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          Trustee and husband pledge $100,000 to Africana studies

          
            
              
                
                Published: July 19, 2006
              

              
                Author: Don Wycliff
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

AUniversityofNotre Dame Trusteeand her husband have pledged $100,000 toward the endowment of the Universitys new Department of Africana Studies.

Phyllis Stone, a 1980 Notre Dame graduate, and her husband, Jim, a 1981 alumnus, made the gift, the first of its size to the Africana studies department.

Richard Pierce, department chair and associate professor of history, said that the Stonespledgerepresents a great beginning of our effortto build the program and put it on a solid footing.

Phyllis Stone said she and her husband made their donation to show their commitment to the new department and their hope that others will follow their example. Speaking of Americansknowledge ofAfrica, she said,We are so far behind where we ought to be.

Mrs. Stone is executive director of worldwide marketing for Merck&Co. Inc. ofWhitehouse Station,N.J.She was elected to Notre Dames Board of Trustees in May 1995. Earlier she was a member of the advisory council of the Mendoza College of Business and helped to create the Black Alumni of Notre Dame within the Universitys Alumni Association.

Mr. Stone was a member of the 1977 Fighting Irish national championship football team and played professional football for four years. He currently is an executive sales representative for Merial Ltd. Animal Health, a company partly owned by Merck&Co.

Established a year ago, the Department of Africana Studies replaced the Universitys African and African-American Studies Program. It offers an interdisciplinary curriculum in which students study the African-American experience; the histories, literatures, political systems, arts, economies and religions of the African continent; and the African diaspora – the global dispersion of people of African descent.

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