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Campaign raises $6 million for schoolby Anne KibblerThe two largest scholarships in thehistory of the School of Journalismrounded out a successful fundraisingcampaign that brought $6 million indonations to support students, programsand projects in the school. The effortwas part of the Matching the Promisecampaign, which raised $1.1 billion forthe Bloomington campus. The School ofJournalism’s goal was $5 million.Marty Anderson, BA’57, former AssociatedPress reporter and editor, gave $1.75million to fund scholarships for studentswho might otherwise not be able to afforda journalism education. And the late FrankArganbright, BA’49, whose career includedreporting and editing at the (Lafayette, Ind.)Journal and Courier as well as working forthe Purdue University News Service, donated$1.1 million in his estate to supporteducation in public affairs reporting.Journalism dean Brad Hamm saysAnderson and Arganbright don’t fit thestereotype of major donors. Longtimebachelors, both lived modestly and quietly,devoting their lives to their careers. Andersondidn’t marry until his late 60s, andArganbright never married. Neither hadchildren.Just as important as the major scholarships,Hamm says, were the hundreds ofsmaller gifts that will help students traveloverseas and study specialties such as sportsor business reporting.The boost in scholarship funding willhelp the school provide four-year as well asshort-term scholarships, meeting one of thegoals of the campus campaign to attracttop students to Bloomington.“The impact of these scholarships willlast forever,” Hamm says.Other gifts will support programs andprojects in the school, including a donationby Bob and Susan (Bassett) Hetheringtonto pay for plaques celebrating the school’scentenary in 2011 (right). Both graduatedfrom the school in 1953.Curt Simic, BS’64, who was presidentof the IU Foundation when the campaignbegan in 2003, says the matching aspectof the campaign was important. TheBloomington campus matched the incomeon each donation, assuring donors thattheir gifts would yield the maximumbenefit.Matt Morris, BA’80, a journalism alumnuswho until the spring was the school’sliaison at the IU Foundation, says that in hisvisits with donors, he frequently witnessedtheir affection for the school and the bondsthey had maintained over time.“The school has touched lives in somany different ways, and for every donorit’s different,” Morris says. “They may havebeen at the Indiana Daily Student, the HighSchool Journalism Institute or be a pastprofessor. The journalism program is likea family.”Jim and Susan (Bassett) Hetherington, both BA’53, congratulate Beka Mech, BAJ’09, therecipient of their 2007 scholarship. In addition to funding a scholarship, the Hetheringtonsdonated plaques celebrating the school’s centennial in 2011.fall 2010 / newswire < 19 >