Loyal support from dedicated individuals and the prudent and attentive management of funds by Doane’s trustees have resulted in an endowment fund of approximately $118.8 million (as of December 2021). Net tuition paid by the Crete campus students provides less than half the necessary funds to operate the university. Income from the endowment provides scholarships to students, support for faculty, and contributes to the necessary operating budget of the university. However, the need is always great for additional gifts to meet current expenses.
Endowed Chairs
Katherine M. Buell-Carl O. Carlson Professor of Natural Science
George B. Hastings Professor of Fine Arts
Ardis Butler James Endowed Chair for the Liberal and Fine Arts
A.R. Kinney Professor of Business and Economics
Dwight E. Porter Professor of Education
Kenneth R. Rossman Professor of History
The Walter S. Waas & J. Edward Pallett Chair of Economics
Endowment and General Funds
It is not possible to list all gifts to the endowment or restricted general funds, however, most established funds are listed below. The income from many of these, in accordance with the donors’ requests, is to be used for specific purposes.
Bernice Adams
Margaret Emily Adams
Lou & Jo Albrecht
Margaret H. Aldrich
Alexander Technique
Charles L. & Iris West Aller
Alumni Fund
Anderson Family
A. W. Anderson
Edna Ogden Anderson
Olsie M. Anderson
Artist in Residence Fund
Herbert R. Atkins
Athletic Directorship
W. Thomas & Corinne Auld
Clarinda M. Barlow
Genevieve Bartlett
Bates Binding Library Fund
Beatrice Congregational
Philip Stewart Becker Award
George Beitel
Lorntine Berg
Kathryn Bender Boekel
Charles Boswell Professorship
Charles Minor Boswell Library Fund
John Sewall Brown Professorship
James & Marlene Bruning Teaching Award (Class of 1959)
Kathryn L. Buck Library Fund
Mabel H. Buck
Louisa M. Buell
C. L. “Bill” & Catharine Carns
Vance & Gladys Carns
Chadron Academy
Benjamin Chapin
Mr. & Mrs. Frank H. Chickering
Chilcoat Family
Irene Mortensen Church
City of Crete
Sam & Janet Johnson Clarke
Lucille S. Cobb Lectureship
Dr. Carl J. Cornelius, Jr.
Crete Professorship
Mrs. R.W.T. Crowell
Eldon E. Darrington Estate
James W. Dawes Prize
Rev. J.B. Dawes Prize
Caroline “Carrie” Dean
Edwin B. Dean
Samuel Chase Dean Library Fund
Doane College Alumni Professorship
Doane Family
Barbara M. Doane
Stanley R. & Faye D. Doane
D. Howard Doane/Archives Fund
Nancy W. Doane Faculty Enhancement
Thomas Doane
Charles & Hazel Turner Drake
Alberta M. Dredla & Bernice D. Sanderson Research Series
Barbara Winslade Dugdale
A. James & Elouise Ebel
Elgin Congregational Church
Arthur B. Fairchild Professorship
Jason M. Farrar
Dr. Jean P. Feese
Rev. James B. Fiske Prize
H. A. French
Kenneth E. & Marjorie A. Fridrich
Improvement of Human & Planetary Health
John & Rosa Fuhrer
Homer & Marjory Gausman
Effie Geer
Mrs. Louis Gellately
Maurine Stiles Gettinger
Robert & Clarice McLeod Goodall
Helen M. Gorder
Melvin & Doreen Ostrander Gottschalg
C. Loren & Esther Barns Graham
Larry D. Green ‘70
J. Taylor & Martha Greer
Annadora F. Gregory
George & Mary Foss Gregory
Rev. Lewis Gregory
Everett & Mildred Gross
George & Sally Haddix Center Fund
Haddix Research Fund
Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Hainer
Gerald & Lynn Hallas
Zenon C.R. Hansen Leadership Program
Leo D. Harman, Jr.
