Sue Moryan P ’08,’12
My husband and I support the Parents Fund because we know the cost of tuition doesn’t fully cover the cost of educating our children. Supporting the Annual Fund and the Parents Fund helps close that gap between what tuition covers and what a Washington and Lee education actually costs. Things like maintenance of this beautiful campus, sports teams, theater, any extracurricular activities that students may be involved in—the Annual Fund and the Parents Fund help cover those costs and make Washington and Lee the vibrant place that it is.
Bill Urquhart P ’11
A university is nothing more than the sum of its people, and probably the most important people in a university are its professors. If you can’t attract and keep the best and brightest, your children are not going to enjoy as wonderful an experience as the people who have gone before them.
Michele Harris P ’12
I just gave to the annual fund via the website. I just wanted to let you, and hopefully others if you choose to pass this on, know that as a single mother who works as a teacher at a private school, discretionary funds are even more discretionary, as they are for all of us, these days. Although I wish I could give more, having been a Director of Development and having given to the schools I have worked at for 12 years I hope that the little bit I can give at this time helps some and perhaps at least serves as an expression of my gratitude. Upon my daughter Kelly’s graduation in 2012 I know that she too will support W and L for the same reasons I am, among them, as thanks for the nurturing and challenge, both academically and personally, she is receiving right now as a student, and in the hopes that many students who come after her will have the same good fortune. Although my gift is small, my thanks is great – and how can thanks for caring for my child be considered discretionary?
