USD Magazine Summer 2008

Darlene Marcos Shiley , chair of USD’s board of trustees, along with her husband Donald, pledged $1 million to the new home of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, capping off the institution’s historic $206 million Campaign for the University of San Diego. This gift bookends the campaign’s earliest leadership gift of $10 million made by the Shileys toward the construction of the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology. $250,000 to support USD’s emerging Center for Catholic Thought and Culture, adding to $150,000 contributed by Stephen G. Julesgaard, bringing the total contributed so far to the center to $1.25 million. With a generous response to a special challenge grant from the Ackerman Foundation, the donor-directed Orca Fund at the San Diego Foundation has pledged $200,000 to SOLES’ Non-Profit Leadership and Management Program. The Fred J. Hansen Founda- tion contributed $190,000 in support of the Joan B. Kroc Insti- tute for Peace & Justice’s Women PeaceMakers program. The estate of the late William A. Moller provided more than $241,000 to establish the Moller Endowed Scholarship Fund in the School of Law. At last month’s 2008 Alumni Honors gala, Bert Degheri ’61 was honored as the charter member of USD’s newest donor recogni- tion level, Order of Alcalá, as the first graduate to have contributed $10 million in total gifts during his lifetime. Since 1984, Bert and his wife Patti have generously donat- ed to a wide variety of campus programs and projects. GIFTS A T W O R K Trustee Richard K. Davis and his wife Theresa pledged

MARSHALL WILLIAMS

Harry Ryan ’92 is a passionate advocate of making a green impact.

what our vendors are doing. What is their practice, their philosophy, their product?”) And, of course, there’s coffee. That on-site roaster at Aromas is capable of roasting 250 pounds of coffee a day. “It saves a lot of pack- aging, but it also brings education

and connection to the world to the students,” says Mallié. “And the quality of the product is fantastic, how much fresher can you be? It’s right on the spot.” Ryan agrees.“The whole pro- gram, the attention on the farm,

the attention on the process of get- ting it here, the emphasis on what fair-trade and organic is all about, has started an awareness. It’s teach- ing me. Each step of the way, you have to find the next way to con- serve. It’s pretty exciting.”

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