Your path: Marylhurst Hits the Bricks
Marylhurst Sale Hits the Bricks
Excerpt from an article by Cliff Newell in The Lake Oswego Review,
April 24, 2008.
Does Marylhurst University have a brick for you!
In fact, 10,000 of them. Enough to push the university's $25 million Renaissance fundraising campaign to a successful conclusion.
Certainly, Marylhurst officials could not have raised all of that money just by selling bricks. In fact, the campaign has utilized a relatively short list of generous donors to reach its goal.
It's true that most people can't fork over a $10,000 donation. But they can buy a brick for $100 (or if they are really inspired, a bench for $500 or a lamp post for $2,500). A brick is a fine way to memorialize a loved one and also pave the way to the future for a university that is making tremendous strides.
For many, buying a brick or bench is a sentimental journey, memorializing a mother (with Mother's Day coming May 11), grandmother or friend with Marylhurst connections.
On many brick sale campaigns, memorials are inscribed right on the bricks. Instead, Marylhurst will erect a monument and inscribe the names of all people contributing to the campaign.
The campaign will conclude on June 30, which also happens to be the final day in office for Marylhurst University's president Nancy Wilgenbusch.
For more information about Marylhurst University's Buy A Brick campaign, call Sandy Pittenger at 503.699.6251.