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84 giftsWe are grateful as well to the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, which has long recognizedthe institutional and scientific worth of our resident research programs and whichrenewed its funding in 2005. In addition, former trustee and MBL alumnus, Dr. Porter W.Anderson, created a new Director’s Development Fund to assist with recruitment effortsand to help the MBL further develop resident research at the MBL.As always, annual unrestricted giving played a crucial role in the financial health of theLaboratory in 2005. The Annual and Alumni Funds brought in $636,417 of the $801,824total operating funds raised, and we congratulate Annual Fund Chairman Tom Pollardand President John Dowling for increasing gifts from alumni and corporation members,respectively. A new Anniversary Giving program for alumni was successful at increasingboth average gift size and the number of new donors. The cumulative effect of thisprogram going forward should yield a strong base of alumni support.Nearly 200 donors took advantage of opportunities tohonor influential and respected MBL scientists by creatingnew endowed funds. The John Cebra Lectureship inPhysiology was celebrated at a reception on campus thatDr. Cebra himself, a former Physiology course director, wasable to attend. He passed away in October 2005. In honorof Dr. John Hobbie, who will step down as co-directorof the MBL Ecosystems Center in 2006, more than 150people, including MBL staff, raised more than $400,000toward the half-million dollar John E. Hobbie Fund forScience, responding to a challenge grant from the ClowesFund.In addition to growing our Annual and Alumni funds,our fundraising focus in 2006 will be responding toand completing challenge grants including the GoldenChallenge for the MBL’s Science Journalism Program andthe Hobbie Fund. In addition, an anonymous donor hasmade a $1 million gift to Brown University in supportof the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological andEnvironmental Science. That donor has challenged ourBoard to raise an additional $1 million towards building a$20 million endowment for this important program.These efforts will be enhanced with the addition of a newstaff member, Patrick Schaefer, who comes to us fromBentley College and, previously, the Whitehead Institute.As Assistant Director of Major Gifts, Patrick will develop aCorporate Partners Program as well as focus on individual giving.To our generous donors whose names appear on the following pages, and to those whowish to remain anonymous, we extend our sincerest thanks on behalf of the Board ofTrustees and all those who were able to follow their scientific muse at the MBL in 2005.—M Howard Jacobson and William I. Huyett, Co-chairs1Cunningham, A. “Changing Priorities: Bush initiative shifts science-budget funds.” Science News 169(6): 86.