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Institutional Advancement4Heather Patchett was named vice president of Institutional Advancement June 2011.Patchett has more than 20 years experience in all aspects of fund raising, including majorgifts, capital campaigns and planned giving programs. She managed advancement programsat Converse College, where she served as vice president of Institutional Advancement; atthe University of the South, where she served as director of capital gifts, and at GustavusAdolphus College, where she was director of the Office of Gift Planning.4More than $1.75 million was raised during fiscal year 2010-11 from 1,276 donors. Of that amount, $611,944was designated to the Tusculum Fund to support College operations, exceeding the 2010-11 Tusculum Fund goalof $400,000.4The College received bequests in excess of $757,000 which helped to establish endowments for the literarymagazine, the theater program and scholarships.4Once again, 100 percent of the members of the Board of Trustees made gifts to the College. They contributedmore than one-third of the dollars given to the Tusculum Fund, giving 255 percent of their goal to the Fund.4The 2010-11 Faculty-Staff Campaign saw a two percent increase over 2009-10, with 46 percent of faculty andstaff contributing to the campaign.The College lost a dedicated friend withthe death of Dr. Samuel E. Miller ‘35H’98 of Abingdon, Va. Dr. Miller passedaway June 3, 2010. He was a long-timesupporter of his Alma Mater, particularlythe Arts Outreach program, and waspresented the Distinguished ServiceAward by the College in 2009. Dr.Miller was a physician, poet, educator,patron of the arts, visionary and servantleader. His associations with TusculumCollege include the lifelong ties made among the sixmembers of his immediate family who attended TusculumCollege. Dr. Miller established a pattern of positiveinvolvement in college, community and family that hecarried on since his student days at Tusculum College. Hissupport of the arts included his initiation of Arts Outreach’sActs, Arts, Academia annual performance and lecture series,and attendance at Theatre-at-Tusculum performances as hishealth allowed. Upon his death, Miller, a member of theHeritage Club, bequeathed the College more than $80,000.4Gifts to the Tusculum Fund fromfoundations totaled more than $157,000;nearly four times the total given in theprevious year.4A challenge was issued on June 1 toincrease alumni giving from five percent to10 percent by June 30. The giving percentagefrom the Residential College alumni finishedat 10.86 percent, nearly three percent higherthan the previous year, and participationfrom Graduate and Professional Studiesprogram alumni nearly doubled, going from1.12 to 2.19 percent. Overall there were 370more gifts to the Tusculum Fund. Of thosegifts, 283 were from first-time donors, newmembers of the College’s Founder’s Society.Continued on the next page