TOWSON, Md. — A schoolteacher who gave $50 million to a small Pennsylvania liberal arts school is now additionally giving $55 million to Goucher College in Towson.
Goucher introduced at present that it is receiving its largest-ever gift, from Anica Donnan Rawnsley, Class of 1951.
It comes on the heels of a $10 million gift the faculty obtained final yr from Judy C. Lewent, Class of 1970, which was its largest ever from a residing alumna on the time.
Rawnsley’s gift will probably be used to “maintain scholarships and monetary assist for generations of scholars to come back,” the faculty mentioned, noting that 99 p.c of present college students get monetary assist.
After graduating from Goucher, Rawnsley served for 16 years as a Board of Trustees member and “spent a lot of her life dedicated to schooling and neighborhood service, working as an elementary college instructor early in her profession and volunteering for quite a few nonprofits all through her life.”
She gave $50 million final yr to Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, the place she turned the primary feminine trustee, in 1975.
Goucher College President Kent Devereaux mentioned in an announcement that this “transformational gift” will guarantee the faculty can fulfill its mission of “fairness, inclusivity, and educational excellence… for many years to come back.”
