Donor Spotlight: Dr. Joan Develin Coley ’66

Photo of Dr. Joan Develin Coley.Dr. Joan Develin Coley ’66 established two charitable gift annuities to develop endowed funds for both faculty development and library operations and explained why she felt it was important to include Albright College in her estate plan:

“As a first-generation college student, I was unsure what to expect in my new adventure. Albright gave me the education and confidence to meet the subsequent challenges in a much larger setting for my master's and Ph.D. work. I believe deeply in the value of a liberal arts education, and I want to help make it possible for this kind of extraordinary Albright education to continue in a world where everything seems to be getting more and more impersonal.

“I fondly recall faculty members who made a difference in my life—John and Edith Douds and Bill Marlow come to mind immediately. Yet there are important names I have forgotten, like my first-year English professor who was only here for a year but took a special interest in me and in my first-year honors project. These types of faculty are the reason I chose to establish a faculty development fund.

“Most students on campus during my years remember the excitement and fun of carrying all of the books from the old library to the new Gingrich Library. I worked on the bottom floor of that library with Miss Benninger in the Registrar's Office and remember it fondly as a place for research, study, and collaboration. My endowment to help fund library operations seemed a natural extension of a critical part of the Albright experience.”

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