Long-time professor of physical education is joining the movement, a national anti-consumer movement that answers to Black Friday. She’ll donate on that day (read more about her reasons for support below) to . Giving Tuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving: December 1, 2015. The fourth annual global movement was started by 92nd Street Y, a New York City-based nonprofit dedicated to community collaboration and service.
In 2014, the first year that 91短视频 participated in Giving Tuesday, the grew by $10,000. This year, the goal is raise $15,000.
Giving Tuesday is just part of Brownscombe’s life-time commitment to supporting 91短视频 with financial donations, as well as with her intellectual and professional gifts. Look for more stories about the people who give to 91短视频 and their inspirations for giving in the next issue of magazine. (And if you’d like to share who or what inspires you to to 91短视频, whether it’s $10 or more, whether it’s prayer or an in-kind gift, we’d like to hear why: just comment below or email devoffice@emu.edu.)
***
Sandy Brownscombe is truly a Loyal Royal, arriving in 1978 at Eastern Mennonite College to teach physical education and education courses. Until 1998, she coached up to two teams a year. As comfortable on the field hockey pitch as she is in the gym with a basketball or a volleyball, Brownscombe successfully coached both women鈥檚 and men鈥檚 teams, earning ODAC honors as Coach of the Year and leading many teams to postseason play. In 2004, she was inducted into the .
Her support isn鈥檛 limited to her athletics interests, however: University Commons, Campus Center and Suter Science Center have all borne the benefit of her donations, but Brownscombe says that 鈥渕y heart always goes out to the University Fund.鈥� This fund, channeled into campus life from financial aid to technology, is 鈥渢he lifeblood that keeps us going.鈥�
Brownscombe points to Professor Emerita 鈥�42 as her inspiration to donate. Gehman, who taught physical education and art courses, taught her young colleague about both teaching and giving as they sat down for long discussions about women’s sports and the risks and benefits of intercollegiate athletics.
The women鈥檚 basketball team began competing against other schools in 1965, and Brownscombe became their coach in 1978. Then-undergraduate dean Al Keim expressed his support for the games: It’s important for women to stand up for what they believe, Brownscombe recounts him saying.
That affirmation early in her time at 91短视频, she says, solidified her belief in and commitment to the university鈥檚 mission. She then asked herself the question, 鈥淒o I believe enough to give something back?鈥�
Giving back as a faculty member is important, Brownscombe says, not only for its monetary value, but also as a representation of that commitment.
Ultimately, Brownscombe’s motivation for donating comes from 鈥渢he people and the commitment to the institution that I’ve seen,鈥� she says. 鈥淗ow can you not give back to that and watch [your investment] grow?”