Dr. Julia M. Hawkes
Ward H. Haylett Prize
Edward & Mary Heilman
Dick and Debbie Held
Edward H. Hemingway
Capt. Charles L. Herman
Richard & Grace French Herman
B. Keith & Norma F. Heuermann Foundation
David & Corinne Higbee
Reed & Eunice Higby
Duane H. Hillmer
John Hodgson
Wallace & Janet Heilman Hood
Donald M. Hosford
Eleanora F. Houser
Andrew & Lottie Lee Houston
Mary C. Houston
Mary Ellen Ingles-Farries
Ardis Butler James
Mrs. D. Willis James
Robert & Ardis James Foundation
Mary E. Jeffery
James E. Jones
Jones-Hilmer Theatre
Ellen Marek Kalal
Hertha I. Kayser
Jody Kerssenbrock
Benjamin & Cora Kemp
Frank B. Kennicott
Alva & Grace Barragar Kinney
Henry & Mary Louise Kleinkauf
Dr. Eugene A. Klingler
John & Beth Klosterman
Herbert & Mary Knapp
Karl & Mary Tidball Koch
Benjamin & Choon Sook Kremanak
Harold W. Kruse
Dr. Joseph Kuncl, Jr.
Mildred Oberg Kuncl
J. Leighton & Joyce Kunkel
Winthrop B. Lane
Dr. George R. LaRue
Stanley H. Lawton
Fred W. Leavitt
Lawrence H. Lee Library Fund
Literary Fund of 1896
Carl E. Lockman
Fred & Mary Elizabeth Rodgers Loomis
Harvey Mahloch
John & Anne MacDonald
Robert C. Makosky Prize
Alfred S. Martin
Arthur & Elizabeth Welty Mayer
Corlies Maynard
John & Clarice Droullard McDermand
Charles & Alys McMunn
Beth Anna Mekota
Mebus
John E. Mekota, Jr.
Elloise B. Messacar
Frederick E. Meyer
Henry Meyer
Clarence R. & Mary A. Miles
Mary Mortensen Mougey
Doane Music Program Endowment
Wilbert & Phyllis Johnson Myers
Nebraska Quarter Centennial
George L. Newton
Margaret Stines Nielsen
Louise Niemann
Ralph & Harriet Noyce
J. Chris & Dorothy Gorder Nyrop
Glen M. & Janet Olson
Ruth & Walt Olsen Family
Walt Olsen Memorial Endowment for the Exploration of Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics
Gwen Feebee Oltmanns
Paul R. & Barbara Oppenheim
M. David Osterhout Arboretum
J. Edward Pallett
Al Papik Doane Athletic Club
Mrs. D. K. Pearsons Professorship
Kitty M. Perkins Foundation
David Brainerd Perry Professorship
Mary Stone Perry Library Fund
Petersen Manufacturing Co.
Martha Sprague Pierce
Herman & Rhoda Platt
Howard & Louise Kinney Platt
Robert L. Polk Lectureship in Race & Social Justice
Jennie E. Pool
Anne Porter
Vincent J. Prucha
Richard & Lois Duffy Quimby
Reinold & Lillian Rall
John C. Rapp
Lloyd & Trudy Reeves
Howard & Patricia Platt Richoux
Robert & Myra Bevins Rivett
Emily F. Rorer
Francis & Dorothy Blatter Ross
James & Miriam Dewey Ross
Kenneth R. Rossman DKP Lectureship
Kenneth R. Rossman Library
Endowment in History
Kenneth R. Rossman Prize in History
Stuart S. Rough
E. E. Sanborn Prize
S. A. Sanderson Athletic Prize
Josephine Sanford Professorship
Lillian M. Boswell Schauffler Professorship
Addison & Margaret Thompson Sheldon Professorship
Frank J. & Shirley W. Sibert
Lester & Ruth Herron Skolil
Arch & Neldea Shoup Slate
Charles C. Smith
A. Elula Smith Smrha
Charles C. Snow
Ruth Mary Stevens Prize
Mary Gregory Stowell
Marjorie & Don Tarr
Frank & Marion Olsen Taylor
Joseph E. Taylor Library History Fund
John & Rene Burton Teague
Clayton & Janet Tidball
