A gift for the love of learning
February 14, 2019 |
When he speaks with today’s Chemistry majors, he’ll likely mention influential professors like Bob Johnson (Professor emeritus of Chemistry); he’ll commend the Shakespeare and Philosophy courses—and more broadly the liberal arts—that animate the Jesuit education he treasures; and he’ll talk about the transformative experience of undergraduate research that inspired him to earn a doctorate at another pretty good university.Such stories explain why he and his wife Sarah (Edgecliff College alumna) have remained active in the Xavier community, keeping in touch with Barbara Hopkins and other faculty, meeting a long series of students, serving a term on the Board of Trustees, and supporting Xavier in numerous ways.
A year ago, that support provided our Chemistry students a new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) apparatus (pictured above). If you don't know already, ask Dan McLoughlin why we needed it so badly.
Take my word for it: the NMR is rather more sophisticated and a bit more expensive than the double-wide water heater it resembles!
Now that same support also includes the largest-ever gift to the College of Arts and Sciences, which establishes the Sarah and John Lechleiter Endowment for the Sciences.
A transformative gift, this endowment will insure that Xavier’s science students and faculty will always have the equipment they need for their own research experiences. Some of them, no doubt, will also be transformed.
Women and men for and with others? Sarah and John Lechleiter (XU 1975).
