Honor the Memory
Maintain the Legacy
The English department at the University of Pittsburgh has been growing. Recently we have added an Honors Major, a Contemporary Writers Series of Readings, and a non-fiction prose track in the Writing Program. We want to continue to improve and grow but we need your help. Specifically, we are asking you to contribute to the department's extant endowment funds or to consider creating new endowed fellowships or scholarships.
Currently the English department has 12 endowments all of which honor the memory and maintain the legacy of departed alumni, colleagues or friends.
Nancy C. Anderson Memorial Fund
Established by her parents in 1990, this fund honors Nancy Anderson who worked as a department adviser and later as Assistant to the Dean of FAS. The fund supports a graduate Teaching Assistant or Teaching Fellow for tuition, transportation, computer, and health fees for two terms.
Block Endowment
Supports a distinguished visiting writer.
Dorothy D. Burkhart and Alumni Scholarship Fund
Established in 1976 from the estate of Dorothy Burkhardt and with additional gifts from alumni, this fund is awarded to a junior English major for use in the senior year.
Charles Crow Memorial Fund
Initially a small fund to support the Reading Room in honor of Charles Crow, a Shakespeare specialist who taught from 1931 until his retirement in 1973, the fund reached endowment proportions as of February 1997. Administered by Ann Ronchetti, the department bibliographer, this funds books, equipment, and audio-visual materials for the Crow Room.
Carol Kay Memorial Fund
This fund honors Carol Kay, a specialist in the eighteenth century who taught from 1989 until her death in 1998, and supports a prize for the best essay written on English literature from 1500 to 1900.
Fred Koloc Fund
Established in 2000 in honor of Fred Koloc, the income provides funds for a student achievement award in the form of a gift certificate for the University of Pittsburgh Book Center. Students are chosen from freshmen who have completed the Basic Reading and Writing Course and who have made exceptional progress.
Allison McDowell Memorial Fund
"Al" McDowell's colleagues in TV, radio and print journalism in Pittsburgh set up this fund in 1995 in honor of their co-worker, an English and Journalism major (BA 1952). It supports a partial annual scholarship for an outstanding junior in the nonfiction writing program.
J. K. & Gertrude Miller
An annual prize to the best undergraduate essays on medieval or twentieth-century British literature, Commonwealth or Global literature in English, world literature in English translation, or literary and cultural theory.
J. F. Reingardt Endowment/Writing Workshop
Check with Geeta Kothari
James Snead Memorial Fund
Established in 1991 by his family, this fund honors James Snead, a faculty member from 1987 until his death in 1989, and fosters undergraduate work in the four areas of concern to him. A $500 prize is awarded for the best undergraduate essay in African-American Literature, American Literature, German Literature, or African-American Film.
Myron Taube Scholarship in Fiction Writing
Established by Marion Taube in honor of her husband's retirement in 1995, this fund honors Myron "Mike" Taube who taught creative writing for 30 years. A $500 prize is awarded to an undergraduate junior or senior for excellence in creative writing.
Barbara Nietzsche Tobias Memorial Fund
Established by her husband and English department professor, Richard Tobias, in 1996, this fund honors Barbara Nietzsche Tobias (Library and Information Sciences 1967) who worked in the University Archives. This fund supports a dissertation fellowship in the English department.
