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CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE PHILANTHROPY FROM THE HEART AND MIND Emory retirees Ted and Cindy Runyon are using creative giving strategies to fund a visiting scholarship at Candler School of Theology. Philanthropy is an essential part of their faith. (page 3) DONOR SUPPORTED LUNG RESEARCH At age 12 Andrew McKelvey delivered eggs door to door for a dime-a-dozen profit and was hooked on business. His great success, said the late founder of Monster.com, carried a great obligation. (page 6) $881 ............... MILLION ............... PROGRESS AS OF NOV. 30, 2008 WINTER 2008 | EMORY UNIVERSITY VOLUME 1 | ISSUE 1 TOTAL GOAL $1.6 BILLION Sonny Deriso Announces Campaign Emory’s $1.6 Billion Goal (page 2)

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Page 1: Emory retirees Ted and Cindy delivered eggs door to door ... · Emory retirees Ted and Cindy Runyon are using creative giving strategies to fund a visiting scholarship at Candler

NEWSLETTER TITLE | FALL 2008 1

C A M P A I G N C H R O N I C L E

PHILANTHROPYFROM THE HEARTAND MINDEmory retirees Ted and Cindy Runyon are using creative giving strategies to fund a visiting scholarship at Candler School of Theology. Philanthropy is an essential part of their faith. (page 3)

DONOR suPPORTED LuNg REsEARcH At age 12 Andrew McKelvey delivered eggs door to door for a dime-a-dozen profit and was hooked on business. His great success, said the late founder of Monster.com, carried a great obligation. (page 6)

$881. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M I L L I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PROgREss As OF NOV. 30, 2008

WINTER 2008 | EMORY UNIVERSITY VOLUME 1 | ISSUE 1

TOTAL GOAL $1.6 BILLION

Sonny Deriso Announces Campaign Emory’s

$1.6 Billion Goal(page 2)

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InvestIng Courageously

Most of us probably don’t think of philanthropy as requiring courage. And yet the phrase “courageous leadership,” in the context of a university’s aspirations, invites us to think precisely of the possibilities for thoughtful and well-considered risks when it comes to giving.

Here’s an example of what I mean. Friends of Emory recall the great gift of $105 million from Robert and George Woodruff in 1979. What is less well known is Robert’s first gift to Emory in 1937—a relatively modest but ultimately daring gift that created a cancer center in the name of his maternal grandfather, Robert Winship. In the seven decades since, the Winship Cancer Institute has grown into the leader for cancer-related research and treatment in Georgia. In 1937, Emory had been a university for less than a quarter century and could hardly have guaranteed this outcome. It took courage for Robert Woodruff to risk investing in this young enterprise.

This fall Emory publicly launched a campaign that calls for similar courageous leadership. We are asking alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends of Emory to think about investing courageously in those places where Emory’s mission intersects with their own passions.

For some, that support might be for deep-brain stimulation to treat depression, where Emory has had unparalleled success but where nothing is guaranteed. For others, the Emory-Tibet Partnership may call on faithful investment to inform both Eastern and Western traditions in new ways. We believe our work is worth the challenges of cultural translation.For still others, the prospect of producing graduates who engage in society deeply and constructively invites investment in Emory’s innovative programs in University-community partnerships.

In being true to our commitments and our vision for Emory, we are called to “courageous philanthropy” as we work collaboratively for positive transformation in the world.

We must reward such courage with success by attracting the best minds, gathering the right tools, and creating the most effective campus for taking advantage of every opportunity. Along the way Emory needs many partners in courage to join in this exhilarating and risky enterprise.

Jim WagnerPresident, Emory University

CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE | WINTER 2008 2

Emory Announces $1.6 Billion Campaign Goal

Woodruff Foundation Funds New Emory Clinic

Since Robert Woodruff’s gift establishing the state’s first cancer clinic at Emory in 1937, the Woodruff name has been

closely associated with Emory’s advance into the front rank of American research universities. The Woodruff Foundation’s

recent $261.5 million gift will be used primarily toward constructing a new state-of-the-art Emory Clinic, which will

enable the best possible health care available anywhere. Over the past three years, the Woodruff Foundation also has

supported a doctorate of nursing practice program at Emory and renovation of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center

Administration Building. The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation has followed Robert Woodruff’s example, including

funding more than 230 scholarships across the University since 2005.