William & Verna Trepka
Trustee-Faculty Enrichment Professorship
Ralph W. Tyler Lectureship
Undergraduate Research Fund
Van Loan Family
Richard Vercruysse Endowment for the Support of the Doane
Agribusiness Program
Edison & Ida Padour Walker
Elizabeth Walker
Alice E. Wallace
Gladys & Vera Warner
Eric Weber Memorial Promising Educator
Conrad C. Wells
Wilson A. Wells
Dr. Lloyd E. & Florence Fredrick West
David Whitcomb Professorship
Edward Whitin Library Fund
Gustave F. Wildhaber
John O. Wiley Research Fund
T.F.A. Williams
Josephine Darrow Wolcott
Wolph Memorial
Worchester Professorship
Dr. John & June Yost
Otis Young Ethics & Religion Lectureship
Scholarship Funds
Scholarships for qualified students are available through funds in memory of, or donated by, the following:
Donated Scholarships
Ethel S. Abbot Foundation
Alpha Omega Fraternity
Anheuser-Busch of NE (Double Eagle Beverage)
BANK OF THE WEST
Blue Cross Blue Shield of NE
BRAN
Brent Bargen Memorial
William and Esther Bohi
Joe & Nancy Chapman Music
Chi Delta Sorority
Cooper Foundation
Council of Independent Colleges Challenge Grant
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation Possibilities Project
Students of Color Cooper Foundation
Dr. CC and Mabel L Criss Foundation
Dennis Daily
James Denney & Memorial
Dolly Brt Denney
Doane Family Association
EducationQuest Foundation
Terry A. Egger Memorial
Virgil Eihusen
Farm Credit Services of America
Ernest Fridrich
Gamma Phi Iota
Lynn “Red” Grovert Basketball
Dr. George & Susan Nemer Haddix
Cole Hamm Memorial
Ethel Hansen Art
Hawks Foundation
Phil Heckman
Mary-Ellen Inglis
Jim Johnson Textbook
Kaufman-Cummings Foundation
Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing-USA
Peter Kiewit Legacy
Doroty Knouse Koepke Memorial
Michael W. Krantz Trust
Lanham-Hawlick
Lincoln Industries Art
Live Doane
Patty Loring
Mastera Family
Charlotte & James M.D. McGarth
Cindy Meyer Volleyball
NE Golf Association
Nebraska Independent College Foundation
Never Too Late
NexTus
Mastera Family
Omaha Community Foundation
Omega Phi Theta
Robert Palensky
Kitty M. Perkins Foundation
Pinnacle Bank
Donald Purvis Pre-Med
Quivey Bay State Foundation
Jane Renner-Hood
Edgar & Francis Reynolds Foundation
Edward and Lida Robinson Trust
Songster & Cahill Family
SW Nebraska
Joan Tamkovik Veteran
Tau Sigma Zeta
Dr. Betsy Tonniges Early Childhood Education
UPS Educational
Vasek Travel Scholarship
Waters Family Scholarship
Rob Williams Memorial
Zenon C.R. Hansen Fellowship
Endowed Scholarships
Oliver & Blanche Adams
Adams-Dry
Frank & Lizzie Addleman Memorial
Addleman
Alpha Omega
Alpha Phi Epsilon
Anna Fay Albin Memorial
Albion Congregational Church
Lt. David F. Albrecht Memorial
Bertise & Hannah Aldrich Memorial
Ruth Marie Amen
Frank B. Anderson Memorial
Leora Carlson Anderson
Walter E. Anderson & Prudence Anderson Clem
Anderson-Fust
Gladys N. Arnold
Thomas J. & Lucille Beals Aron
Alice Bromwell Balzer
Emma C. & Louise W. Barstow
Erika R. Barton
Richard & Dena Gosch Bartlett Athletic
James G. Bastian
John H. Bath, Jr.
