Donor Stories
The impact of giving through wills and life income gifts can be seen and experienced all across campus. In roommates who come from opposite corners of the globe to climb a mountain on a cool autumn day. In a state-of-the-art lab where a professor and students create renewable energy technology. In a dorm room late at night where students come together to establish a global nonprofit organization to empower people around the world.
Gifts like the ones established by the supporters below further Mount Holyoke’s mission to prepare the next generation for purposeful leadership in a culturally diverse world. Learn how you, too, can create a legacy at Mount Holyoke.
Investing in Mount Holyoke
Helen Davis ’76
Mount Holyoke equipped health care management professional Helen Davis ’76 “to lead, to question and to not be fearful about pushing back.” In honor of her fiftieth Reunion, Helen made a provision in her estate plan to create a scholarship at her alma mater that will provide future students with life-changing confidence.
Irene Marianos ’99
For first-generation college student Irene Marianos ’99, the seeds of enduring personal growth were planted at Mount Holyoke. By establishing a flexible charitable gift annuity that will one day provide her with a steady source of income, she experiences “a trifecta of benefit for my current self, my future self” and the College.
Susan Wait ’73
Psychiatrist Susan Wait ’73 hopes that Mount Holyoke will continue to be a place where students feel “safe, empowered and supported.” This led her to name the College as a beneficiary of her retirement account and last year, she furthered her commitment by creating a charitable gift annuity using a qualified charitable distribution from her IRA.
Katherine Turner Alben ’69
Through her family’s Mary B. Haberzetle Turner Charitable Remainder Unitrust, Katherine Turner Alben ’69 is providing a “life-sustaining” education to future Mount Holyoke students. “Mount Holyoke provided me an education that served me well for my whole life. It’s that simple.”
Heidi Coutu ’79 and John Maturo
“Transformational,” is how Heidi Coutu ’79 describes her Mount Holyoke education. With a bequest, she’s proud “to nurture this place, where women from around the world can flourish and develop that fearlessness that is part of Mount Holyoke.”