The Alumnae Council Birthday Greeting Campaign

This annual campaign is an appeal exclusively to alumnae and women who support the U-M. Eula dePriest Marcks ('33) originated the Birthday Greeting Campaign in 1961, inviting alumnae to contribute one penny for every year of the University's history (today's request seeks twenty-five cents per year).  More than $1.5 million has been donated in support of programs that benefit women on one of the university's three campuses.  

The 2010 campaign benefits the Elizabeth (Libby) Douvan Junior Scholar Fund in Life Course Development. This fund was established by the students, colleagues, and friends of Libby Douvan to honor her life and work by encouraging research agendas in Life Course Development and supporting junior researchers in the departments where Libby spend most of her intellectual life. The Fund was designed to give a helping hand to senior graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, and junior faculty members with research agendas in Life Course Development and affiliation with the Department of Psychology, the Women's Studies Program, or the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Scholars at this point in their careers are often at their most creative and productive and most fragile. Libby is fondly remembered for her skill and caring in assisting researchers through this stage of their careers. If you would like to make a donation, please download a donation form or contact the Birthday Greeting Chair, Mary Kinley, birthdaygreeting@alumnaecouncil.org for more information.

At its April 17, 2010 meeting, the Alumnae Council approved the UM-Dearborn's Student Outreach and Academic Resources (SOAR) Laptop Loan Program as its 2011 Birthday Greeting recipient.