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Support forD’YouvillePlanned Gifts: TrustsThroughout your life, time and energy are spent in accumulatingthings that you treasure: your home, perhaps a vacation home,stocks, bonds, cash, art, jewelry and various other possessions.It is likely that occasionally you have given some thought tohow you might like your assets distributed when you areno longer here to enjoy them. Various responsibilities – andprocrastination, too – precluded you from actually puttingyour thoughts on paper in an orderly way and designating thebeneficiaries of your estate.The easiest way to insure that your wishes are carried out isby writing a will, spelling out exactly your directions for thedisposal of your assets.Another method that can be used is the establishment of atrust. A trust can be revocable or irrevocable. On your death,a revocable trust becomes irrevocable. A revocable trust allowsyou to adjust or change the provisions anytime during your life.To establish a trust, an agreement is written and signed byyou and the person or institution selected by you as yourtrustee. It is the responsibility of your trustee to manageyour assets: cash, securities and any other property heldin the trust. Income from those assets are collected, recordedand distributed to you.In an irrevocable trust arrangement, you relinquish ownershipof your assets to remove them from your taxable estate. Thisarrangement is excellent if you wish to insure the care of a familymember or friend or establish an education fund for yourchildren or grandchildren, to benefit your favorite charityor to protect certain assets from estate taxes.Recently, a member of our college community informedSister Denise Roche that he has named D’Youville College asa beneficiary in a trust he has established. Dr. Edwin Mirand,a long-time friend of the college and a member of the college’sBoard of Trustees, and a faithful supporter of the ScholarshipReception and the Health Award Dinner, included D’Youvillebecause of his respect and admiration for what the collegehas accomplished over the years.Since 1946 Dr. Mirand has served Roswell Park CancerInstitute in many ways, including research, education andcancer center programs. During his long career at the worldrenownedinstitution, he has held many positions: director ofthe viral oncology department, head of the biological resourcedepartment, assistant to the director and vice president foreducational affairs and dean of the Roswell Park GraduateDivision, State University of New York at Buffalo. In this(continued)Oishei Grant Will Help RecruitMinority Nursing StudentsD’Youville received a $450,000 grant from the John R. OisheiFoundation for our “Touch Lives – Be A Nurse” program thatseeks to improve minority representation in nursing.The grant, which will be paid over a three-year period,will focus on introducing nursing to minority youth duringelementary school, maintaining ongoing supportiverelationships with interested students and their parents,and then follow up in secondary school with mentoringand educational programs.Sister Denise A. Roche, D’Youville president, said the grantis a tremendous benefit, not only for the college, but for theentire Western New York community. “It will have far-reachingeffects because it offers an excellent educational experienceand entrance to a very exciting profession to local men andwomen who are under-represented in higher education.”She said it would also address the nursing shortage byproviding caring, competent professional nurses in the future.“The program will be strengthened by the collaboration withmany health care providers in the area,” she added.The grant will help address the obstacles that many minoritystudents face in their pursuit of an education in nursing,including poor academic preparation, poverty, inability tointegrate into the majority culture of most college campusesand lack of professional minority nurse role models.A win-win program for futurestudents and local communitiesWith this grant, D’Youville can further develop efforts torecruit and retain minority students in nursing by providingboth an educational and social environment that willrecognize the students’ potential.Madonna Reddington, coordinator of nursing careerdevelopment, said that, according to a national samplesurvey of registered nurses, only 13.4 percent were reportedas non-white. “There is a dire need to attract Native Americans,African Americans and Hispanic-Americans into the professionin an attempt to create a nursing workforce that more closelymirrors the population which it serves.”(continued)22
