Focus on Planned Giving
Legacy Society: Dan and 凯西Milligan
For Legacy Society members 但Milligan， BA ' 91，和 凯西Milligan, BA ’91 MBA ’95, their planned gift to UD will honor Kathy’s father, 查尔斯·T. Uhl, who had served UD’s IT Department and passed a道路 after battling Alzheimer’s, and
also will recognize their shared love for the Rome Program, which transformed their
自己的生活.
Professor, Alumnus Provides Gift of a Lifetime for Future Doctoral Students
“I have had the strange experience of twice being a UD student, and so this university
has shaped my character and my life,” said UD alumnus and Associate Professor of English
安德鲁·莫兰, BA ’91 PhD ’04. In his estate plan, Moran has generously provided for scholarships
benefiting literature students in UD’s Institute of Philosophic Studies, the doctorate-granting division of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.
Alumnus, Former Rome Instructor Provides for Rome Scholarship in Estate Plan
Desiring to give back to the UD community, 吉姆Petzel, BA ’75, provided in his will for scholarships for students to go to Rome — those
who, like himself as a student, might not otherwise get to and who might not even
consider it due to the financial strain it would put on their families. Petzel的财产
gift, The James Petzel Rome Semester Scholarship, will ensure that future students
can participate in the life-changing experience of the Rome Program.
校友 Aim to Leave a Legacy of Transformation
From University 达拉斯 undergraduates to benefactors who have provided for the
university in their wills, 迈克·珀金斯1978年，BA和 Sharon (Kapavik) Perkins, BA ’79 MA ’89, have a relationship with UD that has evolved over time, not unlike
that between children and parents: “Like one’s adult kids, we’ve come back home at
various intervals,” explained Sharon Perkins. “There’s a reason your university is
called your ‘alma mater’.”
Alumna, Retired Teacher Hopes to Make a Difference Through Education
Estelle (Tovar) Lara, BA ’67 MA ’74, has observed the impact of 教育 in her own children’s lives
and feels that the only 道路 to make a lasting difference for other people is through
教育. As a public school teacher, she saw the difficult situations some of her
students and their families were in, and she knew that only through a strong 教育
would these children be able to lift themselves beyond those challenges in a significant
道路. Therefore, about 10 years ago, she sat down with her financial advisor and wrote
the University 达拉斯 into her estate plan.
Alumna Hopes Her Gift Will Help Others Live Their Best Lives
Widowed at age 30, Joy (Davis) Kirsch, BA ’85, didn’t really know how to move forward. She was already a financial planner
and had worked with many 寡妇, but she’d had no clue what it was like to go through
such a traumatic event. She realized that it was more than a technical business –
it was also a very personal one. Through her own experience, she was motivated to
change her focus to other clients who were going through life-changing events, specifically
寡妇. A similar motivation to help others live their best lives led Kirsch to the
decision to include UD in her estate plan.