A Family Legacy of GivingCampaign Emory gifts of more than $51.5 million from the O.

Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins will be felt on

campus and around the world. The Rollins School of Public Health

(RSPH) is the primary recipient of the Rollins family’s philanthropy,

which is making possible construction of the new Claudia Nance

Rollins Building. Gifts also will establish the Gary and Ruth Rollins

Strategic Plan Fund in Health Sciences and provide program support

for leadership initiatives in the RSPH, program and collections

support for the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and ongoing support

to the Rollins Pavilion at Emory University Hospital.

Boosting Emory Advantage

Wendell 80C and Mary Laney Reilly 81C 00T support Emory in

significant ways. Wendell Reilly chairs the campaign for Emory

College and serves on the Emory Board of Trustees. Mary Reilly

chairs the Committee of 100 for Candler School of Theology.

The couple has invested more than $6 million in scholarships,

Emory’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and Candler. The Reillys’

campaign gift to Emory Advantage provides scholarship support

for undergraduates from middle- and lower-income families. It

strengthens the economic diversity of the student body and fosters a

community that better reflects the world outside the campus gates.

F o R M o R E o N T H E S E S To R I E S , v I S I T W W W. C A M PA I G N . E M o R y. E d U / N E W S / d o N o R S . P H P

“Emory will offer investors the sort of sure returns and dividends that cannot be obtained in the financial markets.”Emory President Jim Wagner

In almost the same breath, Emory trustee Deriso 68C 72L revealed that the

University is already more than halfway to its goal after an advance phase that

raised more than $838 million since September 2005.

Campaign Emory is designed to strengthen Emory’s already outstanding faculty and

students, create and bolster innovative programs, and build facilities to provide the

best educational and research environment possible.

“There have been many defining moments in Emory’s history when the University

had the courage to step forward, sometimes with no certainty that the next step

would land on solid ground,” Emory President Jim Wagner told some 500 alumni

and friends of the University. “Tonight we celebrate another such moment—to keep

moving forward with the aid of Campaign Emory.”

“We know who we are and we know what we want to become. We also know

what got us to where we are today. But that will not be sufficient to get us to where

we want to go,” he said. “Through Campaign Emory we are inviting our friends,

trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, and other members of the Emory family to trust

that our goals are their noble goals and that our impressive track record speaks

powerfully to what we can accomplish together.”

Campaign Emory will help Emory put knowledge to work. When the campaign

ends in 2012, Emory will have a new clinic and educational facilities that will

encourage students to learn, faculty to teach, scientists to research, and health care

professionals to set new standards for health and healing.

“What drives us is the urgency to share what we know, to care for communities at

home and abroad, to connect with others and with our environment, to discover

new solutions to difficult problems, and to give something back to a world that has

given us so much,” Wagner said. “Emory seeks investment partners who believe in

our vision and want to leave a powerful legacy, people who care about the world

and know that they can make a profound difference by supporting Emory.”

Campaign priorities for every school, unit, and program of the University support

the Emory strategic plan and its themes: strengthening faculty distinction, preparing

engaged students, creating community and engaging society, confronting the

human condition, and exploring new frontiers in science and technology. “Big

words, big plans that will have a very real impact on our students and the world,”

said Johnson 65C.

By providing the means for Emory’s faculty, students, and programs to thrive,

the campaign is expected to transform every school and unit of the University. In

addition to fund-raising, Campaign Emory’s challenge is to increase awareness of

the education, research, and action already under way. Although Emory is now

counted among the top tier of American higher education institutions and is highly

regarded in the South and Northeast, the University still has a long way to go in

becoming as well-known around the country as many of its peers.

During the evening, Emory Alumni Board President Crystal Edmonson 95C

highlighted stories of gifts that have helped bring Emory to its current standing

and have launched Campaign Emory in spectacular fashion. (See stories on

page 1.) Donors were recognized for the impact of their support—from funding

groundbreaking cancer research and scholarships to legal services for Hurricane

Katrina victims.

