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The Clark Endowment on May 31, 2005 was valued at $204.2 million, as compared to last year’s level of $186.3 million. The great majority of these funds have been provided to the University over its 118-year history by generous alumni and other supporters who have chosen to benefit Clark and its students in perpetuity. These donors have asked that their original gifts be invested, and that the annual income thereon be used to support the intended programs, primarily scholarships, fellowships and faculty chairs. The University’s total invested funds have grown in recent years, due both to investment performance and charitable contributions from generous Clark alumni and friends.
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Collector's Passion Enriches Holocaust Studies
The shelves in the Rose Library at the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies are filling up quickly thanks to the generosity of Diana Bartley, a financial consultant, journalist and avid book collector. In 1999, Bartley had sized up the walls of books in her New York apartment and decided to put the more than 1,800 Holocaust-related titles to greater use, donating them to the center.
This was but a first installment, as this self-described book woman's personal goal is to collect and donate at least 10,000 books at a ra te of 500 annually to the center. As a daughter of a Navy captain, Bartley says she closely followed newspaper accounts of the war in Europe when she was teenager and was aghast when she learned of the Nazi atrocities. The Holocaust has been one focus of her book collecting ever since—a passion transformed into purpose.
Just five years after making her first gift to the Strassler Center, Bartley is more than half way there. In 2004, Clark received its seventh gift of Holocaust and genocide publications, consisting of 629 books, 12 journals and 2 videos currently valued at $30,864. To date, she has collected and donated to the center about 5,200 books and numerous journals and videos valued at over $220,000. Among them are many sets of rare books, collector editions and encyclopedias. The extraordinary collection, covering Holocaust history, sociology, photography, memoir, fiction, poetry, plays, psychology and religion, has enabled Clark to train the first doctoral c andidates in Holocaust history in North America.
"Diana Bartley's gift enriches the center immeasurably," says Debórah Dwork, professor of Holocaust history and director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. "What is not so obvious, but is of even greater import, is the extent to which her gift enriches the field of Holocaust and genocide studies through its impact on our graduate students. Her unique collection covers the canon of classic works and cutting-edge new research. Our doctoral candidates, studying for their comprehensive exams, stand on the shoulders of giants, as it were."
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President's Report 2005
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