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Board Creates John Toll Chair
With $2 million in gifts and pledges raised in six weeks, the Board of Visitors and Governors has endowed a new chair in honor of Washington College President John Toll. The first Toll Chair appointee is expected to be named this summer.
College Trustee Margaret Bennett brought the idea before the Board in February, asking that the membership consider raising $1 million for the chair, to be matched by the Hodson Challenge. The Hodson Trust has promised up to $10 million to match endowment gifts that support faculty chairs and professorships.
With the support of Vice Chairman Jay Griswold, commented Bennett, "the whole board fell in. John Toll is a splendid president, and with the impetus of the Hodson Challenge it seemed a marriage made in heaven."
The Toll Chair is the third of five endowed chairs to be created during the Campaign for Washington's College. The Chair may be awarded to an outstanding faculty member in any discipline who, according to the Board resolution, "represents in exemplary fashion the College's goals of superb teaching and advising, fine research, and excellent service, and who displays a strongly positive attitude and a deep commitment to Washington College and its students."
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