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Introduction Benjamin Rush
First in America: Fulfilling Our Destiny

"This is our moment to be idealistic in the best sense of the word—to leave our College better than we found it. We are resolved to get it right, and that will take new financial strength in key places."

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Spring 2009 Ed Fleegler '73

Turning Frustration into Inspiration

To inspire Dickinson students to help tackle the daunting challenge of national health-care reform, Ed Fleegler '73 recently pledged $100,000 to establish the Fleegler Family Scholarship Endowment in Health Studies.
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4-14-2009 Rose Dinner
Rose Scholars Gather for Annual Dinner

Nearly three dozen Samuel G. Rose, Esq. ’58 Scholarship recipients gathered in the president’s residence for the annual Rose Scholarship Dinner.
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3-22-2009 Science Complex
Donor-Scholar Luncheon

Forty-five donors met with the students who benefit from their generous gifts. See pictures and video excerpts of this highly anticipated event.
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2-2-2009 1783 Challenge

1783 Challenge Attracts Nearly 2,400 Gifts

More than 2,000 alumni, parents and friends of the college helped make the 1783 Challenge a success by pledging 2,398 gifts to the college during the month of December.
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Winter 2009 Linking Science’s Future With its Past

Linking Science’s Future With its Past

Through his recent $100,000 gift to the college, Neal Abraham ’72 helped fund a Rector Science Complex laser lab and named two of the complex's alcoves after historic scientists with Dickinson ties, Benjamin Rush and Joseph Priestley. Read more...


Campaign Update

10-24-2008 Science Complex
Rector Science Complex Dedication

More than 200 Dickinson students, faculty, alumni and friends celebrated the dedication of the Rector Science Complex’s new Stuart and James halls.
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9-2-2008 Science Complex
Campaign Video Wins Award

The First in America Campaign video earned a silver medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) Circle of Excellence Awards program.
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Summer 2008 The President’s Professor
The President’s Professor

Lieselotte Kurth's unique ties to President William G. Durden '71 have motivated her to give the Waidner-Spahr Library a complete collection of the works of one of the pillars of 18th-century German literature. Read more...




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