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Alumni Profile
Eberhard Berent and Paul Lott
Two Major Gifts for the Humanities
Inspired by their dedication to art and culture, two friends of NYU in Germany found creative ways to make generous gifts to the University. Eberhard Berent, professor emeritus of German at NYU, made a commitment to establish the Eberhard Berent Professor of Goethe in NYU's Department of German, and Paul Lott established the Paul Lott Lectureship and Fellowship Fund at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.
Berent is making his contribution through a combination of life income gifts, which will provide him with tax-free income throughout his lifetime, and a bequest. "I wanted to devote my money to something meaningful," says Berent, who taught at NYU from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1987. "The age of Goethe was the high period of German literature, and having a chair in Goethe will be a real boost for the Department of German at NYU."
Lott is supporting his named lectureship at the IFA through a combination of cash gifts and a charitable distribution through his IRA, and will fund his fellowships through a bequest. Although his career background is in tax and finance, he wanted to support fine art because of the positive influence it has played in his life. "I hope my lectureship will give students an insight into the working of an artist," Lott says. "It will focus on ideas, not just the painters and their technique, but what is behind them."
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Landmark Gift for Real Estate Institute
The School of Continuing and Professional Studies announced that its Real Estate Institute will be renamed the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate in honor of the Schack family, who over the past 100 years has owned and developed real estate in New York City.
The Schack family has donated a $10 million cash gift—the largest in the School’s history—to provide critical support for students, faculty, research, and physical infrastructure. The contribution is the lead gift in a campaign to build a permanent endowment for the 40-year-old Institute, the University’s home for applied research, graduate study, and continuing professional education in real estate, construction management, and related fields.
Scholarship Honors Beloved Publicist and TSOA Alumnus
The list of actors Robert Garlock (TSOA '88) represented during his career as an entertainment publicist reads like a "who's who" of A-list Hollywood talent: Penelope Cruz, Hugh Grant, Clive Owen, Hilary Swank, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Winslet, to name a few.
Sadly, Garlock's life and career were cut short when he passed away in September 2007 due to complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Now, thanks to the generosity of family, friends, and many of his celebrity clients, Garlock's memory will live on through the Robert Garlock Memorial Scholarship, which will be awarded to students with financial need in TSOA's Department of Cinema Studies.
Garlock's parents had no idea how many people admired him until after he passed away. "So many of his clients and colleagues came to the memorial service and told us that their careers would not have been the same without him," said his father, Richard.
Garlock's parents note that although their son worked with so many famous people, the glamour of Hollywood never diminished his work ethic. "Robert was always someone you could trust," Richard explains. "He earned everyone's respect. That was the kind of son we raised."