“This is a critical time in Emory’s history for your stories to begin,” Wagner

said. “Not critical in the sense that we can’t pay our bills. You have only to look

around Emory—at the construction under way, the recruitments, our new library

collections—to know that we are fortunate, indeed blessed, to have had the private

support that has made Emory what it is today.”

The efforts of many Emory faculty, staff, and alumni leaders have gone into the

strategic plan driving the campaign. “Emory is focusing on how we can leverage

the things we are good at,” said Edmonson.

Campaign Emory’s $1.6 billion goal is daring, Wagner said, but the University’s

underlying goals are even more grand—the education of leaders who will face

complex challenges, the work of researchers who will fight disease and improve

health around the world, and the building of intellectual capital by faculty who

will create new knowledge.

For more gala coverage, including videos, visit www.campaign.emory.edu/news

and click on Multimedia.

During a September gala filled with recurring themes of courage, vision, and transformation,

Volunteer Chair Sonny Deriso and Board of Trustees Chair Ben Johnson announced the most

ambitious fund-raising effort in the University’s history—$1.6 billion over the next four years.

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From left, Gary Rollins, Fred Sanfilippo, Jim Wagner, Ben Johnson, Jim Curran, Amy Rollins Kreisler, Randall Rollins, and Michael Johns break ground for the new Claudia Nance Rollins Building.

Wendell and Mary Laney Reilly, who met as English majors in Emory College, have a long history of community service.

The new Emory Clinic will provide a streamlined, seamless experience for patients.

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Bevel Jones 46C 49T and Pete Correll

Linda Hubert 64G 69PhD, Shelby Wilkes, and Jettie Burnett

Nell Hodgson Watt

Mary and John Brock Jim 61B and Anne Carson 61C

Sonny Deriso 68C 72L and Ben Johnson 65C

Amy Rollins Kreisler

Madhu and Jagdish Sheth

Ben 64C 67L and Nancy Shapiro Pamela Pryor 69C 70G

Bonnie Speed, Mrs. Michael C. Carlos, Mary Noras, and Seaborn Jones

Jimmy 55C and Betty Williams with Jim Wagner

Neal Purcell 61OX 63BRobbie Brown 07C with John and Laura Hardman 67CMack Stokes

For a slideshow of photos, visit www.campaign.emory.edu/news and click on Multimedia.

Paul Sutej and Maria PeningerDiane Savage 71C andCaitlin Savage 11C

Walker Ray 62C 65M 68MR and David Allen 67C 70D 75DR

Ellen 63C 87B and Wayne Bailey

Gus and Jan Bennett

Fred Sanfilippo and Dennis LiottaMaggie and Arch Stokes 67C 70L Tom and Mary Lou Jewell

Bill Brosius 85B andDusty Porter 85C

Teresa Rivero 85OX 87B 93MPH and Greg Vaughn 87C Becky and Sid Yarbrough 59C 63M 64MR 66MR 70MR

Paul McLarty 63C 66L, Ken Murrah 55C 58L, and Pete McTier 61B

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CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE | WINTER 2008 43

CAMPUS LIFE: $5 MILLIoN GoALGifts strengthen athletics, endow NCAA division III teams, and support the Barkley Forum, Emory’s nationally recognized debate program. They enhance career services; create LeaderShape Emory, a campus-wide student leadership initiative; and expand volunteer Emory, a student-run department that logs nearly 7,000 hours of community service each year.

CANdLER SCHooL oF THEoLoGy: $60 MILLIoN GoALGifts fund facilities for teaching, research, community life, library holdings, and spiritual formation. They create the Candler Advantage Program, designed to reduce student debt with stipends for contextual education placements; add endowed professorships; launch a renewed program in lifelong learning; and enhance programs.

EMoRy CoLLEGE oF ARTS ANd SCIENCES: $110 MILLIoN GoALSupport creates facilities for interdisciplinary research and learning, helps recruit and retain the finest faculty, and offers comprehensive programs and curricula for every intellectual interest. It funds scholarship and financial aid programs and strengthens student support.

