Because it is Founder's Day...

Note: This message was originally sent on October 21, 2019

The document captured here is from our archives….it dates October 1882 and reads….  

The undersigned citizens of Spokane Falls and vicinity hereby subscribe the sum of money set opposite our names respectively to aid Joseph M Cataldo in constructing a college building or rather one wing of a building to be used as a college under supervision of the Jesuits.  The wing or building now proposed to be erected will be of brick or stone and in size not less than forty feet wide by eight feet long and three stories high.  Said building to be located and built on the south half of section (17) in township (25) north range (43) east. 

It is proposed to commence said building early in the spring of 1882 and have the same ready for use as a college in the autumn of the same year.

The amount subscribed by each of us is to be paid in three equal payments – one third on our about the first day of March 1882 when said building or work should be commenced, one- third on the first day of June 1882 and the balance – one third to be paid on the 15^th day of August 1882 when said building shall be enclosed.  Dated this day October 1882

And it was signed by 15 individuals, among these names… J. N. Glover; A.M. Cannon, L. Ziegler and Son, J.J. Browne, J. Monaghan, S. Heath

137 years ago these individuals stepped forward to help make reality a building that would become Gonzaga College.  Today, tens of thousands of souls later, we continue to be a community that gives back. Members of this community embrace our mission, vision and values at the highest level, feeling a responsibility to participate in paying it forward.  We know each of you believe in who our students are becoming and experience great joy in helping them achieve their full potential.  THANK YOU!

It is our honor to carry forward – with all of you - the many stories of giving at Gonzaga – for generations to come!