[{"id":413,"date":"2022-12-12T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=413"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:23:30","slug":"ella-nash-newsletter-fall-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2022\/12\/12\/ella-nash-newsletter-fall-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Nash Newsletter Fall 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif;\">Please enjoy this semi-annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/alleghenycollege\/docs\/ellanash-fall2022_archive1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ella Nash Society Newsletter\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif;\">that celebrates and encourages women\u2019s philanthropy at Allegheny and beyond. In this issue, we discuss how we can all bring out our inner philanthropists. We also profile the remarkable story of Sarah Cochran, the coal queen\u00a0behind Cochran Hall.\u00a0Lastly, we meet Meredythe Baird\u00a0&#8217;23, an inspiring example of your philanthropy in action. We hope you enjoy this issue!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enjoy this semi-annual Ella Nash Society Newsletter\u00a0that celebrates and encourages women\u2019s philanthropy at Allegheny and beyond. In this issue, we discuss how we can all bring out our inner philanthropists. We also profile the remarkable story of Sarah Cochran, the coal queen\u00a0behind Cochran Hall.\u00a0Lastly, we meet Meredythe Baird\u00a0&#8217;23, an inspiring example of your philanthropy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2022\/12\/12\/ella-nash-newsletter-fall-2022\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Ella Nash Newsletter Fall 2022&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":409,"date":"2021-11-03T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=409"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:55:15","slug":"ella-nash-newsletter-summer-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2021\/11\/03\/ella-nash-newsletter-summer-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Nash Newsletter Summer 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please enjoy this semi-annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/alleghenycollege\/docs\/alleghenycollege-ellanash-summer2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ella Nash Society Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0that celebrates and encourages women\u2019s philanthropy at Allegheny and beyond. In this issue, we feature giving circles \u2013 groups of friends and associates who pool their charitable gift dollars for more significant impact \u2013 and cheer the \u201cGirl Power\u201d of a group of alumnae from the Class of 1991 (+1) who did just that. We also profile the remarkable Jennifer Daurora \u201999, who reminds us that philanthropy \u201cis not a million-dollar word!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enjoy this semi-annual\u00a0Ella Nash Society Newsletter\u00a0that celebrates and encourages women\u2019s philanthropy at Allegheny and beyond. In this issue, we feature giving circles \u2013 groups of friends and associates who pool their charitable gift dollars for more significant impact \u2013 and cheer the \u201cGirl Power\u201d of a group of alumnae from the Class of 1991 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2021\/11\/03\/ella-nash-newsletter-summer-2021\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Ella Nash Newsletter Summer 2021&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":374,"date":"2020-12-02T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=374"},"modified":"2021-01-22T20:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:33:53","slug":"scholars-investigate-women-as-worldwide-changemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/scholars-investigate-women-as-worldwide-changemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars Investigate Women as Worldwide Changemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/12\/GCS2020YearGraphic-e1606921893218.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-379 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/12\/GCS2020YearGraphic-e1606921893218-300x263.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/GCS2020YearGraphic-e1606921893218-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/GCS2020YearGraphic-e1606921893218-768x674.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/GCS2020YearGraphic-e1606921893218-1024x899.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/GCS2020YearGraphic-e1606921893218.png 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Twenty Allegheny students from around the globe will spend the next four years exploring the challenges and rewards of empowering women, both in the U.S. and abroad, in their role as the fourth and newest cohort in the College\u2019s Global Citizen Scholars (GCS) program.<\/p>\n<p>The competitive program, to which incoming first-year students must apply, provides scholars with unique learning opportunities in civic engagement, global learning, and U.S. diversity with a combination of intensive advising, coursework, and a range of high-impact experiences including study abroad. The GCS program was established in 2015 with initial funding from Linda Allison Palmiero \u201966 and her husband, Joe. The first cohort graduated in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Two faculty co-leaders jointly develop their planned curriculum and activities under a relevant global theme of their choosing that guides each group\u2019s study and experiences. They, too, compete for the opportunity to lead a cohort. First-year scholars enroll in an introductory seminar and \u2014 in a year without COVID-19 restrictions \u2014 attend a mandatory overnight retreat with fellow participants, faculty, and administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars build knowledge and fieldwork skills in year two through coursework and extracurricular activities, including excursions to related organizations and locales. They study away, separately, during their junior year, and then as seniors, complete a legacy project and serve as mentors to newer cohorts. Group meetings, readings, writing, and other special projects round out the program. Many use their experiences to inform their senior comprehensive projects.