WMU HOME > ABOUT WMU > WMU NEWS Trustees receive gift report Dec. 20, 2004 KALAMAZOO--During the three-month period of Aug. 1 to Oct. 31, Western Michigan University received gifts totaling $3,232,242, bringing the year-to-date total since the July 1 start of the fiscal year to $4,058,064. A report at the Dec. 10 meeting of the WMU Board of Trustees indicates the current fiscal-year total is approximately 50 percent of the $8.1 million received during the first four months of the previous fiscal year. The year-to-year difference can be credited entirely to a few very large gifts and pledge payments, which were received in July 2003 for the university's now-concluded Centennial Campaign. Omitting July from the comparisons, the amount received August through October 2004 is $653,590 or 20 percent more than for the same three months one year ago, according to Bud Bender, WMU vice president for development and executive director of the WMU Foundation. Media contact: Thom Myers, 269 387-8400, thom.myers@wmich.edu WMU News Office of University Relations Western Michigan University 1903 W Michigan Ave Kalamazoo MI 49008-5433 USA 269 387-8400 www.wmich.edu/wmu/news