At the 2020 Throwback Basketball Game, we kicked off our Phase II fundraising efforts for the McBride Legacy Scholarship Fund with Joe Nettemeyer offering to match all gifts made to the scholarship campaign up to $250,000. We embarked on this fundraising effort so we could increase the Legacy Scholarship awards from $800 to $1,100. We are happy to report that at this year’s Throwback Game, we announced that we had surpassed our $500,000 goal.
Once again, we extend our gratitude to Joe Nettemeyer for his generous match opportunity to continue to spark alumni interest in carrying forward a Marianist education for today’s Chaminade students who are McBride legacies. These young men are the bright minds of the next generation who will lead and sacrifice to build a better future.
Alumni Participation
Thanks to the support of more than 538 Micks, of which 144 had donated to Phase I and 394 were new donors for Phase II, we finished Phase II by raising $507,726.
Participation has been strong across all the classes.
The top classes are:
1967- 49 donors
1970 - 44 donors
1968 - 37 donors
1969 - 36 donors
1963 - 35 donors
1964 - 33 donors
1962 & 1965 29 donors each
1966 - 21 donors
1961 &1971 20 donors each
In total since 2010 when we embarked on our Program, we have raised nearly $1.6M and 650 Micks have made donations to the Legacy Scholarship Fund.
The McBride Family of Scholarships
This year the McBride Family of Scholarships was created to include the Legacy Scholarship Fund as well as four new scholarships created by Joe and Jane Nettemeyer with $200,000 in gifts. This brings the total value of the McBride Family of Scholarships to $1.8M toward our $2M goal that we committed to Father Ralph Siefert to secure the naming right of McBride Alumni Hall.
Legacy Scholarship Highlights
- 63 Chaminade students are receiving the McBride Legacy Scholarship for the 2021-2022 school year.
- This year’s scholarship award amount is $1,000 per student. Next year each of our Legacy Scholars will receive a $1,200 scholarship. Prior to this year, the award amount had been at $800 for six years.
- This year’s seniors have received $5,850 from the McBride Legacy Scholarship if they attended Chaminade all seven years.
- Since 2010, 110 families have benefited from the McBride Legacy Scholarship totaling 158 students that have received an annual McBride Legacy Scholarship.
- In total since 2010, we have awarded 586 scholarship installments for a total of $450,000.
- The relatives of 130 McBride alumni have received the scholarship.
We send our heartfelt thanks and best wishes.
McBride Legacy Scholarship Committee