EMoRy GRAdUATE SCHooL: $10 MILLIoN GoALGifts fund the Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies, a new space for interdisciplinary scholarship. They provide student fellowships to help attract the brightest minds in higher education and strengthen professional development, which aids graduate students as they enter their fields.

EMoRy HoSPITALS / EMoRy CLINIC: $305 MILLIoN GoALGifts enable the highest level of service while advancing medical knowledge. They help rebuild The Emory Clinic, expand programs at Emory Hospitals, endow directorships for physicians who oversee services and provide leadership, and fund staff training at all levels.

EMoRy LAW: $35 MILLIoN GoALSupport helps increase student scholarships and strengthenstudent programs, publications,and organizations. Gifts also help increase the number of faculty members, reduce class sizes, create endowed professorships to attract renowned legal scholars, build a growing body of scholarship, andfund much needed updates to classroom technology.

EMoRy LIBRARIES:$27 MILLIoN GoALSupport for Emory Libraries helps build a new home for the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), housing all of Emory’s preeminent collections under one roof. Campaign gifts also fund key acquisitions that build on internationally known collections, strengthen MARBL’s endowment, and enable continued expansion of digital innovations.

EMoRy SCHooL oF MEdICINE: $500 MILLIoN GoALGifts endow professorships and chairs to help retain and recruit eminent faculty, and they help build advanced facilities where researchers will translate medical discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside. Support also funds scholarships to attract the highest achievers and free them from overwhelming education debt.

GoIzUETA BUSINESS SCHooL: $75 MILLIoN GoALGifts generate resources to invest in faculty leadership positions, develop existing young faculty, fund and build a leadership institute, and add scholarship support to target the best and brightest students of any means. Gifts strengthen programs in leadership development, entrepreneurship, and ethics.

MICHAEL C. CARLoS MUSEUM: $35 MILLIoN GoALGifts expand major collection areas, support the teaching laboratory and conservation center, and fund special exhibitions. Support also increases learning opportunities for families, builds relationships with area schools, and enables collaborations with Emory’s academic departments and community volunteer programs.

NELL HodGSoN WoodRUFF SCHooL oF NURSING: $20 MILLIoN GoALGifts fund scholarships, strengthen service learning, help create a new interdisciplinary program in predictive health, and provide undergraduate honors fellowships in sleep, pain, and depression. Gifts also fund visiting scholars, create endowed chairs, and support service trips and overseas collaboration for students and faculty.

oxFoRd CoLLEGE: $40 MILLIoN GoALScholarship gifts help maintain a need-blind admissions policy, while funding for endowed chairs attracts exceptional faculty who love teaching and mentoring. Gifts help build a new Library and Academic Commons, which will be central to academic excellence and collaboration, and a Science and Mathematics Building to strengthen oxford’s teaching mission.

RoLLINS SCHooL oF PUBLIC HEALTH: $150 MILLIoN GoALGifts endow professorships and chairs, fund scholarships to ensure the brightest public health students have access to an Emory education, and support research. Campaign support also helps secure research grants, target public health threats, and fund fellowships, doctoral programs, and disease-specific programs.

yERkES NATIoNAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER: $30 MILLIoN GoALGifts fund construction and renovation of facilities, help recruit world-renowned researchers and fund their innovative discovery, expand yerkes’ community outreach efforts, and build programs in genetics, vaccines, stroke intervention, and aging-related and neurodegenerative diseases.

Giving Supports University Programs and People

SINCE THE ADVANCE PHASE BEGAN IN 2005, CAMPAIGN DONORS HAVE GIVEN MORE THAN $180 MILLION

for business education, law, athletics, campus life, scholarships, the humanities, arts and sciences, the libraries, Emory Graduate

School, and the Carlos Museum. In honor of President Emeritus James T. Laney, who was also a U.S. ambassador to South Korea,

Emory emeritus trustee Brad Currey has created a scholarship program that gives preference to Korean students with financial

need. Alumna Deborah Jackson 85C is supporting Emory athletics with an endowed gift to honor retired professor, coach, and

athletics director Clyde “Doc” Partin Sr. Rob 72L and Mary Henrikson have endowed a scholarship for Emory Law. Business

leader Richard Kessler has made a gift for phase II of Candler School of Theology’s building project and to support the Richard C.

