The impact of your gifts

Several years ago Randy Massengale, a 1978 graduate of Lewis & Clark and a current member of the Board of Trustees, and his wife, Kit Campbell Massengale, class of 1981, established a need-based scholarship to honor academic achievement and community service demonstrated by a student of African American, Native American, Hispanic American, or Asian American descent. The Massengale Scholarship celebrates dedication to learning, civic responsibility, and the common good, and seeks to prepare students for positions of leadership in a diverse society.

Tracy Nguyen-Chung ’07 received the scholarship before the start of her junior year. Her letter to the Massengales illustrates how the generosity and vitality of the Lewis & Clark College community transcend the constraints of time, geography, and cultures.

Tracy’s letter also reveals the lives and principles of two former students converging with the history and hopes of a current student and her family. Her letter expresses with clarity and certainty the immediate impact of the Massengales’ generosity. It even anticipates the future impact, as Tracy contemplates helping shape the lives of others in very real ways, just as she is being shaped by her parents’ lessons and her Lewis & Clark experience.

As part of the Lewis & Clark community, you too have an impact on many others in many ways. This annual report highlights some of the good work you make possible, and the pages that follow list all whose generosity this past fiscal year makes them partners in our enterprise of scholarship and service.

Your gifts strengthen the College’s financial foundation and have broad institutional impact. At the same time, the effects of your generosity are deeply individual, as students benefit from the financial aid, academic programs, and critical resources your contributions enhance. Consider, for example, that because of you:

• Charlie Morgan ’08, a scholar-athlete with varsity letters in rowing and swimming, has assisted a community in Oaxaca, Mexico, with public health issues, and helps organize the Multicultural Fair on campus.

• Ian Dorresteyn M.A.T. ’07 brings life experiences from a variety of challenging, nontraditional work settings to pursuing a degree that will help him reduce educational disparities in the United States.

• Margot Lutzenhiser J.D. ’07 has been involved with the Women’s Law Caucus, volunteers as a mediator for Resolution Northwest, and is preparing for a public service career in consumer protection.

Each of these students represents many others and many lives changed. When you give to Lewis & Clark, you affirm the enduring value that comes from expanding knowledge, pushing the boundaries of conventional wisdom, fostering critical thinking, mentoring students, supporting collaborative research, providing pro bono services, advancing education and counseling, and promoting an ethic of service in communities around the world. Simply put, your generosity transforms lives.

Lewis & Clark College offers a wide array of opportunities and ways to seed the future. To learn more about how you can give and what your gift does, visit our institutional giving website at: http://www.lclark. edu/dept/support.

Please note
The lists that follow reflect our records as of September 30, 2006, and identify donors whose contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Counseling, or School of Law were recorded for the period of June 1, 2005, through May 31, 2006. Please let us know of any errors, discrepancies, or omissions so we may correct our records and ensure appropriate notification to donors. Whether your gift was directed to the undergraduate college, graduate school, or law school, you may notify us as follows:

Mail
Advancement Services
Lewis & Clark College
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road
Portland, Oregon 97219-7899

Phone
503-768-7940
800-753-9292, ext. 4

E-mail
giving@lclark.edu

View the 2005-2006 Honor Roll of Donors