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Annual Reports :
2003 : 2003 Annual Report
A gold funeral medal for Washington's interment is part
of the latest gift from the Lassers of Scarsdale, New York.
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This treasury note issued in Montreal in 1759 is also in
the Lasser collection of colonial currency and coins.
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Among the individuals who generously
supported Colonial Williamsburg in 2003 were senior trustees, National Council
members, and honorary campaign co-chairs Abby and George O'Neill of Oyster Bay,
New York, who endowed a chair, the Abby and George O'Neill Director of the John
D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, with a gift of $1.5 million.
Trustee and National
Council members John Donnell Jr. and his wife, Marcia, of Atlanta, Georgia,
added to the Marcia and John R. Donnell Jr. Historic Area Preservation Fund,
bringing their support of the Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg to $1 million.
A $1 million
trustee and National Council members gift from Dick and Shirley Roberts of
Virginia Beach, Virginia, endowed the position of Shirley and Richard Roberts
Architectural Historian.
Carolyn and James
Millar of Atlanta, Georgia, made a $1 million planned gift.
Ruth and Joe Lasser
of Scarsdale, New York, donated colonial coins, medals, and currency to the
Lasser Coin Collection at Colonial Williamsburg, which they began with earlier
gifts. This is a collection-transforming gift of great value.
The Lassers, Martha
and Richard Girard of McLean, Virginia, and James Welsh of Fairborn, Ohio,
notified Colonial Williamsburg of bequest expectancies, and an unanticipated
bequest from the estate of Mrs. Willard Hoffmire provided $1.2 million. Mr. and
Mrs. Hoffmire visited Colonial Williamsburg during World War II when he was
stationed in Virginia. They became annual supporters in the 1980s and members
of the Colonial Williamsburg Burgesses in 1989. Their belief in the importance
of Colonial Williamsburg's educational mission led to their bequest.
In addition to
endowment support of $7.9 million from the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund to
support the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, the DeWitt Wallace
Collections and Conservation Building, and educational outreach, gifts from
institutional donors included a $1.3 million grant from the City of
Williamsburg for marketing, a $339,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
grant for support of a digital archive of research documents on colonial
American history, archaeology, and architecture, and a contribution of $100,000
from AT&T in memory of foundation chairman emeritus Charles L. Brown. A
$177,500 discretionary grant from the Norfolk Foundation helped to meet a
$200,000 challenge grant from a private Richmond foundation to complete
reconstruction of the Peyton Randolph outbuildings.
Corporations, foundations, and individuals contributed
nearly $39 million to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 2003, bringing
the comprehensive Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg total to $360.6 million.
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