Virgie and I feel strongly about this fellowship because graduate students made my program. - Stanley Peloquin (’51 MS ALS, ’52 PhD L&S), who with wife Vergie created the Peloquin Graduate Training and Research Fund |
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- 150 people are employed at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, including 44 directors or senior directors of development and 10 students.
- 120 students also are hired to place calls during evening hours to alumni and friends to ask for gifts to specific projects. In addition to their pay, they get free pizza most Friday evenings.
- 44 phone lines are available for student callers and 1,100 contacts can be made each night.
- In 2006, the UW Foundation received 126,090 gifts, totaling $193,010,650.10. $3.8 million of that was raised by student callers.
- The building is unusual in design and construction. The exterior is made of a five-layer aluminum sandwich of polyurethane paint, aluminum, plastic polymer core, aluminum and poly paint. The exterior finish is so slippery that graffiti wipes off easily.
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