Career Educators Give Back to Their Alma Mater Through a Charitable Gift Annuity
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Marilyn J. Kouba (CHEM ’50, M.S. ’63) and Marilyn W. John (TD ’56, M.S. EG ’62) remember the campus back in the 1950s. Female students in the sciences or engineering were a rarity. "It was a different time," they both say with a laugh.
Now retired, these career educators—Kouba taught chemistry for more than 35 years in the City Colleges of Chicago while John spent more than three decades on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee—credit their Illinois Tech educations for their accomplishments.
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"I am where I am thanks to Illinois Tech. My education was the best insurance policy I bought," John says.
Kouba and John recently made planned gifts to the university, becoming members of the Gunsaulus Society. A charitable gift annuity (CGA) allows them to support their alma mater while receiving a fixed income.
"I am giving to Illinois Tech while I am alive. It is an investment in the future of education," Kouba says.
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