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SYLVIA HULMES MEMORIAL FUND TO BENEFIT PRESCOTT COLLEGE'S KINO BAY
CENTER
Prescott College is pleased to announce the establishment of the Sylvia
Hulmes Memorial Fund, a stock gift to Prescott College that will benefit
the Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies in Sonora, Mexico.
In memory of his wife, Sylvia, the mother of Prescott College Professor
Doug Hulmes, Ross Hulmes has donated a stock gift of more than $187,000 to
the college. The Hulmes family has requested the gift be used to improve
the learning facility at the college's Kino Bay Center and enhance environmental
education programs.
Sylvia Hulmes worked as a physical education teacher and Ross Hulmes as
a high school principal in Elgin, Ill. before retiring to Milaca, Minn. Sylvia
Hulmes died in mid-October.
"My parents were both educators and have been enthusiastic supporters
of Prescott College since I enrolled as a student," said Doug Hulmes,
a 1974 Prescott College graduate, who joined the environmental studies faculty
in 1978. "When my mother passed away, I was describing the beauty of
the Sea of Cortez and the college's field station in Kino Bay to a nurse
who was attending her. It seemed appropriate that when my father decided
to donate a memorial gift to the college that it should help fund our educational
efforts in Kino and environmental education initiatives."
(From left: Sylvia Hulmes, Doug Hulmes and Ross Hulmes)
The gift will fund the construction of a new field station building. The
field station will include about 1,200 square feet of interior space to house
a library, computer laboratory and classrooms. There will be additional outdoor
shaded patio and veranda areas that can be utilized for marine observation,
classes and other purposes.
"This gift came at a great time because it is something that is very
needed," said Ed Boyer, professor of environmental studies at Prescott
College and the co-director of the Kino Bay Center. "It's impossible
to overestimate the impact this gift will have; it will affect every class
and every visitor that ever goes there and be a central part of the Kino
campus."
The construction of the new building will help support visiting researchers
and the college's expanding curriculum, as well as community outreach in
environmental education, said Hulmes, who was enrolled in the college's first
academic course at Kino Bay when he was a student.
Groundbreaking for the new field station is expected sometime in the fall
of 2000.
"My dream is that the money donated in the memory of my mother will
help to actualize the potential of our Kino Bay Center. It is also my hope
that the building will be constructed in an environmentally appropriate manner
and it will reflect the cultural and natural systems it is designed to serve," said
Hulmes. "This, to me, would be a fitting legacy for both of my parents
and their commitment to education. I know it would make my mother proud to
know that her life will continue to touch and influence future generations
and they earth they depend on."
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