The college’s mission challenges our students to “develop those habits of intellect and imagination that will prepare them for learning and leadership throughout their lives.” Increasing research funds for faculty, students, and joint collaboration, as well as financial aid resources, are among the important Vision 2010 initiatives. During the past year, several alumni and friends left legacy gifts infusing these programs with vital resources.
From watching Frank Figge ’27 in the field, his wife, Rosalie, who passed away in April 2006, came to value the importance of research in the natural sciences. With the principal of her numerous life income arrangements, CC will establish the Frank H.J. Figge 1927 and Rosalie Yerkes Figge Student Summer Research Grant to provide opportunities for students to engage in independent research. Noted Colorado Springs psychologist Cornelia Manley Sabine ’49, generous to the college throughout her life, also ensured faculty and student research funds in psychology with a bequest to the endowment.
Advocates for public service, retired local judge William “Bill” Calvert ’44 and wife, Madalyn, endowed a scholarship through their estates to support students as devoted to their community and those in need as the Calvert’s were. As the beneficiary of Woman’s Educational Society scholarships, Jane “Pete” Peterson Burroughs ’42 guaranteed future generations of students the same access to a CC education that she had through her bequest to endow a scholarship.
Vision 2010 calls us to provide for both the present and the future of the college, its students, and its faculty. These thoughtful members of the Legacy Society have done
just that.
