Mills Matters Big gifts create big opportunities at Mills Mills College gratefully acknowledges
Linda K. Jesmok ’68 is establishing
the following donors for gifts, grants,
the Kraft-Jesmok Endowed Scholarship
and pledges of $50,000 or more received
to provide financial aid to students
from July 1 to December 31, 2019.
studying in the liberal arts, including
The Fletcher Jones Foundation gifted the College with a five-year grant
the Yellow Chair Foundation aims
program to help transfer students make
to empower educators to improve
successful transitions to Mills through
learning outcomes through teacher-led,
emphasizing college-level skills,
collaborative inquiry. have pledged to underwrite faculty
informational and financial literacy.
development with a generous gift, enabling professors to stay nimble in
Foundation has provided a two-
the constantly changing environment
year grant to support the Creating
of higher education.
Conditions for Adult Learning Project,
The Taube Foundation for Jewish
which develops partnerships with
Life & Culture is supporting the Taube
school districts to create programs
Family Student Scholarship to make
for adult learning.
a Mills education accessible to more
The ongoing campus optimization
students.
project, which aims to locate new
The Bernard E. and Alba Witkin
sources of revenue for the College
Charitable Foundation is financing
from existing physical spaces, received
Mills College Children’s School
big boosts from Kathleen J. Burke
Preschool and Infant Care Program
and Ralph Davis, Michele Van
assistantships to provide professional
Blitter-Kirsch ’83 and Steven Kirsch,
development for those teaching young
and Leslie Decker ’79 and Stephen
children, as well as scholarships for the
Rimmer.
Children’s School.
Kathleen J. Burke and Ralph Davis
Kathleen Terman is establishing
also supported the Mills Community
the Sally Briscoe Terman Endowed
Farm, bolstering the farm’s role as a
Memorial Scholarship, in honor of her
living lab for students and a hub for
late mother, to sponsor students who
food justice.
are interested in studying the fine arts,
Barbara Wolfe ’65 has made a donation to the Mills branding
especially music. The estate of Josephine Malti ’62
initiative, which will refresh the look
is establishing the Josephine Malti
of the College and help launch new
Endowed Scholarship for undergraduate
admissions efforts.
students majoring in the liberal arts and
Mills’ Greatest Need benefited from
the Josephine Malti Music Fellowship
the generosity of Catherine Coates ’65,
for female-identifying students in
Mei Kwong ’70 and Laurence Franklin,
graduate music programs.
and Ann S. Wolff ’42.
M I L L S Q U A R T E R LY
Karen May ’86 and Keith Shultz
mentoring, and proficiency in The William and Flora Hewlett
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With a Mills Teacher Scholars grant,
for M POWERed for Transfer, a summer
planning for student success, peer
The typical autumn weather blew onto the Mills campus in October and November, bringing with it howling winds and several days of cancelled classes thanks to threatened power shut-offs by PG&E. (The shut-offs never materialized.) But it did make way for an unusual partnership— staffers at the Oakland Zoo visited campus to salvage branches and leaves from an acacia tree that was brought down by winds near Reinhardt Alumnae House. While the tree is no longer part of the College’s ecosystem, it did provide a tasty meal for the zoo’s giraffes.
humanities and fine arts.
