Double measure
Stanley Foster (left) & Deborah McFarland (right)
An anonymous donor is honoring two longtime faculty members in the Hubert Department of Global Health with separate gifts.
A $25,000 matching gift established the Deborah A. McFarland Global Field Experience Fund in recognition of McFarland's lifelong commitment to global health education. The gift resulted from a challenge made last September, when the donor pledged a matching gift of $10,000 to create the fund. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni quickly met the goal. The donor then pledged to match the amount of gifts raised by the end of December. That led to matching more than $25,000 in gifts and provided a total of more than $50,000 to endow the McFarland Fund.
An associate professor and health economist, McFarland directs the Global Field Experience program, which enables 70 students to conduct research around the world each year.
The donor behind the McFarland Fund also is honoring another colleague, global health professor Stanley Foster 82MPH, with a gift to launch the Stanley O. Foster: Pathways in Global Health lecture fund.
A popular teacher at Rollins, Foster is a former CDC epidemiologist who played a historic role in eradicating smallpox from the world in 1980. In 1994, Foster left the CDC to join Rollins, where he has shared three decades of field experiences with his "learners"—his preferred name for students.
