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Gifts
Earle Salisbury Bates, '54
A
member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and the Phi Beta Kappa society, Earle
Bates is a former corporate and securities lawyer from Washington, D.C. who
has recently retired and moved to Kendall in Lexington. He has pledged $130,000
over a five year period, $26,000 a year, to the Interdisciplinary Environmental
Studies Program at Washington and Lee University. Bates has also made the
Environmental Studies Program the beneficiary of his retirement program upon his
death.
"I've always been interested in protecting the environment," said
Bates. "In its embryonic stage, the Environmental Studies Program needed
additional funds. It seemed like a good fit. I know it's not a black and white
issue, but I do think that the preservation of natural resources for future
generations is an important legacy to leave to our descendants," he added.
Stephen
S. Sloan, '54
Steve Sloan was a member,
and president of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity during his time at W&L as
well as the co-captain of the baseball team. Mr. Sloan
spends 90% of his time on conservation efforts, and runs a family real estate
business, Stephen Sloan Realty Corp. Sloan is the author of Ocean Bankruptcy
(2003) and Fly Fishing is Spoken Here (2001). He is the founder of
the "Fishin' Zone" Radio Program that is broadcast in 1,000 cities
over 200 stations. He is the chairman of the Fisheries Defense Fund, Inc.
and several other conservation organizations. Mr. Sloan
has generously donated a painting "White Shark and Sea Lion" by
Richard Ellis (1975) to the Environmental Studies Program and continues to be a
benefactor and support of the program.
Grants
The
Associated Colleges of the South
The
Associated Colleges of the South Environmental Initiative (ACSEI) annually funds
two to five student environmental interns as well as a faculty member to
supervise these students who are charged with initiating environmental projects
and activities on their campuses. In the 2002-2003 school year, Washington
and Lee University has four environmental interns. ACS also provides
grants to individuals and organizations on campus. This year Washington
and Lee University has received close to $5,000 in grants for various
environmental projects.
The Jessie Ball
DuPont Foundation
The Jessie Ball DuPont Foundation
awarded the Environmental Studies Program a $200,000 grant which allowed the
program allowed the Environmental Studies Program to intensify its activities in
many directions, including curricular development, co-curricular activities, and
campus sustainability. With this grant students and faculty developed a
significant number of activities that contribute to the understanding and
practice of environmental citizenship at the local, regional, national and
global level.
Fund
for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education
The
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) from US Department
of Education awarded Washington and Lee a significant grant to fund the
US-Brazilian Consortium, which includes Washington and Lee University, Fairfield
University in the US, and
the Universidade do Amazonas and the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense
in Brazil. The project is entitled the Environment, Economic Development and Quality
of Life Nexus, and provides $208,000 for student exchange, the development of a
common, North-South curriculum in environmental studies, the development of
internet-based teaching resources and faculty interaction.
The Huntington
Library
English Professor Jim Warren received
a research grant from the Huntington Library
in
San Marino, California for one month during the summer of
2002. Dr. Warren conducted his research on American nature writers John
Muir, John Burroughs, and Mary Austin, the culmination of which will eventually
become the book, John Burroughs And The Place Of Nature.
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (sub-contracted
through University of Tennessee during 2000-2001) awarded Environmental Studies
Program director, James Kahn a $23,000 for his project “Integrated
Environmental Decision-Making”.
The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(USFWS)
awarded Washington and Lee biology professors, Dr. Maryanne Simurda and Dr. John
Knox a grant for $10,000 to study the genetic and taxonomic relationships of the
federally protected rare plant, Helenium virginicum from 2000 to 2002. The
results of this study have been used to extend federal protection through the
Endangered Species Act to a disjunct population of Helenium found in Missouri.
All other populations of the rare plant exist in two counties of Virginia.
The
Virginia
Endowment for the Humanities
The
Virginia
Endowment for the
Humanities (VEH) awarded Washington and Lee politics professor Ken Ruscio a
grant for
$5,035
in
2000-2001for his project “Growth and Conservation: Lessons from the
Humanities”.
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