Kessler Reformation Collection in Pitts Theology Library.

The Goizueta Foundation and longtime Emory friend Olga C. Goizueta are supporting Goizueta Business School, which is named

for her late husband, Roberto Goizueta, former Coca-Cola chairman and CEO. The Coca-Cola Foundation has committed

$3 million to support business and nursing students qualifying for Emory Advantage—an undergraduate financial aid program

for lower- and middle-income students—and to fund sustainability projects in Atlanta. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has

given nearly $2.5 million to fund programs in Emory College, Emory Graduate School, Emory Libraries, the Carlos Museum,

and Emory’s James Weldon Johnson Institute. The Tull Charitable Foundation continues its generous support of the J. Pollard

Turman Alumni Service Award and has given $1 million to endow a finance professorship in Goizueta Business School honoring

the foundation’s former board chairman John McIntyre 51B.

s C h o o l s a n d u n I t s

d I G E S T s C h o o l s a n d u n I t s

d I G E S T“We are asking you to invest

in the possibility of what Emory

can do.”

The Psychology Building will house Emory’s Psychological Center, which serves children, adolescents, and adults in the Atlanta community and trains advanced doctoral candidates in clinical psychology. Emory’s clinical program is ranked among the top 20 in the United States.

A science building is a top priority of Oxford College’s strategic plan. The new Science and Mathematics Building will provide more than 72,000 square feet of labs, classrooms, study spaces, and an imaging theater.

In the heart of Emory’s campus will stand the University’s religion corridor, including Candler School of Theology’s classrooms and faculty offices, the Wesley Teaching Chapel, a new home for the Pitts Theology Library, and Cannon Chapel.

Gift Planning Offers Tax Benefits and Income Flexibility for Donors

Health Sciences Halfway to Fund-raising Goal

Campaign Emory offers creative giving strategies that benefit

donors financially while accomplishing their philanthropic goals.

These planned gifts help reduce taxes and can provide donors

with income for life.

Ted Runyon and his wife, Cindy 70C 79G, are using charitable

gift annuities to fund a visiting scholarship at Candler School of

Theology. He is a Candler emeritus professor of theology, and she

is retired from a 24-year career at Emory’s Pitts Theology Library.

Gift annuities are simple to establish, provide the Runyons a fixed

income for life, and offer attractive rates of return.

Staffed by experts in charitable giving and financial strategies,

Emory’s Office of Gift Planning helps donors find the best way

to enhance their personal well-being while following their hearts

through philanthropy. For details, call 404.727.8875 or visit

www.campaign.emory.edu/ways-to-give and click on Gift Planning.

Private investments are already making a difference in people’s

lives, as the Woodruff Health Sciences Center passes the halfway

mark to its record-setting fund-raising goal of $1.07 billion.

Since 2005, the School of Medicine has received generous support

from donors such as J. Rex Fuqua, president and CEO of Fuqua

Capital Corp., and Mary and John F. Brock III, chairman and

CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, who have invested in innovative

efforts to treat depression. With the Georgia Research Alliance

and the Georgia Cancer Coalition, the Brocks also support

cancer nanotechnology research, a new approach to treating

cancer. A $12 million Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation gift

is advancing promising islet cell research to treat diabetes.

The Rollins School of Public Health received $50 million from

the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins for a

new building (see page 1). Trial lawyer Richard Hubert 60L gave

$10 million to name the Hubert Department of Global Health,

endow a chair, and increase scholarship support. Gifts from

faculty member Gene Gangarosa and his wife, Rose, are helping

bring together the best Emory minds to find solutions for more

than 1 billion people who lack safe water.

A priority of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is

alleviating the nursing shortage. The Helene Fuld Health Trust

has created the Fuld Fellowship Endowment, which allows

students with degrees in other fields to train for a nursing career

in service to vulnerable populations.

The Woodruff Foundation is supporting a new Emory Clinic

(see page 2). Judy Starkey, founder of Chamberlin Edmonds, has

helped create an Emory Hospitals program in palliative care for

patients with chronic and terminal illnesses.

