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Middlebury College reaches $200

million campaign goal

$10 million gift allows College to meet

goal two months early

MIDDLEBURY, Vt.-Middlebury College

has received a $10 million donation to its Bicentennial campaign,

bringing the amount raised to date in the campaign to $200

million-the amount established as the campaign goal when the College

launched the fundraising drive in October of 1997.

College president John M. McCardell,

Jr. announced the news that the goal had been reached to College

fundraisers and trustees on Friday, May 3. The board of trustees was

on campus for its spring meeting.

McCardell said that reaching the goal

does not mean the campaign is over. “The campaign does not close its

books until June 30,” he said. “We must close as many commitments as

we can in the remaining time, and enlist all those who believe in

this College and its vision as supporters of this historic

effort.”

At the conclusion of its meeting on

Saturday, the board of trustees-which, as a group, contributed $50

million to the campaign-passed a resolution recognizing the $10

million donation and congratulating Vice President Will Melton and

his external affairs staff for meeting the goal. The resolution reads

in part, “These exemplary accomplishments give us every reason to

hope and expect that other impossible dreams will be similarly

realized at a pace and with an energy and depth of commitment that

will continue to astound only those who do not understand the vision

and the determination we possess, and, on this day, unanimously and

enthusiastically reaffirm.”

Referring to the $10 million gift

that enabled the campaign to reach its goal, McCardell said that the

desire of the donor to remain anonymous was in keeping with the style

of the entire campaign. Noting that the $200 million total was

reached through the combination of both large and small gifts,

McCardell said, “This goal has been reached one dollar at a time.

This has been from the very start an all-College campaign.”

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