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After their son Nicky ’22 broke his leg competing for the MIT indoor observe workforce in 2019, Mark and Teresa Medearis, 3,000 miles away in California, have been heartened by the outpouring of help from the MIT observe group and the Division of Student Life. “We were embraced by the community when we had this adversity,” Teresa says. “Our eyes were opened to MIT and how it cares for its students.”
Building bridges: Mark and Teresa are midway by means of finishing a present to endow the pinnacle teaching place for males’s and ladies’s cross-country. Teresa has served as vice chair of the Parent Leadership Circle—on a mission, she says, to “create a bridge for parents from California to MIT”—and is presently on the Corporation Development Committee. The couple can be now contemplating making a scholarship. “Two-thirds of MIT students are on some form of financial aid,” Teresa says. “That’s where the need is.”
Investing in minds and palms: “MIT changes the world in so many ways,” says Mark, a Silicon Valley lawyer. “The very first speech students hear is: ‘Come and help us make the world better.’” Teresa, an engineer, cites the alternatives MIT presents girls, who make up half the undergraduate enrollment and half the coed athletes within the nation’s largest Division III program. “Giving to MIT is an investment in the future,” she says. “There’s no better payoff.”
Help MIT construct a greater world. For extra info, contact Liz Vena: 617.324.9228; evena@mit.edu. Or go to http://giving.mit.edu.