Fourteen reunion classes presented checks during Alumni Weekend in May. Gifts this year totaled more than $45 million with nine classes donating more than $1 million and two classes setting records.
The 25th reunion class set a new record with donations totaling over $12 million and the senior gift drive topped $50,000, also a record. The senior class also set a record with the number of donors participating at over 1,200.
Class
Reunion
Total Dollars*
Donors*
Class Projects
1939
65th
$302,918
144
Class of 1939 Endowed Scholarship Fund and Penn Fund
1944
60th
$1,222,743
138
Class of 1944 Endowed Scholarship Fund and Penn Fund
1949
55th
$1,373,029
448
Class of 1949 Endowed Scholarship Fund and Penn Fund
1954
50th
$2,731,264
443
Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Class of 1954 Library Teaching Seminar Room and Penn Fund
1959
45th
$8,958,219
438
Class of 1959 Endowed Scholarship
Class of 1959 Music Room in the Quad and Penn Fund
1964
40th
$4,149,248
468
Class of 1964 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Class of 1964 Group Study Suite (Van Pelt Dietrich Library) and Penn Fund
1969
35th
$4,367,471
621
Class of 1969 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Hill Field Landscape Project and Penn Fund
1974
30th
$3,148,200
665
The Class of 1974 Endowed Scholarship Fund
The Class of 1974 Study Seminar/Resource Room
Van Pelt Dietrich Library and Penn Fund
1979
25th
$12,480,780**
887
The Class of 1979 Endowed Scholarship Fund and Penn Fund
1984
20th
$4,876,539
737
The Penn Fund
1989
15th
$845,243
607
The Penn Fund
1994
10th
$528,310
558
The Penn Fund
1999
5th
$227,643
579
The Penn Fund
2004
Senior
$52,995**
1,284**
Café Garden Courtyard at Mark's Café
* Class Reunion Gifts and gifts to other areas of the University
** Record
Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 1, July 13, 2004
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
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July 13, 2004
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