Annual Report of Giving Stories
12/19/2025
2005 Graduate鈥檚 Continuous Philanthropic Support Provides Opportunities for New Generations of Students
Leadership expert and author John C. Maxwell wrote, 鈥淪mall disciplines repeated with consistency lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.鈥� Bethany Weise 鈥�05 exemplifies that idea with 21 consecutive years of gifts to the Franklin...
12/15/2025
Sustaining the Living Classroom: Research and Reflection at Spalding Conservancy
Tom and Gina Russo鈥檚 connection to the Spalding Conservancy began years ago through the proximity of their home to the preserved space. Their relationship with the land and its ecosystem, however, didn鈥檛 begin to flourish until about five years...
12/05/2025
鈥淲e Made Something out of Nothing鈥�: Remembering More Than 50 Years of F&M Women鈥檚 Squash
F&M women's squash pioneer Elizabeth Mackey 鈥�75 looks back on the program more than 50 years later.
03/17/2025
A Love for Liberal Arts: Mark Lewis 鈥�77
A voracious appetite for reading began at an early age for Mark Lewis 鈥�77. That love for learning guided Lewis to F&M and continues to inspire him to give back to the College. A donor since 1987, Lewis is a recent inductee into the John Marshall...
03/11/2025
Supporting Future Diplomats
鈥淚 look back and appreciate my time as a student-athlete at F&M, and I want to support that for future F&M students,鈥� Jennifer Dubow 鈥�04 says. 鈥淭hrough my work, I've seen how athletic departments are never fully funded, even though many from...
02/05/2025
Helping to Make F&M鈥檚 Caring Community Available to Others
Karis Mardirossian 鈥�24 is the youngest child of her parents, Marianne and Aris. She found exactly what she was looking for in a college, and what she needed, at F&M. Her parents were so pleased with Karis鈥� experience, they wanted to help other...