People could give funds in any way they wished.

(05-06-2015 08:57 AM)wanm65 Wrote:  

(05-06-2015 08:38 AM)hktribefan Wrote:  That's very impressive, congrats to you and your class! Do you know if the funds earmarked for athletics were directed at a certain program or project? Or just to the general athletics fund?

Yes & yes but no specifics.

People could give funds in any way they wished.

So that 20 million isn't going straight into the new Lax program?

(05-06-2015 08:17 AM)wanm65 Wrote:  OK Ladies & gents. Time to step & make those dreams reality.

My class of 1965 presented President Taylor Reveley a check for $20,614,473 on Saturday May 2, 2015; the largest class gift (by far) in the history of the college

A good chunk of this goes to athletics.

These are good times to support the College & we look forward to seeing this record broken!


Overall Giving: $20,614,473
Overall Giving Goal: $15,000,000
Overall Giving Percent: 137.43%

Class Project Giving: $1,138,298

Alumni House Expansion $1,138,298

Alumni House Endowment $340,285
Class Project Giving Goal: $1,000,000

Class Participation: 52%
Class Participation Goal: 50%

Graduates Participation: 60%

Does any of this $20 million show up in gifts that have already been announced, or is this all new money?

(05-06-2015 09:31 AM)TDenverFan Wrote:  

(05-06-2015 08:57 AM)wanm65 Wrote:  

(05-06-2015 08:38 AM)hktribefan Wrote:  That's very impressive, congrats to you and your class! Do you know if the funds earmarked for athletics were directed at a certain program or project? Or just to the general athletics fund?

Yes & yes but no specifics.

People could give funds in any way they wished.

So that 20 million isn't going straight into the new Lax program?

Well done TD...
Congrats to The Class of '65

I'm not impressed...it took'em 50 years to do it.

The old class record for a 50th was 9.3 million, so 20+ is really impressive.

Of course, the classes started to get larger around 1963. Up until then W&M had around 1650 undergraduates with about 400 in a graduating class.

Fifty years from now today's large graduating classes of around 1500 should routinely top twenty million.

(05-06-2015 03:46 PM)Big Tribe Wrote:  The old class record for a 50th was 9.3 million, so 20+ is really impressive.

Of course, the classes started to get larger around 1963. Up until then W&M had around 1650 undergraduates with about 400 in a graduating class.

Fifty years from now today's large graduating classes of around 1500 should routinely top twenty million.

With inflation and what not, they'd better be topping a lot more than 20 million.

Class of 65 started with around 590 (89 now deceased).

I forgot how many actually graduated, so we were well under 500.

So I hope you are correct that future classes will easily get past $20M.

President Reveley has stated more than once that if each grad gave $25 each year we would be in great shape.

Until this year most years were in the 20-30% giving range.

Congrats! Very impressive.

Well done.

(05-06-2015 03:46 PM)Big Tribe Wrote:  The old class record for a 50th was 9.3 million, so 20+ is really impressive.

Of course, the classes started to get larger around 1963. Up until then W&M had around 1650 undergraduates with about 400 in a graduating class.

Fifty years from now today's large graduating classes of around 1500 should routinely top twenty million.

I might be mistaken, but I think the 52% donor rate was also a record for an entering Olde Guarde class (50th year). So even accounting for class size this was an outstanding achievement.

Great job!