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"gold mb30 mt30\">\n<p class=\"profilequote large\">\u201cWe want students \u2014 young men and women \u2014 to see how women in the pursuit of economic, political, and social justice have been incredible changemakers, using unconventional means of accessing power to inspire and advocate not just for themselves, but for their communities, everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"gold mb30 mt30\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gcs2020.com\">\u201cEmpowering Women Worldwide\u201d<\/a> is the academic and experiential theme under which this group will study and travel with Professors Ishita Sinha Roy and Caryl Waggett. The cohort is rich in religious and cultural diversity, with students hailing from China, Ethiopia, Nepal, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Their GCS experiences will be rooted in social justice and global health. Dr. Sinha Roy teaches media studies, with a focus on national and global identity politics, in the Department of Communication, Film, and Theatre. Dr. Waggett teaches environmental health within the College\u2019s Global Health Studies Program, and she has helped to establish international internships in India and Moldova for Allegheny students. Both women conduct research with students nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The theme supports the objectives of the United Nations\u2019 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, one of which \u201cstresses that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world,\u201d said Dr. Sinha Roy. \u201cWe want students \u2014 young men and women \u2014 to see how women in the pursuit of economic, political, and social justice have been incredible changemakers, using unconventional means of accessing power to inspire and advocate not just for themselves, but for their communities, everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<a target=\"_self\" class=\"button button-lg normal yellow \" href=\"https:\/\/www.gcs2020.com\/\">Visit Empowering Women Worldwide website<\/a>\n<div class=\"box box-tip box-align-\"><div class=\"h4-title\"><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><span>Supporting the Program<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Interested in helping to support a Global Citizen Scholar or learning more about the program? For more details, contact Melissa Mencotti at giftplan@allegheny.edu or by telephone at (814) 332-5912 or toll-free (866) 332-3853.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty Allegheny students from around the globe will spend the next four years exploring the challenges and rewards of empowering women, both in the U.S. and abroad, in their role as the fourth and newest cohort in the College\u2019s Global Citizen Scholars (GCS) program. The competitive program, to which incoming first-year students must apply, provides [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/scholars-investigate-women-as-worldwide-changemakers\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Scholars Investigate Women as Worldwide Changemakers&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":397,"date":"2020-12-02T20:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=397"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:04:00","slug":"allegheny-all-american-becomes-u-k-philanthropy-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/allegheny-all-american-becomes-u-k-philanthropy-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny All-American Becomes U.K. Philanthropy Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-387\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/12\/Randi_Weaver_headshot-e1606923110367-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Randi_Weaver_headshot-e1606923110367-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Randi_Weaver_headshot-e1606923110367-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Randi_Weaver_headshot-e1606923110367-768x395.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A campus interview with Mellon Financial Corporation (BNY Mellon) during her senior year at Allegheny led Randi Weaver \u201983 to a career where she spends her days with professional athletes and others who seek to include philanthropic investments in their overall wealth management.<\/p>\n<p>Based in London since 1989, Randi worked primarily in Australia, the U.K., and Spain, providing global financial services with a focus on investment management. She also gained experience in the nonprofit sector in a range of paid and unpaid leadership roles. Randi left Mellon in 2008 to establish her own consultancy, Good Giving, specializing in sports, corporate, and family philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>She was the first independent philanthropy adviser in the U.K. and the first to focus on professional athletes. The majority of her clients, said Randi, are ultra-high and high-net-worth individuals and families who seek a personalized giving plan and\/or assistance in managing \u201cthe financial and reputation risk which can be associated with charitable giving.