Alumna Donates $123,600 in Scholarship Support

The School of Social Work has received two important new gifts from an alumna who wishes to remain anonymous:

• A gift of $100,000—the largest individual gift (other than bequests) that the School has ever received—will establish The Richard B. DeWolfe Scholarship Fund. This shall be a permanently endowed fund, the income of which shall provide annual scholarship awards, based on merit and financial need, to one or more eligible SSW graduate students, with a preference for current students or alumni from BU’s Metropolitan College. (Mr. DeWolfe, who is being honored with this gift, is a Boston University Trustee and graduate.)
• A second gift of $23,600 will support the full-time tuition of a current student for the 2008/09 academic year. This is the second year of the alumna’s tuition support for this student.

These gifts have boosted the year’s fundraising efforts to a significantly higher level than at the same time last year.