Informed supporters such as dermatologist Bill Dobes 65C 69M

70MR help propel discovery at Yerkes National Primate Research

Center. He chairs the Yerkes campaign and supports research to

treat, prevent, and cure devastating diseases.

SONNY DERISO, CAMPAIGN EMORY CHAIRGifts to Campaign Emory have boosted research efforts.

Gifts will build a new home for the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. The total goal for Emory’s non-health-sciences areas is $530 milion.

For more information on each school and unit, visit www.campaign.emory.edu and click on Schools and Units.

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CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE | WINTER 2008 65

C a M Pa I g n l e a d e r s h I P

Campaign emory ChairWalter M. “Sonny” deriso 68C 72L

CabinetEllen A. Bailey 63C 87BChair, University Programs

Russell R. French 67CChair, Leadership Prospects Committee

M. douglas IvesterChair, Health Sciences

Teresa M. Rivero 85ox 87B 93MPH Chair, Alumni Engagement

school and unit Chairsdavid Allen 67C 70d 75dRBeverly Allen 68C Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Courtlandt B. AultJames H. MorgensMichael C. Carlos Museum

James B. Carson Jr. 61B Goizueta Business School

C. Edward Cloaninger III 91ox 93Cdusty Porter 85C Emory Alumni Board

A. d. “Pete” and Ada Lee CorrellEmory School of Medicine

William L. dobes Jr. 65C 69M 70MR yerkes National Primate Research Center

J. Joseph Edwards 54ox 56B 58B Henry Mann 62ox 64Coxford College

James R. Gavin III 70PhdEmory Graduate School

Laura Hardman 67CCampus Life

Lawrence P. and Ann klamon 65C 76LRollins School of Public Health

John F. Morgan 67ox 69BEmory Libraries

Philip S. Reese 66C 76B 76LChilton d. varner 76LEmory Law

Wendell S. Reilly 80CEmory College of Arts and Sciences

Bishop B. Michael Watson 74TCandler School of Theology

A B O U T T H EC A M P A I G N

Make a dIfferenCe

When Campaign Emory was launched publicly, we accelerated the engine that is driving Emory to become the University it is destined to become. Through Campaign Emory, the University seeks to fuel the priorities mapped out in Emory’s strategic plan.

over the past three years, Emory’s leaders have evaluated our strengths, defined our aspirations, and focused our programs to achieve those goals.

By strengthening Emory’s assets, we will retain and recruit renowned faculty who will create new knowledge and teach the next generation of leaders. By providing the means for more outstanding students to attend Emory, we seek to equip the best and brightest with the tools they need to be those future leaders.

By supporting sustainable practices, celebrating the arts, and embracing true diversity in race, gender, religion, and thought, we are opening the eyes and minds of our students to a global perspective.

By improving the lives and health of those in need, we strengthen ourselves as well. By exploring new frontiers in science and technology, we are unraveling the mysteries of human health and human nature.

Campaign Emory will accelerate our momentum toward those goals, partnering with you through your philanthropy. A gift to Emory is an investment in the future, not charity.

According to Webster’s dictionary, charity is aid given to those in need, while philanthropy is an active effort to promote human welfare. By no means is Emory disadvantaged, but we are actively engaged in improving the human condition.

We understand that you want to make a difference with your gift. Creating an endowment to fund promising research, providing a scholarship to a deserving student, or establishing a faculty chair are some of the ways you can help Emory make that difference.

Thank you for joining us in our ambitious effort to ensure that Emory University continues to be a place where questions are answered, solutions are found, and students are enlightened.

Susan Cruse, Senior vice President, development and Alumni Relations

Breathing New Life into Lung Disease Research

At age 12 Andrew McKelvey delivered eggs door to door for a dime-a-dozen profit and

was hooked on business. Eventually he founded online job-search giant Monster.com.

His great success, he said, carried a great obligation.

In 1967 McKelvey was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a debilitating disease that scars the

lungs and reduces their capacity. He credited Emory’s Clinton Lawrence for improving

the quality of his life through treatment based on the pulmonologist’s research into

inflammatory lung diseases.