John & Florence Foss Bauer
Fred & Eleanor Murphey Bauer
William J. Bayer Memorial
Cherie Thomsen Bayley
Ralph W. Becker
Nancy Beggs
Fred Beile Excellence in Endeavor
Joanne Cunningham Bell Memorial
Vernon & Joanne C. Bell Memorial
Vernon Bell Memorial
Philo Sherman Bennett
Roger I. Blatter Memorial
William & Esther Bohi Excellence in Education
Amy Howlett Borland
L.Lane Boutwell Memorial
Helen Bromwell
Dorothy Catlin Brown
Dr. Fred D. Brown History
Elise M. Buchman
C. Eugene Buell Memorial
Katherine M. Buell Memorial Biology & Music
B.F. & Maudlee Butler Music
Fay Johnson Butler Memorial
Sen. Hugh C. Butler
Dr. & Mrs. M. R. Byrnes
R. M. Campbell
Rev. Randolph Campbell
Capital Alumni Chapter
Arnold, Elsie, and Donald Chab
Carol Olof Carlson Memorial
Marjorie A. Cass
Conan J. & Patricia Roop Castle
Mary L. Chapin
Chi Delta Founding Mother’s
Robert E. & Wintha M. Christiansen
Marianne Clarke Writing Excellence Award
Clarke Memorial
Class of 1952
Class of 1958
Class of 1964
Class of 1974
William H. Collett
Robert Conner & Conner/Wettergren Human & Civil Rights
Craig J. & & Juli L. Coppersmith
James & Donna Cotsana
Agnes Freiberg Cox Memorial
Roy & Pearl Cram Memorial
Crete News Athletic
Czech Scholarship
Michael V. Danaher Memorial
B. Wayne & Harriet Dawson
Rev. Frank Warren Dean
Delta Kappa Pi
Robert S. Dickinson
Miles C. Doan
Doane Family Association
Charles Watson Doane III
Joseph A. Doane Memorial
Winifred J. Doane Memorial
Lowell E. Dodd Memorial
Dennis P. & Juanita K. Dondlinger
Evelyn & Kristie Dorr
Ron & Jean Douglas Athletic
G. Bryant and Alberta Drake
Alberta Dredla & Bernice Dredla Sanderson
Ida Mae Whisinand DuBois
Ray & Julena Steinheider Duncombe
Ralph E. & Ida Dutch
Rev. Sandra Vasel Edwards Memorial
Brian English Memorial
Max Farver Endowment
Donald L. Fix
Allen & Ruth Osterhout Franta Memorial
Cora Lyons Free
Fremont Congregational Church
Ida M. Fuhrer Memorial
Joseph A. Galluccio
Gamma Phi Iota Impact
Franklin R. Gardner Memorial
Richard C. Gibson Athletic
Glass/Fitzgibbon Family
Burket E. Graf
Les Grant-Ron Hatchett Memorial
James M. Gray
Joe E. Green
Ben Grimes Memorial Baseball
John Fuller Hall
Charles Frederick Harrison
Marjorie Campbell Hartigan
Charles B. Hastings
Lumir C. Havlicek Concert Band
Dr. Garfield & Irma Lanham Hawlick
William Randolph Hearst
Philip R. Heckman
Dick and Debbie Held
Elizabeth Anne Held
Mary L. Heuerman
G. Gordon Heyhoe
Blanche L. Hill
Amiel & Rose Hledik
Robert & Eleanora Trnik Houser
E. Belle Ingles Memorial
Desley L. Isernhagen
Jackman/Bence
Jane L. Johnson
Dr. Jim Johnson Prize Fund
Thomas B. & Fay Johnson Memorial
A. Stoddard Jones
Steve & Rosemary Cook Jones
Jones-Hilmer Theatre
Gerald R. & Vivian M. Kahle
Karas Family Science
Dick Katzmann
Wilbert E. Keder/Class of 1950
Ann L. Kelsall
George V. Kersenbrock
Paul D. Kersenbrock
Jody Kerssenbrock
Kiewit Foundation Scholarship
Angie Klasek Memorial
Carolyn Kollmeier
Paul & Esther Farley Korff
Kozisek-Denker Family
Michael Krantz
Alan Sharon Krauter Seagren
Kuhns Family
Patti Kahler Kundinger
Kunkel Family
Paul A. Kunzman Memorial Golf
Thomas J. Kuzelka Memorial
Thusnelda Welsch Kuzelka Memorial
LeRoy T. & Irma Nuquist Laase Memorial
