A&S alumni will lead U.Va.’s next capital campaign

Three College alumni have accepted top posts in the University’s capital campaign.

Gordon F. Rainey Jr. (College ’62, Law ’67) has been selected to lead the $3 billion fundraising campaign and serves as chair of the Campaign Executive Committee. Rainey has a long record of service to U.Va. In June, he completed a two-year term as University rector. He will remain a member of the Board of Visitors until his second term expires in 2008. Rainey is a former president of the U.Va. Alumni Association and currently serves as a trustee of the Law School Foundation.

Rainey is assisted by two vice chairmen: John L. Nau III (History ’68) of Houston and Everette L. Doffermyre (Economics ’70, Law ’73) of Atlanta. Nau leads the campaign’s Council of Chairs, a group of alumni who  represent the University’s supporting foundations. He is president of the College Foundation and has held many other leadership roles at U.Va. Doffermyre, also a member of the College Foundation Board of Trustees and long-time U.Va. leader, chairs the campaign’s National Committee on University Resources. This group of fundraising volunteers leads the regional activities of the capital campaign.

Intended to meet University-wide priorities as well as those of individual schools and departments, the campaign encompasses funding goals for all areas of the institution. It will seek gifts for such purposes as scholarships and fellowships for students; endowed positions for faculty; support for academic, student-life and healthcare programs; and new and renovated buildings for teaching, research, athletics, the arts and patient care. The University began counting gifts for the campaign in January 2004 and has scheduled the public launch for September 2006.

For more campaign information, go to Virginia.edu/supportuva