A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34263 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: February 5 1924 Article Description: GWU Fundraising Page 8 Article Text: Washington Post February 5, 1924 GWU Fundraising Page 8 G.W.U.'S $1,000,000 FUND HAS $120,000 IN PLEDGES Students Have Raised $60,000 and Faculty Gives $20,000; $5,000 Gift. Workers in the George Washington university building and endowment fund campaign will meet in the Ebbitt today at noon to report on pledges received in the last two days. E. J. HENNING, chairman of the national campaign committee and Assistant Secretary of Labor, will speak. Pledges of $20,000 have been made so far by members of the faculty. A total of $120,000 has now been pledged. Of this amount more than $60,000 has been raised by the students. All workers in divisions 1, 2, 3 and 7 will report at the luncheons at the Ebbitt today, 'Thursday and Saturday. Divisions 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 will report at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. A subscription of $5,000 has been made by Christian HEURICH. Gifts of $1,000 each have been made by Mrs. W. C. BORDEN, Dr. Thomas A. GROOVER, Dr. Oscar B. HUNTER and William J. MALLORY. Subscriptions of $500 each have been made by Miss Katherine M. DABNEY and Robert N. HARPER. Among alumni and others who have made gifts or pledges of $300 are Alma BARKER, Franklin B. CLARK, Thomas B. CRISP, jr., Ulric S. J. DUNBAR, Mrs. W. C. GILBERT, Dr. Henry W. JAEGER, Margaret A. McMAHON, Capt. Hugh MILLER, Meador WRIGHT, Alden L. RUSSELL, Jessie C. McDONALD, Mrs. Francis S. BEHREND, Harry T. DOMER, John DONALDSON, Miss Freda D. EGBERT, James E. HOUGHTON, Miss Sidney Sophia HUNTER, Emma S. JACOBS, Dr. Clarence R. KELLY, George A. KING, Julia L. V. McCORD, A. L. MILLER, Miss Olive PRESCOTT, Minnie C. SQUIRE, C. H. STOCKTON, Miss Rhoda WATKINS, Grace V. WRIGHT, Elmer L. KAYSER, Philip F. LARNER and Miss Amy D. PUTNAM. A pledge of $250 has been made by Charles H. FRANZONI. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DC-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com