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                        JeffNEWS, October 25, 1994
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THE JEFFERSON 2000 FUND

Foerderer Family Honored

President's Club Dinner Guests Celebrate as Campaign Total
Reaches the Halfway Mark
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The Jefferson 2000 Fund is at the halfway mark in its climb toward $200
million by the year 2000, Mrs. Samuel M. V. Hamilton announced at this
year's President's Club dinner. Mrs. Hamilton chairs the campaign.

"I'm thrilled to announce that, to date, we've raised $100 million," she
told the honored guests at the annual thank-you to Jefferson's donors.
"As board of trustees chairman, James Stratton, has noted, `Our cup is
half full, but we have the other half to fill.'"

"There's a very special feeling on an occasion such as this -  seeing
old friends and new, all of us brought together by our commitment to
Jefferson," said University president, Paul C. Brucker, MD, in his
welcome.

The event was an opportunity to take particular notice of the
extraordinary generosity of the Foerderer family, who recently made the
largest single gift Jefferson has ever received.

A highlight of the evening was the special award conferred on the
Foerderer Foundation. Shirley Foerderer Murray, a daughter of the late
Percival E. and Ethel Brown Foerderer, who established the foundation,
accepted the award on behalf of her family.

The foundation, recently dissolved when its assets were transferred to
the University, had been honored once before, 13 years ago, with the
Cornerstone Award. 

Mr. Foerderer, a life trustee of Jefferson Medical College (JMC), and
his wife, Ethel, a former president of the Women's Board of the
Hospital, made many lasting contributions to Jefferson in a relationship
with the University that spanned more than 60 years.

Recalling the occasion when the foundation first received the
Cornerstone Award in 1981, Mr. Stratton noted, "One thing was missing
that evening - a replica of the statue of Thomas Jefferson." 

Dr. Brucker then presented Mrs. Murray with a model of the life-size
statue of Jefferson by sculptor Lloyd Lillie, which stands in the atrium
of Jefferson Alumni Hall. These replicas have been presented to every
Cornerstone Award recipient since 1987.

As a permanent reminder of the Foerderer family's longstanding
commitment to the University, a plaque commemorating their most recent
gift will be installed in Alumni Hall. Its inscription reads: 

   "Thomas Jefferson University gratefully acknowledges the outstanding
   generosity of The Percival E. and Ethel Brown Foerderer Foundation for 
   its gift of a perpetual endowment to fund Foerderer Fellowships in the 
   College of Graduate Studies, grants for research and the Martin E. 
   Rehfuss Lecture."

Dr. Brucker and Mrs. Hamilton recognized Fellows of the President's
Club, who receive goldheaded physician's canes, a centuries'-old symbol
of healing and generosity, to commemorate their contributions to the
University.

"This is a wonderful tradition and one of my most pleasant duties," Dr.
Brucker said in acknowledging those who make exceptional contributions
to furthering Jefferson's goals. He welcomed the 1994 Fellows, Mr. and
Mrs. William Farish III, who have strongly supported the department of
orthopaedic surgery's campaign, and Dr. and Mrs. Edward W. Naegele, Jr.,
who established a loan fund in memory of their son, Karl Theodore
Naegele, a 1983 JMC  graduate.

Dr. Brucker awarded gold Winged Ox pins to new members of the Winged Ox
Society, the highest honor conferred on members of the President's Club,
next to being named a Fellow or receiving the Cornerstone Award.

The new members of the Winged Ox Society are:

Gilbert Alexander, MD; Dr. and Mrs. Phillip Barringer; Dr. and Mrs.
Jerome M. Cotler; Alfred DiSipio; Rosemary Gillette; Brian G. Harrison;
Herman Kerner; Charles G. Kopp, Esq.; Douglas J. MacMaster Jr., Esq.;
Dr. and Mrs. Dane Miller; Mrs. James P. Mills; Glenn Nye, MD; Dr. and
Mrs. Paul Pottgen; Bayard Sharp; Herbert Sprince, MD; Henry Stofman, MD;
Dr. and Mrs. John Y. Templeton III; Roger Terry, MD; Matt Vegari, MD,
and Marty Whalen.

Mrs. Hamilton then acknowledged those who are members of the Winged Ox
Society for a second consecutive year:

Lennox K. Black; Paul A. Bowers, MD; Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD; Paul C.
Brucker, MD; Stephanie Eglin; Maxine Epstein; Jack Farber; Joseph
Foster; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. V. Hamilton; Josephine C. Mandeville;
Lawson Miller, MD; Mrs. Bernard Rotko; Jacob Seidman; Merrill Seidman;
James W. Stratton and Donald Tomasello, MD.


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