EDUCATION: Affectionately …

“Affectionately . . .”

For four generations, the Rockefellers have admired Wellesley College for women. No exception is Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, wife of New York’s Governor. Though not a Wellesley alumna (she graduated from Virginia’s Foxcroft School, attended the Sorbonne for a year), Mrs. Rockefeller is a loyal and energetic Wellesley trustee. Two months ago, she fired off a letter to her husband’s office, reporting that Wellesley’s campaign to raise $15 million for faculty salaries was almost three years old and less than one-third to the goal. Last week she proudly revealed the tardy but profitable reply:

“Dear Tod: Thank you for your letter of March ninth concerning the Wellesley fund-raising drive. I would be delighted to contribute towards this campaign, and accordingly, this note is a pledge of securities having the market value of approximately $150,000, this amount to be paid at my convenience prior to January, 1962.

Affectionately, Nelson”

The biggest single pledge in Wellesley’s campaign so far,* Nelson’s husbandly gesture swelled the take to $5,082,851. Even at that, Nelson was less generous to Wellesley than his grandfather, John D. Elected an honorary member of the class of 1901, John D. was so pleased with being a Wellesley “girl” himself that he shelled out $1,000,000.

# Second biggest: $100,000 each from the Walter S. Carpenter family of Wilmington and the Henry Luce Foundation.