This week, Heather Hunte reports that Albert J. Mrozik, Jr. ’75CC has made a bequest valued at more than $400,000 to establish a scholarship in memory of his uncle, William J. Drake ’29CC.
Prior to documenting this intention, Mrozik, a prosecutor in Newark, N.J., had been making small annual fund gifts since graduating — the largest was $75. He is a member of his 40th reunion planning committee and, following one phone meeting with Jackie Morton about planned giving as it relates to the overall goal for the class of 1975, he reached out to make a bequest of his own. Hunte, then assistant director for class giving at the College, provided the guidance and documents needed to bring this to fruition.
“This is a classic story of a planned gift prospect,” said Hunte, who this week started at Columbia Law School as associate director of major gifts. “I was surprised by Albert’s e-mail following the call, mostly because he had given less than $500 to Columbia to date. But he was very motivated by his reunion, and Jackie was instrumental in laying out the options available.”
