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Two Major Gifts and One Challenge

In the past few months, two charitable foundations have edged Walla Walla College closer to reaching a goal of $18 million by the end of 2004.

The Peterson Family Foundation has pledged a challenge grant of $1 million. Every dollar raised in 2004 for the Faith in the Vision campaign will be matched by another gift of 50 cents—up to $1 million. The Peterson Family Foundation recently awarded this challenge grant as an incentive to the thousands of wwc alumni being asked to support the project this year.

This is the foundation’s second gift to the capital campaign. The foundation presented the college with a gift of $1 million in 2001. The gift was made in honor of JoAnne Peterson’s parents, Homer and Maudie Spaulding. Though the Spauldings never attended WWC, seven of their children did, as well as 11 of their grandchildren.

The Lindgren Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to the Faith in the Vision campaign in November 2003. The foundation, based in Eugene, Ore., is an independent foundation established in 1992 by WWC alumni.

This is the foundation’s second major gift to the campaign. A 1998 gift of $1 million went to the construction of a new cafeteria at the college’s Rosario Marine Station near Anacortes, Wash. W

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