last role he has been active in the training of physicians,scientists and medical, dental and nursing students, as wellas undergraduates and high school students.An alumna who recently informed us that D’Youville isincluded in her estate plan is Helen Jendrasiak McBrideof the class of 1950. She established a scholarship inmemory of Emily Jendrasiak, her unmarried aunt whohelped pay her tuition. When asked why she had decidedto be so generous to her alma mater, she said, “I thought Iwould like to do something for the nuns who were sogood to me. They helped me with a partial tuitionscholarship to make a college degree possible, somethingI could not have accomplished without that help.”The college is grateful to Dr. Edwin Mirand and to HelenJendrasiak McBride and all the other alumni and friendswho have been unceasingly loyal and generous toD’Youville in their gifts of support.If you would like information on making a plannedgift to D’Youville, please contact Patricia Van Dyke at(716) 878-2716 in the Office of Planned and Major Gifts.A collaborative effortD’Youville will collaborate with the GEAR UP programin the Buffalo Public Schools, Kaleida Health, BuffaloIndependent Secondary Schools Network, the CatholicHealth System, Erie County Medical Center, the New YorkState and Erie-Niagara Area Health Education Center andHispanics United of Buffalo in this program.The John R. Oishei Foundation was established in 1940by John R. Oishei, founder of Trico Products Corporation.The Foundation’s mission is to enhance the quality of lifefor Buffalo area residents by supporting education, healthcare, scientific research and the cultural, social, civic andother charitable needs of the community.“An important aspect of the grant for the Foundation isthat ongoing support will be provided to minority studentsalready enrolled or those who are recruited, which willsignificantly improve retention rates,” said Thomas E. Baker,president of the John R. Oishei Foundation. “It was alsoimportant that as a result of the collaborations amongagencies, students will be given the opportunity topractice as interns in underserved communities whilethey are students.”Chemistry Continued from page 21.Flanigen met with great resistance from her male colleaguesearlier in her career, but conquered the problem with a steely,if quiet, resolve.“When you reach a certain level of accomplishment and, Iguess, respect, it becomes not that much of an issue,” she says.Jane Griffin left her work at Union Carbide for about a year.“Then I stayed home taking care of family,” she says.After raising five children with her husband Richard, anattorney at Phillips Lytle LLP, Griffin applied for a DanforthFellowship, a grant that assists women who’ve put theircareers on hiatus in order to focus on parenting.She enrolled at UB in 1964, retaking three senior undergraduatecourses in chemistry to refresh her knowledge. Shewas admitted to the graduate program in chemistry two yearslater, and received her doctorate in 1974. The DanforthFellowship, she says, “allowed me to be independent and tosay, ‘I’m going to leave at 3 o’clock in the afternoon’ and totake longer to get my degree.”Griffin, a principal research scientist at the Hauptman-Woodward Institute, where she’s worked for the last 30 years,works in the area of crystallography. “Not many peopleknow it,” she says, “but Buffalo happens to be a world-classcenter for crystallography.”“It’s a beautiful field,” she says. “It’s a very visual field.And it's a field where women are very accepted. It's neverbeen a problem.”Where credit is dueAll three Flanigen sisters agree that Fitzgerald at D’Youville,together with their parents, played a pivotal role in theirdecision to study and practice chemistry.“I think Dr. Fitzgerald prepared us extremely well,” saysDrexelius. She remembers outperforming men in hermaster’s program at Syracuse who came from Big 10 schoolsand had the benefit of many more hours of chemistryinstruction than she had at her liberal arts college.“She was a very devoted educator,” says Griffin. “She wasunusual, and I’m not sure how many (educators like her) arearound today.”The message that they got at Holy Angels, at D'Youvilleand at home was: The sky’s the limit.“I don't think teachers at either school really discouragedyou from anything,” says Griffin. “We had very good nunswho were all extremely well-educated, and you never got theimpression that there was anything you couldn’t do. Youweren’t encouraged to go into traditional roles or anything.”Charles and Edith Flanigen reinforced that message athome. Griffin describes her father as an eccentric andher mother as a no-nonsense person with a good senseof humor.“In one sense, none of us would be chemists without myfather,” notes Drexelius. “He didn’t have any sons initially,so he pushed his daughters: ‘You can do anything you want.You can be anything you want.’ And he was always curious.”23
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