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Giving Stories

Gregg and Stacy Irwin

“We give to St. John’s because they also support our children, even more than we do on a daily basis. And they support not only our children, but others as well.”

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Miyoko Schinner (A79)

“When I hear about her experiences there, I am reminded of the powerful impact St. John’s can have on the life a young person.”

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Adelheid “Heidi” Buehler Casasco

“Now, at age 90, Heidi remains passionately committed to liberal arts education, comparing it to ‘a beautiful tapestry in which the various threads of knowledge are interwoven.’”

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Jack Armstrong (SF83)

“The main reason why I give to St. John’s College is what I like to think of as the ‘contract between generations’...”

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Lisa Boughter Saporta

Lisa Boughter Saporta chose to create an endowment fund to honor her late husband, Larry Saporta (A91), who was a professor of art history at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania.

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Join the Conversation: Share Your Giving Story

Aristotle writes in the Nichomachean Ethics, Book IV, regarding giving:

“Now virtuous actions are noble and done for the sake of the noble. Therefore the liberal person, like other virtuous people, will give for the sake of the noble, and rightly; for he will give to the right people, the right amounts, and at the right time, with all the other qualifications that accompany right giving; and that too with pleasure or without pain...”

We know that you are passionate about St. John’s College, its history and its future. How do you articulate why that passion prompts you to give?