Foundation Benefit Sets Record
in Net Proceeds
More
than 290 friends of Ferris State turned out for the fourth annual
Foundation for Excellence benefit Nov. 1 at the Amway Grand Plaza
Hotel in Grand Rapids. The benefit set a new record with net proceeds
of $66,000. The funds are used to support the Foundation for Excellence
Scholarship program, the Exceptional Merit Grants Award program
and other University endowments.
Attendees heard from two Foundation for Excellence
Scholarship recipients, Andrea McNab, a pre-Optometry major and
Dan Johnson, a pre-Pharmacy major, along with David Pilgrim, professor
of Sociology and curator of Ferris State’s Jim Crow Museum,
who represented seven recipients of the faculty and staff Exceptional
Merit Grant Awards.
Straight Ahead, a female jazz group from Detroit,
rocked the house with songs from well-known blues artists.
The University would like to express its gratitude
to the following businesses and individuals for their support:
Gold Star Sponsor: Ice Mountain Natural Spring Water.
Silver Star Sponsors: Carol and David Drake; Hubbell,
Roth & Clark, Inc.; Northwest Broadcasting, Inc.; Joyce and
William Sederburg.
Bronze Star Sponsors: A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.;
Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.; Barnes & Noble College Bookstores,
Inc.; Big Rapids Realty, Inc.; Capitol National Bank; The Christman
Company; Davison Dietsch & McCarthy, Inc.; Duce Simmons Associates;
Essilor Lenses; Fund Evaluation Group, LLC; Granger Group of Companies;
Gary Kadlec; Bernard N. Kilpatrick & Maestro Associates LLC;
Lerner Financial Group; Rhonda and Brian McDonald; Mika Meyers
Beckett & Jones PLC; Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone,
PLC; Randall Phelps and Universal Insurance Services, Inc.; Plante
& Moran, LLP; Barbara and Kenneth Reuther; Rogers Printing
Incorporated; Saga Communications, Inc.; Systems & Computer
Technology Corporation (SCT); Mary and Lynwood VandenBosch; Viron
Energy Services
Table Sponsors: Barnes & Noble College Bookstores,
Inc.; Jennifer and Richard Cochran; DTS Architects; Fifth Third
Bank; Granger Construction Company; Huntington National Bank;
Lacy, Linkfield & Cross; Neumann/Smith & Associates; Nancy
and Randall Phelps; Rockford Construction Company, Inc.
