NoW IS The TIme Expanding library collections and international horizons The Jack Coleman Pitts and Dorothy De Simone Pitts endowment The joy of humor, the importance of planning, the worth of education, the wonder of adventure, the magic of philan- thropy, the importance of reading, the rewards of hard work, and the delight of the humanities… Jack Coleman Pitts and Dorothy De Simone Pitts These are the virtues that Janet Pitts Beckmann’s parents instilled in her and are those that she hopes to inspire in current and future Whitman students through abroad experiences that give students the opportunity her gifts to establish the Jack Coleman Pitts and Dorothy to explore linguistics and the humanities around the De Simone Pitts endowment. The endowment, named world. excitement about theNow Is the Time Campaign in honor of Beckmann’s parents, provides scholarship has prompted Janet to provide funding that will launch aid for students studying abroad and the Beckmann endowment now, prior to the generous additions to Penrose Library. planned gift from her estate. Beckmann’s connection to Janet Beckmann’s connection to Whitman deepened Whitman College developed in over the years – she and her mother became familiar an unusual way. She and her late with Whitman’s programs and people, and Janet attended husband, George m. Beckmann, a Summer College session. When Dorothy De Simone had always believed in the value of Pitts died in 2007, Janet wanted to do something for a liberal arts education. Both had Whitman in memory of her mother and her father that Janet Pitts a background in education – he would have an impact on the College as part of the Beckmann as a longtime professor of Asian campaign. In 2008, she created the Jack Coleman Pitts studies and dean and later provost at the university of and Dorothy De Simone Pitts endowment in memory Washington, and she as associate dean at the university of her devoted and loving parents, who instilled in her a of miami School of Nursing and dean of the school of respect for education and knowledge. The endowment is nursing at university of Alabama, huntsville. Both also already providing considerable yearly support for its two authored scholarly and professional books. When they purposes: study abroad and library acquisitions. started thinking about how they might make a differ- ence with charitable support, they researched small STUDY ABROAD liberal arts colleges and thought about how they could hannah Siano ’13 was a fitting supplement the transformative learning experiences recipient of the Pitts Study Abroad that take place in such a setting. Whitman was fortu- Scholarship for 2011-12. A senior nate to be among the colleges they looked at carefully. politics/environmental studies major After George’s death in 1998, Janet set out to make from everson, Washington, hannah their hopes a reality. She contacted Whitman and set up is a first generation student also the plan for the George m. and Janet Pitts Beckmann inspired by her parents: “Neither endowment to support library acquisitions and study of my parents attended college, but Hannah Siano 4
Whitman College Summer 2012 Campaign
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