The North Texan, Volume 44, Number 4, December 1994 Page: 19
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UNT planned giving officer here to help
By Doug Chadwick
Sometimes a gift to the University of
North Texas requires a good bit of plan-
ning. The size of the gift, the type of
asset, the need for retirement income, the
tax consequences, the coordination of the
gift plan - these are a few of the ques-
tions and concerns a donor may face. To
help with the gift-planning process, I am
the planned giving officer at the
University of North Texas who is avail-
able to assist you. What can you expect
from me?
1. I will honor your confidences.
Making a gift out of your estate assets
may touch sensitive concerns regarding
personal wealth and family expectations.
Mortality tables and legacy provisions
can arouse anxious feelings. I will be
sensitive to your concerns and will
respect your privacy.
2. I will provide information. I have a
wealth of information about various giftvehicles and the opportunities available
to you here at UNT. I also can provide
tailor-made illustrations showing the
workings and benefits of a particular
planned gift.
3. I will meet with your advisers.
Sometimes a gift plan can be confusing
and difficult to explain. I am able to dis-
cuss the plan in detail with your advisers
so they have a good grasp of what you
desire to do. This can save time and
expense.
4. I will help coordinate your plan. I
am good at fitting all the puzzle pieces
together. I will help orchestrate the gift
process with a checklist of steps and will
encourage the various parties (UNT's
Gift Acceptance Committee, your profes-
sional advisers, etc.) to meet your plan-
ning deadlines. I'll move the process
along and make your gift giving more
enjoyable for you.
5. I will provide ongoing contact. Onceyour gift is made, I will maintain contact
with you to ensure that you are informed
about the results of your gift and to keep
you in close touch with UNT. UNT val-
ues planned gift donors and I will let you
know this again and again.
While I can assist you in planning
your gift, there are some things I will not
do. I will not: twist your arm to get a gift
for UNT; purposely hide important infor-
mation from you; or attempt to be your
legal or financial counselor. In fact, for
your protection, I will insist that you
obtain independent counsel from your
own professional advisers before you
make your gift.
UNT greatly appreciates generous
friends who carefully plan their gifts. If
you would like me to help you in this-
process, please call me at (817) 565-
2900.
Editor's note: Doug Chadwick is the
director of planned giving in the office of
advancement.Annual Fund helps students achieve goals
The University of North Texas cam-
pus is filled with students who all share
a common dream - to obtain a college
degree and use it to reach their goals
and build a successful life.
As parents, alumni and friends of
UNT, you can help make this dream a
reality by contributing to the Annual
Fund.
The Annual Fund, a yearly fund-
raising effort, was extremely successful
last year. The total number of gifts re-
ceived for the Annual Fund from
September 1993 to August 1994 was
$190,259, according to Ellie
Mandviwalla, assistant director of the
Annual Fund.
The Annual Fund campaign for fis-
cal year 1994-95 began Sept. I. As of
Oct. 25, it had received more than
$26,000 in pledges.
"'I am very fortunate to come on
board and join an annual fund that is so
successful," says Kristie Patton, the new
director who took over fund-raising
activities Nov. 1.
"In an effort to further increase the
fund's productivity, I have proposed
several plans to encourage new donors."
Patton says.
Money raised in the Annual Fund
goes toward meeting the needs of the
university that are not funded by the
state.
The Annual Fund conducts several
campaigns during the year, through
written appeals and through the
Phonathon program. Three of the cam-
paigns are currently under way.
One is the Loyalty Fund, which
began in September, during which stu-
dents contact alumni to raise unrestrict-
ed gifts for the university.In November, both the Denton
County Campaign and the Parent Fund
began. The Denton County Campaign is
an opportunity for Denton County alum-
ni and businesses to show their support
for UNT through annual contributions
and their involvement with the campus.
The Parent Fund is a campaign to fund
the annual Parent Association
Scholarship and support special campus
development projects.
The Annual Fund's campaign for
schools and colleges, in which unre-
stricted funds are raised for academic
departments, begins in the spring. The
Athletic Drive, a campaign to support
men's and women's athletics programs,
begins in the summer.
State funds provide a little more
than half, or 59 percent, of UNT's oper-
ating expenses. All state money for
UNT is designated for specific purposes
such as curriculum, salaries, equipment
and facilities.
