Fund-Raising, 1907-2006, Undated

Series 2 contains records related to Alumni Association fund-raising activities. Please note that the bulk of the series is from the years 1963-1983 with the further majority of this within the decade of the 1970s.

The earliest fund-raising records are from the first half of the 20th Century and address student loan funds and the Husted Fellowship. Materials document who is eligible for loans, minutes and activities of the beneficiary aid committee, and contributions to the Husted Fellowship.

Later records from the 1960s document Project Carillon, the fund-raising effort by the Alumni Association to build the Carillon tower which has become a symbol of the University's Uptown Campus. This includes Project Carillon ledgers, lists of pledges, records, events, and general information. The remainder of the series is from the 1970s and 1980s and is composed of correspondence, attendance sheets, donor lists, and balance sheets relating to the Annual Fund in general and the Phonothon specifically.

Lists of dues payers and balance sheets relating to income from association dues are scattered throughout, as are estate bequests and matching grants. Bequests include information of solicitation of retired alumni, a letter from an alumna suggesting such an action, and several examples of wills or notices of probates showing the results. The matching grants include pamphlets from both the Alumni Association and participating companies such as General Electric. There are also lists and records of the alumni who qualified and participated in those programs.

Reports such as “A Study of Attitudes and Funding Potentialities of the State University of New York At Albany" and "Visions of Progress" a report conducted by the Alumni Association in 1976 on its own efforts may also be found in this series.