Increasing numbers of friends and alumni are supporting Oxford College during Campaign Emory with planned gifts to fund facilities, scholarships, programs, and other needs.
Oxford alumnus Warren Brook 70Ox 72B and his wife, Kathy, have included Oxford in their estate plans to ensure the physical preservation of historic buildings on the campus. “I’ve always been interested in antiques and history. Those are the things I thought important,” he says.
Brook and his wife, Kathy, who has been an enthusiastic supporter of Oxford, made the decision together. “Our gift is pretty much what’s left of our estate after we’re gone,” he explains. “We don’t have any children, my siblings and their families are all in decent shape. I’d like to see Oxford College continue on as long as it can based on what it’s done for me and for other alums.”
Like the Brooks, Penny England has included Oxford in her will. A longtime professor of physical education at Oxford, England considers her Oxford colleagues and students her “other family.”
There are many types of planned, or deferred, gifts, many of which offer tax benefits or can even provide life income.
“It’s something that anybody can do, no matter what your financial situation or where you are in life—with small children or headed to retirement,” says Marvlyn Kirk, manager of development services at Oxford. When Kirk and her husband were creating their wills, she told him, “I also want to give a percentage to Oxford because I work in fund-raising and I know what the needs are.”
For more information about planned giving at Oxford, contact Kirk at 770.784.8447 or mekir@emory.edu.
Pictured above, left to right: Warren Brook, Penny England, and Marvlyn Kirk.
October 2009
