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The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation has provided a gift of $2,000,000 to the College of Engineering of the University of Michigan to establish and support an endowed, full professorship to be known as the Rollin M. Gerstacker Professor of Engineering. The holder will be a professor in the College of Engineering who will be appointed to the professorship for five-year renewable tenns.

The Regents of the University of Michigan have appointed Tamas I. Gombosi as the Rollin M. Gerstacker Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering, effective September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2012.

The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation

The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation was established in 1957 and has been donating to worthy causes for 50 years. That colorful palette of giving is owed to the foresight of Eda Gerstacker, wife of Rollin Gerstacker and their son, Carl Gerstacker. The Gerstacker family lived in Cleveland, Ohio and was active in many charities there. After Eda's husband died in 1945, she moved to Midland, Michigan to be with her daughter Elsa and her son Carl, a University of Michigan College of Engineering graduate, who worked for the Dow Chemical Company and subsequently became Chairman of the Board. The Foundation's purpose was to carry on, indefinitely, financial aid to charities of all types supported by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Gerstacker during their lifetimes.

The Gerstacker Foundation has made many notable grants, concentrated in the states of Michigan and Ohio, in the areas of general community support; colleges, universities and research institutions; music and the arts; social services; youth activities; health care and research; and churches.

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