{"id":1975,"date":"2020-11-19T01:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T01:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:56:03","slug":"library-establishes-new-endowment-to-honor-carus-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Library Establishes New Endowment to Honor Carus Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1976 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0086w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0086w.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0086w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0086w-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0086w-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_0086w-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Rebecca Renshaw<\/p>\n<p>Morris Library has worked with the SIU Foundation to transfer $1 million from the Carus Mineral Trust to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreversiu.org\/news\/2020\/carus-family-endowment.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new Alwin C. Carus Endowment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Pollitz, dean of library affairs says the relationship the library has with the benevolent Carus family has been long standing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Carus family has been a valued supporter of the Morris Library and the Special Collections Research Center for over forty years. They have entrusted SIUC with the preservation and promotion of the complete papers of the Open Court Publishing Company. By creating this endowed chair, they have moved our relationship to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full press release and learn more about the Carus family and their commitment to science, religion and philosophy, click here. To support SIU\u2019s Morris Library, click <a href=\"https:\/\/siuf.org\/giving\/college-unit\/library-affairs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Renshaw Morris Library has worked with the SIU Foundation to transfer $1 million from the Carus Mineral Trust to create the new Alwin C. Carus Endowment. John Pollitz, dean of library affairs says the relationship the library has with the benevolent Carus family has been long standing. \u201cThe Carus family has been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=1975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Establishes New Endowment to Honor Carus Family<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donor-stories","category-higher-education","category-illinois-higher-education","category-siu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}