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Medical Society challenges members to support science equipment endowment
March 5, 2004 | |||||
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The Howard County Medical Society has contributed $1,500 toward the IU Kokomo science equipment endowment, and has challenged its members to make personal contributions to the endowment fund. The society will match up to an additional $1,500 of individual contributions made in 2004. “By contributing to the endowment fund which supports state-of-the-art science equipment, local physicians are not only supporting those who are seeking higher education, but are also investing in potential future members of the Howard County Medical Society,” said Stuart Devaul, M.D., president of the Howard County Medical Society. “By providing the best in higher education, including facilities, staff, and equipment resources, IU Kokomo is a major player in keeping and retaining our best and brightest residents and should be supported in this community.” “IU Kokomo truly appreciates the Medical Society’s generous contribution and its call for its members to give to this important project,” said Vice Chancellor for External Relations Nancy Dailey. “Each doctor in the society put effort into gaining his or her own education, and these contributions will encourage today’s science students to put in similar effort.” Dailey offered special thanks to Dr. E. Robert Blue of Kokomo, who proposed involvement in the endowment project to the medical society. The medical society’s 100 members are all physicians practicing in Howard County, representing a wide range of practice types from primary care to specialty medicine. The society’s aims, outlined in its constitution, are “to elevate and make effective the opinions of the profession in all scientific, legislative, public health, material and social affairs,” while encouraging respect and support for physicians. The Howard County Medical Society is affiliated with the Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. As of March 1, 2004, donors had pledged a total $197,429 to the IU Kokomo Science Equipment Endowment fund. The campus has until January 2005 to raise the balance of its $468,000 endowment goal. The science equipment endowment is part of a total $935,000 project, which will purchase equipment to meet the current needs of science courses at IU Kokomo and establish an endowment for maintaining and replacing equipment in perpetuity. A Kresge Science Initiative challenge grant provided an initial $117,000 for equipment. Kresge will contribute an additional $117,000 if private gifts for the remainder of the endowment are secured by January 2005. For further information, contact Nancy Dailey at (765) 455-9485.
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