Giving


Patrick Palsgrove ’95 and Jenny Matson Palsgrove ’95e have given to Grinnell for 27 consecutive years.

A lead gift from Dick Knapp ’76 will help build a Grinnell College film and media center in downtown Grinnell.




Steve Ginzbarg ’76 shares his Grinnell and life journey to help others living with bipolar disorder.

Surge of donor gifts provides laptops and hot spots for students.


In town early for football practices, Roger Roe ’70 first met his future wife, Paula Speltz Roe ’73, outside Burling Library during Paula’s freshman orientation week at Grinnell.

During the 1960s, Grinnell’s Program for Practical Political Education (PPPE) flourished, sponsoring elaborate mock political conventions in Darby Gym and bringing to campus a long list of luminaries, including former Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.