A $5 million gift lifted the Upward Together campaign to a total of $169 million—a record level of philanthropic support for a Whitman College campaign.
The gift will be recognized with the naming of Stegner Hall, in honor of John Stegner ’77 and Laurie (Elgee) Stegner ’80, in the college’s new junior-senior residential village. The name of the donor, a Whitman alum, will remain private at this time, at the donor’s request.
Stegner Hall (artist rendering pictured above) is the third building named, following Harvey Hall and Robart Hall, in the new junior-senior residential village. Site work is underway for the new community that will transform how students live, learn and thrive on campus. Slated to open in August 2025, the apartment-style village will provide a home for 210 students in a parklike setting along a restored College Creek and Boyer Avenue near downtown Walla Walla.
More than 14,000 alumni, families and organizations have made gifts to the Upward Together campaign on the way to surpassing the college’s previous record-holding campaign, Now Is The Time, which raised $165.7 million in 2008–2015.
“We are so fortunate to have such broad support from alumni and families to help support Whitman students and prepare them to be the leaders and thinkers that will make our communities and the world better,” says President Sarah Bolton. “We can aspire to meet the greatest potential of the college and of our students because of this exceptional philanthropy from alumni and families.”
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