Thanks to 33 members of our club (listed below), we have raised $6,170 for the Bruce Gevertz '83 Memorial Scholarship Fund.

In 2000 we contributed $1,700 and in 1999 we contributed $355. Our total contributions to date are $8225.

The Fund currently has $43,000 in it. I am very proud of our Club since our contributions comprise nearly 20% of the cash in the Fund.

At the alumni reception and memorial service, I spoke with Bruce's mom (Joan) and widow (Jackie). I told them that I thought that our goal should be to get the Fund to the endowment level. Once the Fund has $100,000 in it, dollars can be distributed to a student athlete each year and the Fund will be self sustaining. Funding could start now, but then the Fund risks being spent down and eventually there might be no money left it it. There are another $11,000 pledged, so the Fund is over the half way point to becoming endowed.

Jim Grube 79-91 asked me after the memorial service how I thought we could facilitate a lasting memory for Bruce's sons. Without hesitating, I replied that, once the Fund is endowed and scholarship distributions begin, every year a very grateful Middlebury student athlete will write a thank you letter to the Gevertz family. I believe that Joan, Jackie and Bruce's 3 sons will treasure these letters and the opportunity that the Fund has created for a deserving student. Bruce will be remembered.

2001 Gevertz Fund Contributors

Beams 66

Boucher 76

Burchard 80

Chafee 85

Chorske 90

Coash 82

Dayton 87

Dobek 78

Doyle 98

Fellows 86

Giarrusso 83

Grube 79-90

Harris 77

Heffernan 82

Heffernan 78

Jones 65

Marlow 57

McClennan 88

McCulloch 90

McKee 91

Nestler 80

Patty 90

Peters 86

Peterson 86

Plank 78

Quinn 86

Scheufele 80

Seymour 88

Sideli 77

Storrs 81

Westling 88

Wheeler 78

Whitman 97

Willett 90

Zecca 88