Personal Giving Stories
Kirshbaums establish fund to benefit English department
As English majors at the U-M, Laurence (AB ’66) and Barbara (AB ’66, CERTT EDUC ’66) Kirshbaum, of New York City, learned to appreciate the beauty and power of the written word. Now they are extending the same opportunity to others.
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| Barbara and Laurence Kirshbaum with their new grandson, Benjamin Levy |
The Kirshbaums’ recent $500,000 gift to the
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
establishes the Laurence and Barbara Kirshbaum
Strategic Fund to benefit the Department
of English Languages and Literature
and the Master of Fine Arts Program. Since
it provides discretionary funding, the gift
can be used to meet the Department’s highest
priorities, including support of students,
faculty and programs.
“Barbara and I are very proud to contribute to the bedrock of the humanities—the written word,” says Laurence Kirshbaum. “Michigan is very fortunate to have such dynamic programs in the study and writing of prose that we are thrilled to be a part of them.”
Earlier in the campaign the couple made a commitment to the Visiting Writers Program
in the Department. They have made many previous
gifts to LSA and have also supported the
Office of Student Publications. Laurence Kirshbaum
is a former managing editor of The
Michigan Daily. He serves on the Tri-State
Leadership Committee and on the English
Language and Literature Advisory Committee.
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