Over the past 15 years, the late businessman designated more than $25 million to

support the work of the McKelvey Center for Lung Transplantation and Pulmonary

Vascular Diseases at Emory. With his transformational gifts, Emory recruited a dozen

star faculty, built new laboratories that enabled groundbreaking research, advanced

treatment of patients with lung disease, and more than tripled the number of lifesaving

lung transplants. Seed money allowed young researchers to pursue new approaches to

lung disease. Emory now is involved in multicenter clinical trials of new lung transplant

drugs and pulmonary hypertension treatment.

“His support has been just remarkable for its impact,” says Lawrence, McKelvey’s

friend and medical adviser for more than 25 years. “These resources have been a real

catalyst and helped us expand dramatically.”

Today in Georgia’s first and only lung transplant program, Emory specialists are

learning to better predict, treat, and prevent all forms of lung disease. The center’s

progress has inspired others to step forward and breathe new life into lung disease

research, which has potential to improve the lives of some 35 million Americans. For

more information, call 404.727.8326.

Monster.com founder Andrew McKelvey gave more than $25 million to Emory. Read more online: www.campaign.emory.edu/medicine. Click on Breathing New Life into Lung Disease Research.

Campaign Emory, a $1.6 fund-raising endeavor, combines

private support and the University’s people, places, and programs

to make a powerful contribution to the world community. The

campaign will transform every school and unit of the University.

Investments in the campaign fuel efforts to address fundamental

challenges: improving health, gaining ground in science and

technology, resolving conflict, harnessing the power of the arts,

and educating the heart and mind. Campaign Emory also builds

awareness of Emory’s excellence in education, research, and

action. Whether you give annually, include Emory in your estate

plans, or create an endowment, your gift has great impact.

C A M P A I G N C H R O N I C L E s ta f f

executive director development CommunicationsJason Peevy

editorial staffTerri McIntosh (editor), Marlene Goldman, Maria Lameiras

designerHeather Putnam

PhotographyTony Benner, Ann Borden, Annemarie Poyo Furlong, Wilford Harewood, kay Hinton, Bryan Meltz, Jon Rou

Campaign Chronicle is a publicationof development Communicationsat Emory University.

For editorial questions, contact [email protected] 404.727.9847.

To contact a fund-raiser, visit www.campaign.emory.edu/contactand click on development officers.

Visit Campaign Emory on the Web

C A M P A I G N P R O G R E S S*

A S O F N O V E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 0 8

To serve Emory’s growing community of alumni, faculty, staff, patients, and other friends, Campaign

Emory has developed a Web site, www.campaign.emory.edu. There you’ll find a running total of gifts,

features about donors and the impact of their investments, a broad range of giving opportunities, and

links to priorities for every school and unit of the University. No matter what your interest or goal,

www.campaign.emory.edu will keep you informed.

C A M P U S L I F E Goal: $5 million

C A N D L E R S C H O O L O F T H E O L O G Y Goal: $60 million

E M O RY C O L L E G E O F A RT S A N D S C I E N C E S Goal: $110 million

E M O RY G R A D U AT E S C H O O L Goal: $10 million

E M O RY H O S P I TA L S A N D T H E E M O RY C L I N I C Goal: $305 million

E M O RY L I B R A R I E S Goal: $27 million

E M O RY S C H O O L O F L AW Goal: $35 million

E M O RY S C H O O L O F M E D I C I N E Goal: $500 million

G O I Z U E TA B U S I N E S S S C H O O L Goal: $75 million

M I C H A E L C . C A R L O S M U S E U M Goal: $35 million

N E L L H O D G S O N W O O D R U F F S C H O O L O F N U R S I N G Goal: $20 million

O X F O R D C O L L E G E O F E M O RY U N I V E R S I T Y Goal: $40 million

R O L L I N S S C H O O L O F P U B L I C H E A LT H Goal: $150 million

Y E R K E S N AT I O N A L P R I M AT E R E S E A R C H C E N T E R Goal: $30 million

* Progress chart does not include goals for general university and Woodruff Health Sciences Center initiatives.

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Woodruff gift to build new Emory Clinic (page 1)

Alumni couple boosts Emory Advantage (page 1)

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