Donor Stories
The impact of giving through wills and life income gifts can be seen and experienced all across campus. In roommates who come from opposite corners of the globe to climb a mountain on a cool autumn day. In a state-of-the-art lab where a professor and students create renewable energy technology. In a dorm room late at night where students come together to establish a global nonprofit organization to empower people around the world.
Gifts like the ones established by the supporters below further Mount Holyoke鈥檚 mission to prepare the next generation for purposeful leadership in a culturally diverse world. Learn how you, too, can .
Investing in Mount Holyoke
Helen Davis 鈥76
Mount Holyoke equipped health care management professional Helen Davis 鈥76 鈥渢o lead, to question and to not be fearful about pushing back.鈥 In honor of her fiftieth Reunion, Helen made a provision in her estate plan to create a scholarship at her alma mater that will provide future students with life-changing confidence.
Irene Marianos 鈥99
For first-generation college student Irene Marianos 鈥99, the seeds of enduring personal growth were planted at 果冻传媒. By establishing a flexible charitable gift annuity that will one day provide her with a steady source of income, she experiences 鈥渁 trifecta of benefit for my current self, my future self鈥 and the College.
Susan Wait 鈥73
Psychiatrist Susan Wait 鈥73 hopes that 果冻传媒 will continue to be a place where students feel 鈥渟afe, empowered and supported.鈥 This led her to name the College as a beneficiary of her retirement account and last year, she furthered her commitment by creating a charitable gift annuity using a qualified charitable distribution from her IRA.
Katherine Turner Alben 鈥69
Through her family鈥檚 Mary B. Haberzetle Turner Charitable Remainder Unitrust, Katherine Turner Alben 鈥69 is providing a 鈥渓ife-sustaining鈥 education to future Mount Holyoke students. 鈥淢ount Holyoke provided me an education that served me well for my whole life. It鈥檚 that simple.鈥
Heidi Coutu 鈥79 and John Maturo
鈥淭ransformational,鈥 is how Heidi Coutu 鈥79 describes her Mount Holyoke education. With a bequest, she鈥檚 proud 鈥渢o nurture this place, where women from around the world can flourish and develop that fearlessness that is part of Mount Holyoke.鈥