\u201d She also serves private corporations seeking to develop or revitalize their charitable giving. Randi is featured in The Spear\u2019s 500, a guide to the \u201ctop private client professionals focused on wealth management, law and advisory services\u201d in Europe and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTailored\u201d describes Randi\u2019s work with clients. She aids them in identifying their overall charitable interest areas, what they hope to accomplish, and potential organizations that may help them to achieve their goals. She partners with her clients and their tax and legal advisors to develop individualized plans including donor education, budget-setting, beneficiary selection, risk assessment, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Education and risk assessment may be particularly important for those who are new to high-impact charitable giving for, as Randi noted, not all charitable endeavors are successful and some donors are more comfortable than others in supporting new ventures. Two additional areas of risk that donors must consider are an organization\u2019s financial stability and its reputation (or the potential risk to their reputations in supporting it).<\/p>\n<p>A swimmer for Coach Tom Erdos, Randi\u2019s own experience as an All-American athlete (one of the first females to earn the honor at Allegheny) led to her specialization in sports philanthropy and helped give her entr\u00e9e to the world of professional athletics. She has advised tennis and cricket players \u201cand even a Formula 1 driver\u201d but now works almost exclusively with football players (soccer, to us in the U.S.). Footballers are required by their unions to provide weekly community service in the U.K., so Randi\u2019s guidance often starts there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is easiest to start working with this donation of time and image before beginning to plan the donation of funds,\u201d she noted. \u201cIt is a very natural path.\u201d Most young athletes are not yet experienced in community outreach or in developing their public personas, and they can be surrounded by advisers who see them mostly as commodities. \u201cAt this stage in my career, I can be there for them and help them want to do good things with their time, image, and money,\u201d Randi added.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"gold mb30 mt30\" \/>\n<p class=\"profilequote large\">\u201cAt this stage in my career, I can be there for them and help them want to do good things with their time, image, and money.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"gold mb30 mt30\" \/>\n<p>The field comes naturally to Randi, who was born into a charitable family in Meadville. Her parents practiced tithing and donated time and money to a number of organizations. \u201cAs a family we discussed what causes we most wanted to support and why, and those discussions are the basis for my planning sessions with clients today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Randi\u2019s late mother, Joanne Martin Weaver, was one of the first Sheridan ACA Continuing Education Scholarship recipients at Allegheny (see the <em>Ella Nash Society Newsletter<\/em>, Spring 2020), and her late brother, Dan Weaver \u201979, was a cum laude communication arts graduate who early in his career won an Emmy for his work producing daytime television.<\/p>\n<p>Randi\u2019s own philanthropic interests include faith-based charities, organizations that support women returning to the workforce after a break and individuals leaving prison, and her alma mater. She helps Allegheny by recruiting students, welcoming students and faculty alike to London, supporting the Annual Fund, and making special gifts in memory of her mother and brother. \u201cMy support of internships (and bricks!) in their names is their legacy on campus and the most impactful way that I can honour them both,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A double major in economics and Spanish and a cum laude graduate, Randi remains engaged with the College\u2019s Spanish and international education programs and is particularly inspired by President Hilary Link\u2019s commitment to international diversity in higher education. Randi studied in Madrid during her junior year, a life-changing experience. \u201cI would not be where I am or who I am without it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Randi has since completed post-graduate work at the London Business School and George Washington University. A 2010 recipient of Allegheny\u2019s Gold Citation, awarded in recognition and appreciation of honor reflected upon the College by virtue of one\u2019s professional or volunteer activities, Randi said in closing, \u201cAllegheny gave me the tools and the opportunities that resulted in not one, but two, successful careers and a life well lived \u2014 and without borders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A campus interview with Mellon Financial Corporation (BNY Mellon) during her senior year at Allegheny led Randi Weaver \u201983 to a career where she spends her days with professional athletes and others who seek to include philanthropic investments in their overall wealth management. Based in London since 1989, Randi worked primarily in Australia, the U.K., [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/allegheny-all-american-becomes-u-k-philanthropy-expert\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Allegheny