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Tributes to Ann Castle

Ann Castle's friends and colleagues at the University of Michigan are proud to recognize her important work on the vital role of women in philanthropy. Michigan was Ann's childhood home, and she and her family have had many strong ties to the University of Michigan. Ann had served as a consultant to help rebuild the research program of the University of Michigan Office of Development. She spoke to the University development community on two occasions about her research on women and philanthropy. She advised our Institute for Research on Women and Gender about funding sources. Ann was invited to work full-time in U-M development, but the success of her many other endeavors, including this excellent Web resource, proved too strong a pull in other directions.

Ann Castle of Deansboro, New York, died Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Utica, after a short illness. Ann was born October 10, 1951 in Addison, Michigan, daughter of Dennis L. (Jiggs) and Marjorie Ann Voorhees Castle. She grew up in Addison, Adrian, and Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated from local schools. She earned a bachelor's degree from Smith College and a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School. During these years, she worked as an administrator at Medicine in the Public Interest and as a development assistant at Smith College and Harvard Divinity School.

In 1988, she became Director of Development Research at Wellesley College. The folllowing year, she became Director of Development Research at Harvard University, where she remained until 1997. In August 1991, she married Richard Hughes Seager in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the two lived in Cambridge, MA. In 1997, Ann became Director of Development Research at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, where Richard had been named Associate Professor of Religious Studies.

For the last two years, Ann worked as an independent consultant in Development Research, working for Slate.com at Microsoft, the United Nations Foundation, and the White House Conference on Philanthropy. She was a member of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement, serving as its president from 1992-93, and of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She was editor of Philanthropic Digest and a nationally recognized authority on women and philanthropy.