ALUMNI ENDOWMENTS

Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi, in her role as Head of the School of Architecture over the past seven years, has worked with many alumni to establish a permament legacy at the School of Architecture through the vehicle of an endowed fund. Most alumni don’t know exactly what an endowed fund is - well, it is simply a fund that is established with the OSU Foundation. The fund retains the base principal while annually providing 4.25% of return to support the School of Architecture, in perpetituity. The fund never expires, and never “runs out” of money. Donors can continue to add to the principal as well, thereby increasing the annual program support the fund provides. And, anyone can contribute to any fund, at any time.

Endowed funds are established with a funding agreement created with the OSU Foundation. The agreement must note three things:

The exact name the donor wishes the fund to have;

The purpose of the fund (ie, for student scholarships?, etc); and,

The criteria that should guide the use of the fund. By OSU Foundation requirements, a minimum threshold of $25,000 is required to establish an endowed fund. This sum can be provided over five years, however. Gifts made to the OSU Foundation, by either an individual or a company, can have tax benefits; the OSUF is a 501(c) (3) charitable organization.

If you want to know more about developing an endowed fund with the OSU School of Architecture, please contact our OSU Foundation liaison Jill Johnson at jjohnson@osugiving.com - Thank you!

“I heard the stories of the previous AE professors, and benefitted from the scholarships which bore their names. When I learned that Professor O’Hara was retiring, I wanted to make certain that he too would forever be remembered among the most beloved AE faculty at the OSU School of Architecture.”

- Gene Brown (B ArcE 98), lead initiator of the O’Hara Fund

The endowed funds established and funded within the past seven years to support the students and/or the work of the faculty at the School of Architecture are:

George Baumiller Prize for work created in the urban design studio;

Rand and Jeanette Elliott Prize for the study of light in architecture;

The Patrick and Briar Glenn Prize for educational facility design;

The Moh’d and Suzanne Bilbeisi Prize for architectural sketching;

The Ken Koerner Travel Study Scholarship Fund;

The Alumni Travel Study Scholarship Fund;

The Duane and Robin Mass Travel Study Scholarship;

Piper’s Travel Study Scholarship (in memory of Piper Anderson);

The J. Kencil Willison Helping Hands Fund;

The O’Hara Family Architectural Engineering Program Fund;

The Kathleen Green Gardner Scholarship for sustainable design;

The Louis Bass Scholarship for AE students;

The Ken and Katherine Corbin Scholarship;

The Cole and Macy Griffin Scholarship;

The Pryce and Mallory Buckley Scholarship for AE students;

The Alan Brunken Scholarship;

The lwpb Scholarship in memory of Larry Stubblefield;

The Harris Foundation Scholarship;

The Hoffman Family Scholarship;

The M. Bradley Gaskins Scholarship;

The Mervin L. Snowden Scholarship for AE students.

These endowed funds represent more than $1.5M in program support from our alumni - wow! Several other fund agreements are also in place to be funded through an estate gift at a later date. If you want to know more about developing or documenting an estate plan with the OSU School of Architecture, please contact our OSU Foundation liaison Jill Johnson at jjohnson@osugiving.com - Thank you!