Columbian Club gives pivotal donation to Loyola

Oct 22, 2015 803

On Sept. 2, board members and foundation trustees of the Columbian Club of Chicago presented Thomas Regan, S.J., dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Arthur Lurigio, Ph.D., senior associate dean for faculty, College of Arts and Sciences of Loyola University Chicago, with a check to complete the club's $50,000 pledge to support the creation of a Italian American Studies program at Loyola.

The Columbian Club's gift capped a successful $500,000 fundraising initiative to endow a professorship within Loyola's College of Arts and Sciences to research, preserve and promote the Italian American experience, history and culture.

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Fonte: Fra Noi

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