Community Benefactors are a distinguished group of Southwestern University’s donors who value the mutually beneficial relationship which exists between the University and the community and who make annual gifts of at least $500 in support of priority initiatives.
A Board of Trustees member and his wife from Houston made a $245,233.50 gift to the Jake & Jane Schrum Paideia Fund, to honor the upcoming retirement from Southwestern of President Schrum on June 30, 2013.
The Grogan Lord Foundation made a $100,000 gift toward the Jake & Jane Schrum Paideia Fund. In addition, the Lord Foundation also made an unrestricted gift valued at $1.6 million to Southwestern’s endowment.