Wayne & Evelyn Spadt Lambertz
Walter & Marie Lauritsen
John E. Layton Music
Sadie M. Libby
Lietsch-Ziegenbein Memorial
James C. Lindberg
Arlen Lohmeyer Memorial
Raymond Lohmeyer Memorial
Mrs. Edward E. Lorensen
Edna Cobb Lothrop
Diane Eastburn Ludlam
Wilfred G. Maas
Ronald C. MacDonald
William E. & Patricia A. Mazanec Mahar
Laurence P. Mains
Ada Corbitt Marcellus
Marek-Kalal
Virginia Peters Marsh
Melvin W. Mawhinney
Charlene P. McArdle
James & Mary Ann McClung
Mechanical Maintenance
Mekota Family
Mekota-Buell Music & Science
Florence & A. Max Meyer Memorial
Fred & Eleanor Smatlan Meyer
Dana Miller Leader Impact
Louise Miller
Mary Herndon Miller
Marie Fritscher Mitchem
Shiro & Kiyoko Kikuchi Mori
Marilyn Morrison Memorial
Helen N. Morrow
Morten L. & Besse Potter Mortensen
Robert D. Muckel Tri Beta Prize
Dr. William E. & Dorothy J. Murphy
Raymond “Ray” Clay Munkres
W. Stewart Nelson Sigma Phi Theta
New England
Nextus
Norfolk First Congregational Church
Bessie E. Norton
Clarence & Marjorie Hostetter Noyce
Loyd & Shirley Oleson Math
Omega Psi Theta
Elva Kokjer Osterhout
Justus & Barbara Dotts Paul
Perry Family
David Brainerd Perry
Gary & Allison Petersen Scholarship in memory of Alma Grosshans Daniel
Phi Sigma Tau/Alyce H. Collett
Genevieve Sack Phillips
Howard J. & Louise Platt Memorial
Platt Alumni Challenge
Frank H. Porter
P.D. & Evelyn Hawlick Pyle
Neva L. Rall Memorial Art
Liz Ridge Rawlings Elementary Education
Portia Reed & Jennifer Reed Garbin Soccer
Robert E. Reed
Seymour A. Reed
Sheila A. Reiter Writing Award
Frank and Marion Taylor Rocky Mountain Alumni Chapter
Rollin & M. Colleen Rohwer
Kenneth R. Rossman (DKP) History
J. S. & Frances Bates Rough
Charles & Mara Stewart Royce
Margaret Zeilinger Sabata Memorial
John B. & Doris Ziegler Salter Educational Endowment
Vishnu & H. Eileen Means Saran
Jeanette I. Sasek Memorial
Frank & Lillian Schmitz
Lewis & Florence Scott
Mark T. & Margaret Lowe Seacrest
Joseph W. Sedlacek
Nellie V. Sexton
Bruce & Margaret Sheffield
Dr. David H. Smith Research Award
Tillie A. Soker Memorial
Dr. Miles Spalding
Mary E. Stephens
Louise Shepherd Storer
Kerry Strayer Memorial
Harold “Jiggs” & DeLoris Summers
Florence Benton Swanson
William & Ella Swartz Scientific
Tabor College Alumni
Arthur & Bessie Craven Tarr Family
Tidball Family
Dr. Betsy Tonniges Early Childhood Education
Dr. Thomas & Jane Tonniges Pre-Med
Track & Field Enhancement
Marion Cass Tripp
Tritt Music
Gladys E. Trnik Memorial Music
Leo J. Trnik Memorial Music
Trobough Educational
Ralph W. Tyler
U.S.S. Doane
James H. Van Hoy
Robert Van Pelt Memorial
John & Bess Kilbourn Vance Memorial
Jerry Vanice
Emmet & Elsie Vitek Memorial Music
Loyd & Grace Andrews Wallace
Helen Bayer Wampler
Alice Ware
Dr. George & Geraldine Barber Warner
Walter S. Waas
Weeping Water Academy & Church
Ronald B. Welch
Colonel William & Florence Noyce Wertz Memorial
Wayne H. Weyers
Erman & Jean Wheatcraft
Wallace & Almira Wheeler
David Whitcomb
R. A. & Lela Willeford
Harold E. Willey Memorial
Gail Ellen Williams
Dr. Levi & Hazel Wilson
Mildred P. & Neal Winn
Robert and Patricia Wissel
Donald & Glennys Tyser Ziegler
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