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•• MINUTES MEETING OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE The Board of Trustees TIlE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO May 14, 1985 May 14, 1985 Tuesday River ·Club 9:00 a.m. Attending: Mr. Crary, Mrs. (Morse) Desforges, Messrs. Devine, Hedlund, Hyde, Jungers, Drs. Lamont, Pedersen, Pelowski, Mrs. Thorne, Mr. Wadsworth. NOTE: Messrs. Crary, Devine~ Wadsworth, and Mrs. Thorne were sitting in as members of the Deferred Giving Sub-Committee. 1. The agenda was approved. 2. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved. 3. Status report of the development campaign: Mr. Hedlund, co-chairman of the Development Committee, asked Dr. Pelowski to comment on the campaign status to date. Dr. Pelowski mentioned some recent movement in Egypt, highlighting in particular the work done by Alex Shalaby and Frank Jungers jointly in producing a $75,000 gift from AT&T. He also mentioned recent notification of a $75,000 gift from Marriott Hotels to name a classroom at AUC and commended Harry Bosschaart on his work in supporting this request to head­quarters. And Kate Hughes was commended for her work on Squibb. Dr. Pelowski stated that despite his hope that there would no longer be any staff changes he had to inform the committee that Barbro Ek would be leaving this summer, but that he had hired her replacement, Mrs. Barbara Miller. He com~ mended Barbro on her good work during her two years in the Cairo development office and told the committee he had every confidence in Mrs. Miller's ability to replace Mrs. Ek. Dr. Pelowski also touched lightly on the work being done by alumni to raise money and in particular mentioned a class gift being donated this year for the first time in AUC's history. Dr. Pelowski then went on to describe the recent turndown from the King Faisal Foundation in response to the University's request for a $12 million grant. He said that word was received from a foundation program officer, not one of the Princes, and that there was no elaboration as to why the grant was not approved. Both Mr. Hedlund and Dr. Pedersen commented that the $12 million might have been too ambitious, as suggested by Sheikh Kamal· Adham; Mr. Hedlund also said that asking for an endowed chair could have posed a problem due to previous bad experiences the Kingdom had had. Mr. Jungers felt that it was a bad sign being turned down by a program officer, indicating that such a decision had come from the top. Mr. Hedlund asked Dr. Pelowski to make sure that all future submissions are reviewed by both hi