{"id":107,"date":"2013-08-08T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-08-08T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:28:57","slug":"all-in-for-wesleyan-a-historic-day-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/2013\/08\/08\/all-in-for-wesleyan-a-historic-day-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All in for Wesleyan,\u201d a Historic Day of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17,\u00a0over 2,500 alumni and friends made gifts to IWU totaling over $450,000.\u00a0Unless otherwise specified by donors, all the money raised went to student scholarships and financial aid.\u00a0 The &#8220;All in for Wesleyan&#8221; challenge began when Illinois Wesleyan Trustee John Horton &#8217;82 and his wife, Joann, offered a gift of $100,000 if alumni and friends could raise $50,000 in one day.\u00a0 When that challenge was met, several more challenges followed &#8212; and each was fulfilled.\u00a0 Howard &#8217;60 and Sharon &#8217;60 Fricke offered a $10,000 gift if 600\u00a0donors participated.\u00a0 Ed &#8217;62 and Lin Phelps\u00a0then\u00a0offered $25,000\u00a0for 1,000 total donors.\u00a0 Korey &#8217;00 and Heidi Coon offered a $15,000 challenge\u00a0for\u00a01,200\u00a0donors.\u00a0 Dr. Mike Sombeck &#8217;83\u00a0offered $25,000 if we could reach 1,500.\u00a0\u00a0Finally, at the end of the day,\u00a0Dr. Randy &#8217;73 &amp; Jodie Reed offered $25,000 and Ed &#8217;62 &amp; Lin Phelps added $10,000 more to match every new gift, dollar for dollar&#8230;up to a total of $35,000 in\u00a0gifts before\u00a0midnight.<\/p>\n<p>It was an exciting day to be a Titan.\u00a0\u00a0The challenge\u00a0became about so much more than numbers and dollars and donors.\u00a0 It provided our alumni and friends with a chance to share their pride and explain how much IWU means to them.\u00a0 If you weren&#8217;t following these conversations on social media, you can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/IL_Wesleyan\/all-in-for-wesleyan-1\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to read them now.\u00a0\u00a0THANK YOU to all of our loyal alumni and friends who made July 17 an incredible day for our school and our students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"All-In-For-Wesleyan-logo2-tag (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/files\/2013\/08\/All-In-For-Wesleyan-logo2-tag-2-300x162.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17,\u00a0over 2,500 alumni and friends made gifts to IWU totaling over $450,000.\u00a0Unless otherwise specified by donors, all the money raised went to student scholarships and financial aid.\u00a0 The &#8220;All in for Wesleyan&#8221; challenge began when Illinois Wesleyan Trustee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/2013\/08\/08\/all-in-for-wesleyan-a-historic-day-of-giving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}