“I can still remember we talked about it a lot,” Jerre Stead, 80, told a crowd of hundreds Thursday on the University of Iowa campus, where in earned his bachelor’s degree in 1965. “Mary Joy said, ‘Someday, if we ever are fortunate enough, having had multiple children born here, we want to give something back for that. We want to make a difference at the university’.”
The University of Iowa this week officially exited the “silent“ portion of a new fundraising campaign, aiming to generate more than $3 billion, by announcing that it already is halfway to that goal which, if achieved, would top its last capital campaign record by more than $1 billion.