b'R E C E N T A L U M N I E V E N T S# Given to Date Percent Class Year # in Class Given2020 Class Giving CompetitionWe held our80251352.00% Authors In Residence04742432.43%Alumni Giving Day,78268 30.77%#1dayforGDS, on March90601423.33%4th to help kick off our7932721.88% GDS Alumnus, Bryan Jones 94, visited GDS as our 7th annual class givinglower schools Author in Residence. Bryan is the owner competition during97651421.54% of Mascot Adventures and the author of many of the the month of March.10861820.93% stories! He brought along illustrator, Hootie Bowman, #1dayforGDS was once86561119.64% to share some fun drawings with the kids! Check out the again, a huge success! 92521019.23% books at http://mascotadventures.com/ We received over 25005851618.82%alumni gifts in the 2491591118.64%hour giving period7512216.67%alone! However, due to the onset of COVID-198955916.36%in mid-March, we11861416.28%determined that it was9452815.38%not an appropriate time01751114.67%to carry out our Class98711014.08%Giving Competition08861213.95%this year. Though we suspended the Class16801113.75%Giving Competition,9659813.56%we would like to00741013.51%recognize the Class of9361813.11%80 who had 52% of8454712.96%their class having made8547612.77%a gift by the end of #1dayforGDS. We know8140512.50%that COVID-19 has0272912.50%brought on financial03831012.05%stress for many. We12921111.96% GDS Alumna, Carolyn Kates Brown 80 visited GDS are cognizant of these7717211.76% as an Author in Residence. She spent time with English stressed and we want8753611.32% classes throughout the divisions. Dr. Brown is a writer, to thank everyoneeditor, and scholar. She has authored biographies of who has been able to0669710.14%support GDS this year. 834149.76% Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker, and Kate Freeman 763139.68% Clark. Students learned a great deal and had the098578.24% opportunity to share some of their own research and EDITORS NOTE:996158.20% writing with her. As the magazine went078678.14%to print, Alumni annual fund donors totaled1410088.00%371.823026.67%956546.15%885735.26%199133.30%1876101.32%1785101.18%1388101.14%1588101.14%TOTAL2842362* 12.74% *As of March 31, 2019GDS Magazine | 65'