All-American Becomes U.K. Philanthropy Expert&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":400,"date":"2020-12-02T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=400"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:05:34","slug":"vice-president-wants-to-hear-your-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/vice-president-wants-to-hear-your-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Wants to Hear Your Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-403\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/12\/Stinson_Family-1-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Stinson_Family-1-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Stinson_Family-1-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Stinson_Family-1-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Stinson_Family-1.jpg 1521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Stinson joined Allegheny as Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs in late August, bringing to the College more than 20 years of progressive management experience in higher education, nonprofit, and business organizations. In his role as a member of the President\u2019s senior leadership team, Matt will oversee the development, execution, and ongoing assessment of Allegheny\u2019s fundraising and alumni relations programming. He is particularly eager to help enrich and expand the opportunities for alumni, parents, and friends in the U.S. and abroad to engage with the College on a sustained basis.<\/p>\n<p>Matt was enthused during his interviews to learn of the <em>Ella Nash Society Newsletter<\/em> and our efforts to educate our female readers about the distinctive nature of women\u2019s philanthropy and to inspire their gifts of time, money, and other resources to their favorite nonprofits. He has a keen interest in the topic himself. An avid reader, Matt said that his 2020 summer book pile included <em>Gender Matters: A Guide to Growing Women\u2019s Philanthropy<\/em> by Kathleen Loehr. Matt noted that the author asks, \u201cHow often do you ask about a woman\u2019s motivations and your organization\u2019s fit with her values&#8230;? Have you ever asked her to tell the story of her philanthropy with any organization? You will learn a lot about motivation, preferred engagement, stewardship, and her values as she tells the story.\u201d Added Matt: \u201cSimply stated, I can\u2019t wait to hear your stories.\u201d Neither can we.<\/p>\n<p>Matt\u2019s own philanthropy story includes a great deal of community engagement. He has served as a past board member of the Alliance (Ohio) Kiwanis and was a co-founding board member of the Alliance Community Pantry. He also consults pro bono for nonprofit organizations needing assistance with fundraising strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Matt and his wife, Paula Gregory, have a son, Brendan, a junior at Capital University. A graduate of Mount Union College\/University with a B.S. in computer science, Matt earned his Master of Education from Westminster College in 2020 and an MBA with a focus in entrepreneurship from Jones International University in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Stinson joined Allegheny as Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs in late August, bringing to the College more than 20 years of progressive management experience in higher education, nonprofit, and business organizations. In his role as a member of the President\u2019s senior leadership team, Matt will oversee the development, execution, and ongoing assessment [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/vice-president-wants-to-hear-your-stories\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Vice President Wants to Hear Your Stories&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":394,"date":"2020-12-02T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=394"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:04:21","slug":"philanthropy-in-action-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/philanthropy-in-action-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Philanthropy in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"circle alignright size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/12\/Pamela_Marquez.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Pamela_Marquez.png 328w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/12\/Pamela_Marquez-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/>Pamela Marquez \u201921 completed the Moldova Global Health Internship in fall 2019 with support from the <b>James \u201975 and Linda Trippi Expendable Fund for Global Health Internships<\/b>. The double major in biology and philosophy was placed with two nonprofits in the capital, Chisinau, working with children in one and the elderly in the other. Pamela worked closely with the latter, who are often left behind in Moldova with few resources when their adult children emigrate to Romania, Russia, and other European nations. At Allegheny, Pamela has been a health coach in a joint program with the Meadville Medical Center and a math tutor to area \u201cat-risk\u201d youth. She said that her experiences \u2014 especially her time in Moldova \u2014 shaped the person she is today, adding that she learned that she thrives under pressure and wants a hands-on career, likely in emergency medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"box box-tip box-align-\"><div class=\"h4-title\"><i class=\"fa fa-star\"><\/i><span>Learn More<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To learn more about the Global Health Internship and\/or to make a gift in support of it, contact Tiffany Cipollone at tcipollone@allegheny.edu or by telephone at (814) 332-3098 or toll-free (866) 332-3853.