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when you get an unex- PHARMACY ON DUTY
pectedly large donation? Oranjestad:
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a nonprofit with an annual San Lucas: Tel. 584 5119
budget of about $2 million,
sent about 200 high school Women in Difficulties
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research courses at univer- Dental Clinic 587 9850
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puzzled over what do to Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
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an estimated $200 million Women in Difficulties
about 100 times its annual EMERGENCY
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learned last year that one Noord 527 3200
of its alumni, Franklin Anto- Sta. Cruz 527 2900
nio, a co-founder of chip- San Nicolas 584 5000
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20% of his estate, said CEO Red Cross 582 2219
Frank Steslow. “The estate Participants in the Summer Science Program sit in a circle at Purdue University in West Lafayette,
is still being assessed and Ind., on July 21, 2023. TAXI SERVICES
appraised and there is not Associated Press Taxi Tas 587 5900
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well north of $960 million how to recraft the organi- which Steslow said is a ma- Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
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at this point,” Steslow said. zation around the bequest. jor part of the program’s A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
The board was not previ- They hired Steslow as CEO identify, but rather, the Women in Difficulties
ously aware that Antonio, in March, brought in con- nonprofit is seeking to start TRAVEL INFO
who died in May, 2022, at sultants to help them make partnerships at new univer-
the age of 69, had includ- a strategic plan, and in sities as well as to expand Aruba Airport 524 2424
ed the organization in his October, informed their into other STEM subjects. American Airlines 582 2700
will. Board members were alumni about the gift. The But they are also taking Avianca 588 0059
equally surprised when program intends to double their time before making Jet Blue 588 2244
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they learned of the poten- the number of students en- major decisions, like wheth-
tial amount of the gift, he rolled next summer to more er to establish a campus Women in Difficulties
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said. Members of the non- than 400 and increased its or physical location out of
profit’s board had previ- annual budget to over $7 which they could run pro- FAVI- Visually Impaired
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about making a major gift, the size of the cohorts, nization is fully remote.q Alcoholics Anonymous
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“Obviously, whatever was
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we don’t know for certain Quota Club Tel. 525 2672
what drove his thinking.” Women in Difficulties
Summer Science Program General Info
places students in groups of Phone Directory Tel. 118
36 to complete a research
project in astrophysics,
biochemistry or genomics,
under the supervision of
faculty advisors at universi-
ties like Indiana University,
Bloomington, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces,
and University of Colorado
Boulder. After the notifica-
tion, their board began in-
ternal deliberations about facebook.com/arubatoday/