From: bobbitt@school.enet.dec.com (Jody Bobbitt)
Newsgroups: soc.women,misc.education,misc.wanted
Subject: Seeking support for seeding the Eve Geissinger Memorial Eduation Fund
Summary: Eve Geissinger was killed in an auto accident - this seeding will
Keywords: Education, Fund, Smith, Matching Gift
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:34:27 GMT
Followup-To: soc.women
Distribution: na
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation




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Announcing the EVE GEISSINGER MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT FUND

E-mail Contacts Include:

MEAGHER@CASDOC.ENET.DEC.COM (Vicki Meagher)
LYONS@RDVAX.ENET.DEC.COM (Jeanne Lyons)
CONWAY@VAXMKT.ENET.DEC.COM (Dale Conway)

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September  1992


You are invited to join in the creation of the Eve Geissinger Memorial
Endowment Fund at the Smith College School for Social Work. Eve was
attending Smith when she was killed this past June in an automobile
accident involving a drunk driver.

Eve was a vital woman, a musician, naturalist, women's advocate, and
international traveler.  Her innate gift for healing, enhanced by her
schooling at Smith, would have been of great benefit to our society.

We are a group of her friends and colleagues who are establishing an
endowment fund as a way of enabling Eve's name to live on. We hope that you
will participate with us in creating this tribute.

Each year, the Eve Geissinger Memorial Endowment Fund will provide a
stipend to a graduate student choosing field placement at a community
agency involved in overcoming violence against women.  Should there be more
than one eligible student, first preference will be given to a woman over
30 making a career change to social work--as Eve was doing.

Aid to women who suffer violence is a cause that meant a great deal to Eve. 
Even while she was pursuing her own Smith community placement, and her
ongoing work at Digital Equipment, she still found time to volunteer for
the Rape Crisis Program in Worcester. 

We realize that some of you have already made contributions to
organizations in Eve's name. Yet we'd like you to consider making another
contribution to the Memorial Endowment Fund.  The reason is that this fund
will be making a permanent, ongoing contribution in Eve's name toward
improving the life of women in need and toward aiding Smith students who
want to help them.

In order to establish this kind of endowed fund, Smith College requires
that we raise $10,000 as seed money to be invested.  To reach that goal, a
lot of us who cared about Eve's life will need to contribute.  The amount
you contribute doesn't matter--even $15 $25, or $50 will help--if we get
enough people to participate.  And of course, if we exceed that, the
money will increase the investment, and the assistance available to 
students......   

Sincerely yours,

Digital Equipment:    			Smith College:

	Sara Biyabani
	Grace Blydenburgh               Mark Horwitz ('84)
	Dale Conway                     Wenda Restall ('93)
	Susan Hosier                    Theresa St. John-Siegel ('93)
	Jeanne Lyons
	Vicki Meagher
	Barbara Schott
	Wendy Shindler
	Dan Swinehart
	Linda Thomas


P. S.	Contributions are tax-deductible and are eligible for matching
	funds from those of you who work for employers with matching
	gift programs.


If you do decide to send a check, please make it payable to Smith College.
For proper crediting to Eve's fund, please detach the form below and send
it with a contribution to:

	Smith College School for Social Work
	Office of Advancement and External Affairs
	Lilly Hall
	Northampton MA  01062

Smith will acknowledge all contributions.

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To: Smith College School for Social Work

Enclosed is my contribution of $______________ to the Eve Geissinger Memorial
Endowment Fund.


	Name:
	Address:
	Telephone:

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