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Marquez \u201921 completed the Moldova Global Health Internship in fall 2019 with support from the James \u201975 and Linda Trippi Expendable Fund for Global Health Internships. The double major in biology and philosophy was placed with two nonprofits in the capital, Chisinau, working with children in one and the elderly in the other. Pamela [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/12\/02\/philanthropy-in-action-5\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Philanthropy in Action&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":350,"date":"2020-04-28T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-04-28T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:40:30","slug":"skipper-and-ruth-knights-surprise-college-with-large-bequest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/28\/skipper-and-ruth-knights-surprise-college-with-large-bequest\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipper and Ruth Knights Surprise College with Large Bequest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_2861-e1588083979315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-357\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_2861-e1588083979315-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_2861-e1588083979315-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_2861-e1588083979315-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>When the mail arrived one afternoon in September 2018, there was nothing to suggest that it included the first distribution of an unexpected six-figure bequest from two Allegheny icons who had died almost 20 years earlier. Staff were stunned to learn that the late Ruth E. (Williams) Knights, longtime associate dean of the college, and her late husband, Professor of History Paul A. \u201cSkipper\u201d Knights, had left half of their estate to Allegheny College. Those who studied at Allegheny from the late 1940s to the early 1980s rarely fail to mention this early power couple who met, married and shared their lives with countless students and faculty for more than three decades. It was deeply moving to learn that their final mark on the world would come to Allegheny in the form of a $352,000 unrestricted bequest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither Ruth nor Skipper had a formal Allegheny connection before their employment. Skipper arrived in 1947 with a brand new Ph.D. in American history from the University of Iowa, and Ruth followed two years later, degree details unknown. They had completed their undergraduate degrees at Hobart College (Hobart and William Smith College) and Carroll College (Carroll University), respectively, and those two institutions share the other half of the couple\u2019s estate. Allegheny College Historian, Professor Emeritus and honorary alumnus Jonathan Helmreich writes that Professor Knights and Dean Williams, popular young employees, were frequently asked to chaperone dances. Knights would squire Williams to events, and they later said that \u201cit would be \u2018simpler\u2019 if they just got married.\u201d In 1954, they did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Class of 1957 dedicated its yearbook to the couple whom it said symbolized its Allegheny experiences. The editors wrote:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a team, this couple works together for the sole objective of guiding the Allegheny student in his social and academic growth at college. The whole-hearted interest and devotion that they display in the student\u2019s welfare increases the respect which they command. Dr. and Mrs. Knights bring together the many phases of college life and present a picture of the whole school.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs. Knights, as Associate Dean of Students, acts as a liaison between the student and faculty in the interest of further understanding and cooperative relations. Her keen insight and gracious presence at student or faculty gatherings makes her a stabilizing force behind all that goes on in the college.\u2028Dr. Knights \u2026 represents the strength of close student-faculty relationships. As an advisor to the Block A Club, a fraternity group, and to individual students, Dr. Knights has shown an unfailing interest in the student\u2019s welfare.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outstanding as individuals, Dr. and Mrs. Knights, together represent the finest of Allegheny.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<hr class=\"gold mb30 mt30\">\n<p class=\"profilequote large\">&#8220;Outstanding as individuals, Dr. and Mrs. Knights, together represent the finest of Allegheny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"gold mb30 mt30\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In planning their gift, Skipper and Ruth named each other as the sole beneficiaries of their estates. Skipper died two months before Ruth, so it is her will that facilitated this gift. She established a trust through her will to benefit a family member with the proviso that after that person\u2019s death, the balance would go to the three colleges. This is not an uncommon scenario, as many people desire to support both loved ones and their favorite charities through their estates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"box box-default box-align-\"><p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">For more information on ways that you may use your will and\/or retirement accounts to provide for your loved ones and beloved charities, please contact <span class=\"strong\">Melissa Mencotti, Director of Gift Planning, at (866) 332-3853 (toll-free) or (814) 332-6519, or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/allegheny.giftplans.org\">allegheny.giftplans.