Success Stories

Success Stories

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  From SOC to Fox News, and Back Again

  FOX News' Tony Perkins, SOC/BA '81, and his wife, Rhonda, made a generous $100,000 gift to name the Tony and Rhonda Perkins Classroom.
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  Art Professor Establishes Award for Students to Travel, Explore

  To Carol Bird Ravenal, PhD, travel and study are intertwined.  A professor emerita of art at the College of Arts and Sciences, she attributes her painting success to a college trip to Scandinavia and wanted to give art students the same opportunity.
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  President of APCO Worldwide Gives $100,000 gift for SPA Scholarship

  Margery Kraus, SPA/BA '67, SPA/MPA '71, president and CEO of APCO Worldwide and a member of the Board of Trustees, established the Margery Kraus Public Affairs and Advocacy Endowed Scholarship Fund.
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  Alumni Award Winner Rallies
  Brothers, Raises Funds

  2008 Alumni Recognition Award winner, Ronald Boots Nissenbaum, KSB/BS '68, has a long history of bringing people together and rallying them for a good cause.
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  Alumni Couple Makes AU a Family Tradition

  On weekends, you can always find season ticket holders Mark CAS/BA ’76 and Terri Laks CAS/BS ’81 in the bleachers at Bender for home games, cheering on the Eagles; Mark and Terri are generous AU supporters.
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  AU Parent Supports the Arts While Supporting AU

  “Volunteering at AU was a great way for me to be involved in the life of the university without being involved in my daughter’s life at the university,” says Shelley Brodecki, mother of Ariella Brodecki, CAS/BA '08.