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Supporting the WCBA
Major Gift Profiles
Bill Hough Names Graduate School with Largest Gift in UF History
William R. "Bill" Hough graduated as a member of the University of Florida's first MBA class in 1948, and has been supporting UF ever since. Now, he makes university history again, as the donor of the largest private gift UF has ever received, $30 million dollars. In recognition of this overwhelming show of support, the university has established a new school that bears his name: The Hough Graduate School of Business.
The gift establishes an endowment to support teaching, academic programs and enhancements in the graduate school of business, in which approximately 1,500 students are currently enrolled, and provides a lead gift to construct a new building to house the graduate business programs. The building will be named William R. Hough Hall, once approved by the UF Board of Trustees and the Florida Legislature. Hough's gift will be eligible for matching funds from the State of Florida Major Gifts Trust Fund and from the Alec P. Courtelis Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grant Program, potentially increasing the total value of the gift to $50 million.
Complete Article (pdf)
Hough Program
More Donor News
GatorNest Receives $105K Gift from Dow Electronics
Graduate students from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida will get a chance to experience business in the real world.
A $105,000 donation made by Dow Electronics will create the Philip A. Decker GatorNest Endowment Fund in memory of Philip A. Decker, entrepreneur and founder of Dow Electronics, a supplier of signal reception and signal distribution equipment based in Tampa, Fla.
Complete Article (pdf)
Hough Program in Finance Continues to Grow Thanks to Recent Private Gifts
It was announced today that a $100,000 gift from Robert (BSBA '85; MBA '87) and Lauren (BSBA '86) Penter of Marietta, Ga., will be added to the William R. Hough Masters Program in Finance Fund.
Along with the Penter's Charles (BSBA '72) and Kyle (BA '73) Ball of Vero Beach, Fla., announced today that a $200,000 gift will be added to the William R. Hough Masters Program in Finance Fund.
Complete Article (pdf)
Rachlin Foundation Gives $25,000 To Support UF Accounting Doctoral Program
The Rachlin Foundation-Harvey Miller Memorial Scholarship Fund will bestow a gift of $5,000 annually for the next five years, $25,000 total, to support students in the Fisher School of Accounting doctoral program. The fund, established in memory of Rachlin Cohen & Holtz senior partner and University of Florida alum Harvey Miller, is an investment in the future of the accounting profession.
Complete Article (pdf)
Bill Hough Gives an Additional $1.8 Million to the Hough Program in Finance
William R. Hough (MBA '48) knows a good business deal when he sees one. So, when he saw the opportunity to enhance the finance program that bears his name at UF, and at the same time answer President Bernie Machen's Faculty Challenge, he couldn't pass it up.
Bill Hough has made a gift of an additional $1.8 million to the Hough Program in Finance, which will be matched with $250,000 from a special fund set up through President Machen's Faculty Challenge Initiative.
Along with his additional contribution, Mr. Hough sought the help of fellow alumni, colleagues and friends to raise additional funds which, along with his gifts, will also be matched 1 for 1 by the state. As of January 2006, a total of $3,668,834 in private gifts has been received and a 100% match from the State's Major Gift Trust Fund is pending.
Complete Article (pdf)
Ben O. Franklin Donates $100,000 in Stock to Poe Center for Business Ethics
Concerned with the recent ethics scandals in businesses, University of Florida alumnus Ben O. Franklin wants to encourage UF students not to get caught in the same trend as they head into the working world.
In hopes that students follow this advice, it was announced today that Franklin, a lifelong resident of Gainesville and one of the first UF basketball season ticket holders, donated $100,000 in stock to the Elizabeth B. and William F. Poe Center for Business Ethics and Research at UF's Warrington College of Business. Students in the program will not only report on their activities in the business ethics class, but will also report to Franklin annually.
Complete Article (pdf)
International Business (MAIB) Program Receives $100,000 Gift
Two Gulf Breeze University of Florida business alumni have donated $100,000 to support the Master of Arts in International Business (MAIB) program at the UF's Warrington College of Business.
The donation from Matt and Tammy Dannheisser and the Picard-Dannheisser Family Foundation will create the Dannheisser Endowment and will benefit the program's research-based final project, which can be done in lieu of a thesis.
Complete Article (pdf)
Bernard Berkman Pledges Planned Gift of $1.4 million to Fisher School of Acct.
It's been said that a quality college experience stays with you throughout life.
Amelia Island, Fla. resident and University of Florida alumnus Bernard Berkman attests to that and
recently showed his appreciation to UF by making a major pledge to the university.
Berkman, a 1960 graduate of UF's Warrington College of Business, has pledged a planned gift
valued at $1.4 million to UF's Fisher School of Accounting to establish the Bernard H. Berkman
Accounting Enrichment Fund. Income generated from the fund will support teaching, research and
programs in the school.
Complete Article (pdf)
George & Lisa Onkey Etheridge Pledge $390,000 to Endow Professorship
A Palm Harbor, Fla. couple wanting others to have a chance to enjoy the
benefits of quality faculty as they did at the University of Florida have taken a step to make that
happen.
It was announced today that Warrington College of Business Administration at the University
of Florida graduates George and Lisa Onkey Etheridge have pledged $390,000 to endow a
professorship in international business.
Complete Article (pdf)
Faculty Challenge Initiative
The 90 faculty in the Warrington College of Business Administration are at the heart of this great institution, and influence a large number of students at the University of Florida each year. Business has a history of a rich research culture, having been the home of the state's first eminent scholar chair, the Matherly-McKethan, since 1979. Since then, 11 additional chairs have been established at the College.
The Faculty Challenge is an initiative to raise $150 million in private support for endowment to give faculty the tools they need to enhance classroom instruction and conduct world-class research. Because of the high priority President Machen has placed on this initiative, he has pledged to add $250,000 to each gift of $1 million or more. The president's match will come from a special discretionary fund established with private donations specifically for the Faculty Challenge until the fund is exhausted.
We currently have 25 endowed professorships, but many more junior and adjunct faculty are in need of support.
Faculty Challenge
Endowed Professorships & Eminent Scholars
Annual Giving
Our annual appeal to alumni has just begun! Each year, UF students begin a campaign to contact each one of you, through mail or during our "phonathon," to raise money for our annual fund. These appeals are critical to UF, as annual fund dollars are used for many general purposes in support of faculty and students.
This year, however, the stakes have been raised! The SEC has initiated a "challenge" to conference schools in an effort to increase recent graduate giving rates. The SEC Challenge has been issued only to alums who received an undergraduate in the last ten years and will not be tracked on dollar amount raised, but strictly on participation! Help us become #1 and prove to the rest of the SEC that there's no greater spirit than Gator spirit!
SEC Challenge
How Your Annual Fund Gift Helps
- Assist student organizations;
- Support curriculum development for new electives that help students transition from high school to college, and from college to the workplace, such as the new "Warrington Welcome" course for entering freshman and "Business Communications" for all undergraduates;
- Provide seed money for promising student and faculty research projects to encourage innovation;
- Acquire new technology applications for research and teaching;
- Renovating facilities; it may not sound glamorous, but sufficient and technologically outfitted office and classroom space in Bryan, Matherly, and Stuzin Halls is crucial to everything we do - and your support to update these aging buildings is the strength on which we build our future!
Phonathon Schedule
The students began calling graduates (since 1995) in mid-July. Calls to all alumni will begin in mid-August.
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