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">The Annual Fund Grant program provides promising, talented young scholars with access to a life-changing education. Without donors like you, the Allegheny experiences you value would be out of reach for many of these deserving students. You can be part of shaping students, like Emily, who will go on to change the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the mail arrived one afternoon in September 2018, there was nothing to suggest that it included the first distribution of an unexpected six-figure bequest from two Allegheny icons who had died almost 20 years earlier. Staff were stunned to learn that the late Ruth E. (Williams) Knights, longtime associate dean of the college, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/28\/skipper-and-ruth-knights-surprise-college-with-large-bequest\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Skipper and Ruth Knights Surprise College with Large Bequest&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":363,"date":"2020-04-25T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=363"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:24:28","slug":"philanthrophy-in-action-emily-rice-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/25\/philanthrophy-in-action-emily-rice-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Philanthropy in Action: Emily Rice \u201921"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/Emily-Rice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-355\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/Emily-Rice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/Emily-Rice.jpg 778w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/Emily-Rice-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/Emily-Rice-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a>\u201cOne of the best experiences that I have had at Allegheny was being able to go to Italy over the summer for an Experiential Learning trip. I was able to learn basic Italian and learn about the culture on a three-and-a-half-week journey there. Going on this trip has given me the travel bug, and I cannot wait to see where my next adventure takes me. Because of your generous support, I can have all these fantastic experiences and an even better education. Thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Rice \u201921<\/strong><br \/>\nPsychology major<br \/>\nEducation Studies minor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the best experiences that I have had at Allegheny was being able to go to Italy over the summer for an Experiential Learning trip. I was able to learn basic Italian and learn about the culture on a three-and-a-half-week journey there. Going on this trip has given me the travel bug, and I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/25\/philanthrophy-in-action-emily-rice-21\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Philanthropy in Action: Emily Rice \u201921&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":367,"date":"2020-04-21T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=367"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:18:54","slug":"golden-aged-retiree-is-a-true-blue-alleghenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/21\/golden-aged-retiree-is-a-true-blue-alleghenian\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden-aged Retiree is a True-blue Alleghenian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_5607ps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-358 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_5607ps-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_5607ps-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_5607ps-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_5607ps-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Sheridan (center, in red) and former scholars. (Photo by Bill Owen \u201974)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Nancy Sheridan finally retired from Allegheny in 2009, she was 80 years old and had worked here for 42 years. She had tried to retire earlier, but the College kept finding projects that were perfectly suited to her \u2014 and only her. This longtime director of student support services and her late husband, Professor Emeritus Jim Sheridan \u201950, developed deep friendships with students and faculty along the way, frequently hosting them in their Henry Street home for spirited conversation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After arriving in 1964, the mother of three immersed herself in the extended Allegheny community and became involved with the Allegheny College Association (ACA), a group of so-called \u201cfaculty wives\u201d who met for social and philanthropic pursuits. Nancy, a psychometrist, began working at the College in 1967. One of the first to be honored with Allegheny\u2019s Robert T. Sherman Distinguished Service Award in 2000, Nancy is still engaged with the Allegheny and Meadville communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ACA persuaded Allegheny administrators in 1972 to establish a scholarship program for non-traditional female students \u2013 women aged 25-plus who had graduated from high school but had not completed a college degree. They formed a subcommittee to raise funds to supplement the College\u2019s contributions, recruit students, and provide empowering support for the women. A committee of staff, faculty and past recipients remains active today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scholarship recipients may take up to 12 credits per year (typically three courses) free of charge. They have the same access to College resources as traditional students, and they receive a stipend of $300 per course to spend how they see fit. Scholars may also receive support for a second or third year of study through additional donor funds. A few women have gone on to earn undergraduate degrees. Nearly 150 ACA scholars have joined the Allegheny community over the decades, and Nancy has cheered each one of them along. The scholarship was renamed in her honor in 2012.