Annual Report of Giving Stories

03/17/2025

A Love for Liberal Arts: Mark Lewis ’77

A voracious appetite for reading began at an early age for Mark Lewis ’77. That love for learning guided Lewis to F&M and continues to inspire him to give back to the College. A donor since 1987, Lewis is a recent inductee into the John Marshall...

03/11/2025

Supporting Future Diplomats

“I look back and appreciate my time as a student-athlete at F&M, and I want to support that for future F&M students,” Jennifer Dubow ’04 says. “Through my work, I've seen how athletic departments are never fully funded, even though many from...

02/05/2025

Helping to Make F&M’s Caring Community Available to Others

Karis Mardirossian ’24 is the youngest child of her parents, Marianne and Aris. She found exactly what she was looking for in a college, and what she needed, at F&M. Her parents were so pleased with Karis’ experience, they wanted to help other...

01/06/2025

Wrestling Scholarships Create Opportunity for F&M’s Historic Program

Franklin & Marshall Wrestling is one of the oldest and most successful sports at the College, and to this day wrestling is the College’s only NCAA Division I program. In January 2024, F&M celebrated the 100th anniversary of wrestling as an intercollegiate...

Day of Giving Challenges Inspire Student Philanthropy

During F&M's fifth annual Day of Giving, gifts from students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends helped the College exceeded our goal and secure $558,000 for F&M students. That success is due in part to challenges offered by members of the...

Endowment Brings Environmental Studies to Life

Roselyn Ovalles ’26 took her scientific studies to a new level thanks to the Schapiro-Cadwell Internship Endowment, which funded a five-week internship with the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association (LSRA).