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Development Message
West honored, class scholarships grow,
new construction under way
Wow! What an exciting year at the
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical
Sciences (CVM). It makes our
heads spin to look back on all of the
wonderful things that have happened
since last summer. The pages of this issue
of CVM Today remind us of the latest
Outstanding Alumni honorees for
the college, and, in addition, Dr. Joe
West ’56 was honored this past year as a
Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M
University, joining Dr. Fred Palmer ’69
as the only CVM graduates to obtain
this prestigious designation.
Friends of the college have also continued
to bless us with their generosity
and are responsible for our position
at or near the top of the charts for
charitable receipts for the various units
at Texas A&M. You will note the recent
gift from the Burnett Foundation of
the Dr. Glenn Blodgett Equine Chair,
along with the announcement of several
new scholarships. In addition, we
Dr. Joe E. West
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continue to book and receive planned
gifts on a regular basis that will be
placed in endowments to benefit the
students and faculty of the CVM for
many years to come.
Speaking of scholarships, the Class
Scholarship Program has recently had
several classes reach endowed scholarship
status. We want to thank those
graduates who have generously donated
to their class scholarship funds and
who have made these scholarships possible.
We appreciate it, and we assure
you, so do our students. After thanking
you, however, we would remind you
that these endowed scholarship funds
can still accept contributions, so please
feel free to continue your financial
support.
For those classes who don’t yet have
endowed scholarships, we have good
news for you. It is very likely that your
class scholarship fund lacks very little
in reaching endowed status, and it usually
requires
only a little bit
of good-naturedencouragement
from
a classmate
to spur the
class members
to action.
If you are
so inclined,
please feel
free to call
our office and
ask us how you
can lead your
classmates to
fully endow
their class
scholarships.
We are looking
forward to
the centennial
celebration of
the CVM in
2016, and we
can’t think of
2011
a better way
to celebrate
the centennial
anniversary
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS
Texas a&M UniversiTy
than to have all class scholarships fully
endowed.
The future for the college is even
brighter than the past, and excitement
is building for what will be. New
educational space, renovations in the
Small Animal Hospital, a new aviary,
and marked progress on the Equine
Initiative will keep us very busy for the
foreseeable future, and we know you’ll
want to be a part of it. Please keep in
mind that a very large portion of the
donated funds received by the CVM
comes from the grateful clients of you,
our graduates. As you go about your
daily work of providing capable, caring,
and compassionate care to the animals
of Texas and beyond, please keep us in
mind if you run across clients who express
an interest in supporting animals
or veterinary medicine financially. The
CVM Development staff would love to
visit with you and your client about the
possibilities.
Please let us know if there is anything
that we can do for you at the college.
Give us a call or stop by for a visit
when you are in town.
Also, be sure to look us up if you
attend the North American Veterinary
Conference, Western Veterinary
Conference, AVMA Annual Meeting,
Southwest Veterinary Symposium,
AABP Annual Meeting, or AAEP Annual
Meeting. We hold Aggie Alumni
Receptions at all of these meetings,
and we would love to have you join us.
Thanks again for your support, and
Gig ‘em!
O. J. “Bubba” Woytek, DVM, ’65
Asst. Vice President for Development
Guy A. Sheppard, DVM, ’78
Director of Development
Chastity Rodgers
Director of Development