For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students

Fellow Penn Staters,

    I am writing to our Minnesota Nittany Nation an open thank you letter. Why is that? I am so excited to announce that over the past 4 weeks as alumni like yourself have been renewing your local chapter dues (you have done that, haven't you?), you have graciously continued to support the Daniel S. Johnson Scholarship Endowment Fund by donating an additional $745 dollars. So why is your President getting all teary-eyed over this? Your donation in the past few weeks has officially pushed our chapter over $66,000 in our fund!!! Once we submit the recent funds to the University, our endowment will have a book value of $66,422.

    To re-freshen your memory, we initially announced at the March 2010 Annual Dinner (and formally in an email on 5/5/10) that we had a goal of raising $22,000 by June 30, 2014 which would bring our scholarship to $66,000 (an incredible 50% increase!) Not only have we met our goal, we did it in great timely fashion as well, in just 17 months!

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, to everyone who has helped us reach of this milestone by generously opening your pocket books and donating. Every dollar has helped and with over 35 months left in the For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students campaign, it goes without saying that we are going to absolutely crush our goal. Everything we do to continue to increase our endowment is only going to benefit our local students even more. I am so excited about the potential that we still have on the table - just how much can we raise!?!?

    Individual contributions can be made at the time of renewing your dues, or by sending a check, payable to PSAA-MN to:

Dan Gordon
c/o Penn State Minnesota Alumni Chapter
12840 54th Ave N
Plymouth, MN 55442

    If you are interested in obtaining a tax donation receipt, please contact me directly prior to making a contribution and I can assist you with this.

    Again, from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the students of our future, thank you.

For the Glory,

Brian Binkley '02
President
PSU MN Alumni Chapter
president@psumn.com