University to honor donors at annual reception
December 11, 2013
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks will honor four longtime donors at its annual donor reception Thursday, Dec. 12 at 6 p.m. in the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
The event will highlight the contributions of Linda Hulbert, the Pollock Conservation Cooperative, Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation, and Paul and Birgit Hunter. The university will also announce a new major gift at the event.
Hulbert is being honored for individual contributions to UAF. As a representative of New York Life, she has helped solidify the company’s philanthropic relationship with UAF. Privately, gifts from her and her family have established the John R. Hulbert Memorial Scholarship, which is named for her late husband, and pledged significant support for the Hulbert Nanook Terrain Park.
Paul and Birgit Hunter are being honored for longevity. The couple made their first gift to the university in 1964, and have consistently renewed and increased their annual gifts ever since. In 1981, they established the Paul C. Hunter Engineering Scholarship. Paul Hunter is an alumnus, having earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from UAF in 1962.
The Pollock Conservation Cooperative is being honored for corporate giving. The cooperative was formed in 1998 by the Bering Sea pollock catcher-processor fleet. In 2000, the companies helped form the Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Since then, six companies—American Seafoods, Arctic Storm, Coastal Villages, Glacier Fish Co., Starbound and Trident Seafoods—have donated more than $13 million to further research and to establish the endowed Ted Stevens Professor of Marine Policy.
The Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation is being honored for foundation gifts. With a pledge of $250,000 over 10 years, the foundation established the George Schaller Fellowship in honor of the UAF alumnus and field biologist. The fellowship allows international graduate students in the Resilience and Adaptation Program to conduct conservation research that contributes to the survival of wildlife and the vitality of human communities with which their fate is linked.
Private giving at UAF totals averages $6 million a year and supports a wide variety of needs, from scholarships to equipment to research programs.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Emily Drygas, UAF development director, at 907-474-2619 or emily.drygas@alaska.edu.
ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/giving
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