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Sel
@selmelendez

How tf did I manage to be up by 
5:30, go to class from 8-8:30, 
take 6 AP courses, play 3 sports 
& work in high school but now 
I can’t even make it to my 10 
AM???

claire marie
@clairemar_griff

@ umich telefund, please 
call in 30 years when I have 
money to give and I will 
gladly donate then.

KT
@Kaytlynn_12

Today in Ann Arbor has been 
cold, cloudy, snowy, sunny & 
windy. And I’m over it. 

University of Michigan
@UMich

U-M will join the National Civil 
Rights Museum of Memphis and 
other institutions across the world in 
remembering the 50th anniversary 
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 
assassination with three concerts 
that honor his legacy and life.

Zac Gelfand
@gac_zelfand

kid in front of me in buddhism 
class that’s working on beats 
on logic just received a nude via 
imessage

bg
@briitney18

is it bad that i follow every 
organization that @UMich 
has... literally obsessed with 
the school

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KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily

What is your most prized 

possession?

“My fish, my beta 
fish because I have 
dropped a lot of 
money on this fish 
and he is basically 
my therapy pet at 
this point.”

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Vice President of Development Jerry 
May announces year-end retirement

University of Michigan Vice 

President 
for 
Development 

Jerry 
May 
announced 
his 

plans to retire at the end of 
the year after nearly three 
decades 
of 
expanding 
the 

school’s fundraising efforts to 
record heights.

May has been affiliated 

with the University since his 
time as a graduate student in 
the higher education program, 
during which he then took 
on a job in the Development 
Office. After spending 13 years 

in the position, he left to lead 
the 
Ohio 
State 
University 

fundraising team and raised a 
$1.23 billion campaign — the 
most successful in the school’s 
history. In 2003, May returned 
to the University as the vice 
president 
for 
development 

and since has undertaken a 
variety of projects. One of 
such projects is the Victors 
for 
Michigan 
fundraising 

campaign, launched in 2011, 
which 
raises 
money 
for 

increasing “student support, 
engaged learning and bold 
ideas.”

The seven-and-a-half-year 

campaign is now its final 

stretch, and though the final 
amount has not yet been 
determined, May’s office is 
already $330 million past its 
$4 billion goal. Campaign 
Director 
Todd 
Baily 
has 

known May for 30 years, and 
described him as a dedicated 
individual who is held in high 
esteem by his coworkers.

“It’s been a great pleasure 

working 
with 
him,” 
Baily 

said. “I don’t think anybody 
could find a more committed, 
passionate, 
development 

professional, 
either 
here 

at Michigan or across the 
country. Jerry is very well 
respected 
nationally 
by 

peer institutions for his 
fundraising 
leadership. 

He 
is 
extremely 

knowledgeable about the 
profession and an expert 
on 
the 
University 
of 

Michigan.”

However, 
before 
he 

reaches retirement, May 
explained he still plans 
to continue working and 
travel to many major cities 
over the next two month.

“I’m 
going 
to 
keep 

raising 
money 
for 
the 

University,” May said. “I’m 
going to try to support all 
the 
good 
development 

professionals we have at 
the University, work with 
the wonderful volunteers 
who help us raise the 
money 
and 
continue 

working as far past the 
campaign goal as we can. 
I got nine more months to 
do that.”

May also reflected on 

his time at the University, 
and said he continued to 
work here because of the 
quality of the University, 
the 
passion 
of 
those 

with whom he worked and 
the exciting challenges of 
fundraising.

“The reason I stayed is 

because I love the University 
of Michigan; you can’t work 
for a better place with a 
better product, that’s the first 
thing,” May said. “Secondly, 
the donors and volunteers — 
there stand no equals – they’re 
among 
the 
most 
talented, 

skilled people I’ve ever worked 
with … I love the challenge of 
mounting campaigns, that’s 
probably 
my 
specialty 
… 

Michigan continues to have 
the appetite to achieve in its 
fundraising.”

Some 
of 
May’s 
greatest 

moments at the University 
included working with big 
donors such as Bert Askwith, 
Stephen Ross, and Richard 
and Susan Rogel — just last 
week, the latter donated$150 
million to the University for 
cancer research.

“The kind of thing that gets 

me — what you call the great 
moments that give me the most 
satisfaction — is working with 
someone like Bert Askwith, 
and all the things that give 
him joy and help him support 
the University,” May said. “For 
me, it’s working with a donor 
and matching them up to 
things that give them passion, 
make them smile and make 
them feel good and that makes 
me feel good.”

Pam 
Stout, 
the 
senior 

director 
of 
executive 

communications, 
also 

touched on this enthusiasm 
while thinking back on her 
experiences 
working 
with 

May. Stout has been working 
closely with May over the 
past year and described his 

One of May’s biggest accomplishments was the Victors for Michigan campaign

AMARA SHAIKH
Daily Staff Reporter

See VP, Page 3A