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/GatorGals66.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-356 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2020\/04\/GatorGals66-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/GatorGals66-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/GatorGals66-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/files\/2020\/04\/GatorGals66-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gator Gals gather in fall 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy\u2019s work with the ACA complemented her decades-long and continuing involvement on the board of directors of Women\u2019s Services, Inc., a local nonprofit organization that provides supportive counseling, advocacy, and emergency housing and services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and other crises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy and a similarly engaged colleague, Linda Allison Palmiero \u201966, P\u201992, worked together for many years at Allegheny. When Linda and a group of her friends who\u2019d met 50-plus years ago in Brooks Hall \u2014 they call themselves the Gator Gals of 1966 \u2014\u00a0 gathered last November to celebrate their 75th birthdays, Jeanne Whitney Smith proposed that they\u00a0 each donate $75 to honor Allegheny College and to celebrate the induction of Dr. Hilary Link as its first woman president. The women readily agreed and were thrilled when Linda told them about the Nancy Sheridan ACA Scholarship. Says Smith, \u201cThe Nancy Sheridan Scholarship was chosen for its focus on the Allegheny experience of changing lives.\u201d Linda presented Nancy and Allegheny College with a collective gift for the scholarship from the 30 friends in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is no surprise that Nancy, whose adult life has been and remains shaped by Allegheny, once said, \u201cFrankly, I think education is one of the most important parts of people\u2019s lives.\u201d In addition to supporting the scholarship, Nancy and friends also established the James F. Sheridan, Jr. Memorial Fund to provide support for students and faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Allegheny. This golden-aged friend of the College is a true-blue Alleghenian.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nancy Sheridan finally retired from Allegheny in 2009, she was 80 years old and had worked here for 42 years. She had tried to retire earlier, but the College kept finding projects that were perfectly suited to her \u2014 and only her. This longtime director of student support services and her late husband, Professor [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/21\/golden-aged-retiree-is-a-true-blue-alleghenian\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;Golden-aged Retiree is a True-blue Alleghenian&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":373,"date":"2020-04-20T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:18:44","slug":"a-special-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/20\/a-special-message\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-329\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ellanash\/files\/2019\/03\/ella_nash.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"252\" \/>As this issue goes to press, we are living and working in a landscape that looks vastly different than it did just weeks ago. Campus is quiet as faculty provide coursework and instruction to students via remote delivery, and staff and administrators work from home to keep the College moving forward. We take \u2014 and hope we provide \u2014 comfort in our routines as we focus on the time that students once again walk the halls, faculty lecture and lead labs, music tickles the ivories in the practice rooms, friends and classmates cheer on teams, and the campus teems with life. We send this newsletter in that spirit, and in the hope that you enjoy reading about Ruth Knights, Nancy Sheridan, and the Gator Gals of 1966 who have shaped and supported Allegheny and who inspire us to build upon their legacies for students like Emily Rice \u201921.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this issue goes to press, we are living and working in a landscape that looks vastly different than it did just weeks ago. Campus is quiet as faculty provide coursework and instruction to students via remote delivery, and staff and administrators work from home to keep the College moving forward. We take \u2014 and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mt-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/2020\/04\/20\/a-special-message\/\">Continue Reading &#8220;A Special Message&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/ella-nash-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]