Money raised for the Annual Fund
allows flexibility in meeting priority
needs on campus such as funding schol-
arships. The money also provides sup-
port for academic programs, research,
faculty development and programs that
benefit the entire university community.
When you contribute to the Annual
Fund, you are contributing to the growth
and development of this country's future
leaders. A gift of any size will make an
important difference in the lives of the
students who attend UNT.
In making a gift to the fund, you
can request that it benefit a particular
academic program, school or college.
You also may direct your gifts to UNT's
athletic programs or the Parent Fund.
Gifts to the Annual Fund also may be
unspecified.When you make such an unrestrict-
ed gift to UNT's Loyalty Fund, your
support is directed to places where it is
needed the most, including student
scholarships and important programs
and services.
A gift of cash entitles you to an
income tax charitable deduction for the
year in which you make the gift. You
may make your gift by credit card.
A gift to the Annual Fund may be
doubled or even tripled, with no further
cost to you, if you or your spouse work
for a company with a matching gift pro-
gram. Many companies also match gifts
made by their retirees.
Annual donors of $1,000 or more
are honored by the university with
membership in the President's Council.
The council is a distinguished group of
alumni, corporations and friends of the
university who support the university
financially and represent the university
at socials events and in the business
community.
Up to 50 percent of the council
member's gift is for unrestricted use by
the university. The remaining 50 percent
may be designated for use solely in an
academic unit or program specified by
the member.
Creating donor recognition at sever-
al monetary levels is a goal Patton hopes
to reach. "One plan is to extend the lev-
els of our donor giving clubs," she says.
"The various club levels would allow
recognition for donors who participate
at lower levels."
For more information about the
UNT Annual Fund, call Kristie Patton,
director of the Annual Fund, UNT office
of advancement, (817) 565-2900.
- Dorothy GentryEditor's note: Alumni in the News selectively
spotlights alumni who have been featured in
the news media.
A profile of JON CERMIN, a UNT radio,
television and film program alumnus, appears
in "Thumbnail Sketches" in the Nov. 14 Fort
Worth Star-Telegram. Cermin is described as
"one of the busiest directors of photography in
North Texas."
JOHN McKAY, former NT music major
and current music minister for Encounter
Crusade, is mentioned in an Oct. 24 Paris,
Texas, News article about the crusade opening
in Paris. The article states that McKay "gave
up a full scholarship to the famed Juilliard
School of Music in order to pursue a ministry
in church music .... "
Alumni FRANK HAMES and JOHN
BRYANT, who met as students at NT and
played in the One O'Clock Lab Band together,
are featured in an Aug. 14 article in The Dallas
Morning News about their music compositions.
They wrote the music for the television docu-
mentary Lions of Darkness and the film Curse
of the Starving Class. To win the job for
Curse, the article says, "the partners produced
a score for a crucial scene between stars James
Woods and Kathy Bates. The music was a hit
... so much so that it became the main theme
for the film ...."
An Aug. 6 Dallas Morning News article
about a jazz quartet in Oak Cliff mentions the
bassist JEFF PICKERING, a former NT
music and accounting student who now has his
own accounting firm. In describing Pickering's
passion for jazz, the article states that "songs
like Georgia, Tenor Madness and Birk's Works
send jolts of electricity through him."
GEORGE DUNHIAM and CRAIG
MILLER, 1988 UNT alumni and hosts of a
sports talk show on radio station KTCK, dis-
cuss in the July 22 Denton Record-Chronicle
how they have made room for 11-year-old
sports prodigy Bobby Crook of Lewisville to
become a permanent fixture on their show.
Alumnus BILLY MICHAELIS, who
studied architecture at NT in the '70s, is fea-tured in a July 17 Denton Record-Chronicle
article about his life as an award-winning
mosaic artist. The article states that the courses
he took at NT led him to a job installing tile
water lines in swimming pools. Eventually he
put "a little flair" into his pool work. "I'd be
doing a pool and I'd suggest a (mosaic) turtle
here or a little fish there," he says.
A July 1 Dallas Morning News article says
that the Eagles' "Hell Freezes Over" tour stop
in Dallas, led by UNT alumnus DON HEN-
LEY ('70), was the highest-grossing concert in
Texas history at $4 million.
DAVID LINDSEY ('70), author of eight
murder tales, has established his own "gory
niche" in the mystery-writing world. Lindsey
is recognized in July's Texas Monthly for his
most recent novel, An Absence of Light.
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