Annual Report of Giving Stories

03/17/2025

A Love for Liberal Arts: Mark Lewis ’77

A voracious appetite for reading began at an early age for Mark Lewis ’77. That love for learning guided Lewis to F&M and continues to inspire him to give back to the College. A donor since 1987, Lewis is a recent inductee into the John Marshall...

03/11/2025

Supporting Future Diplomats

“I look back and appreciate my time as a student-athlete at F&M, and I want to support that for future F&M students,” Jennifer Dubow ’04 says. “Through my work, I've seen how athletic departments are never fully funded, even though many from...

02/05/2025

Helping to Make F&M’s Caring Community Available to Others

Karis Mardirossian ’24 is the youngest child of her parents, Marianne and Aris. She found exactly what she was looking for in a college, and what she needed, at F&M. Her parents were so pleased with Karis’ experience, they wanted to help other...

01/06/2025

Wrestling Scholarships Create Opportunity for F&M’s Historic Program

Franklin & Marshall Wrestling is one of the oldest and most successful sports at the College, and to this day wrestling is the College’s only NCAA Division I program. In January 2024, F&M celebrated the 100th anniversary of wrestling as an intercollegiate...

‘Reckoning with Lancaster’ Grant Explores County’s Complex History

Franklin & Marshall College is one of just 10 liberal arts colleges to be named a new recipient of a Humanities for All Times grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With a $1.4 million grant from the foundation, a new F&M project — "Reckoning...

Providing Opportunities in Perpetuity

In honor of his mentor and colleague, John E. Fischer ’77 and his wife Dotti established the Robert E. Donohoe ’73 Endowed Scholarship Fund, and later the Fischer Family Endowed Scholarship, both supporting financial aid in perpetuity.