{"59190":{"#nid":"59190","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Remembrance of Ferdinand A. \u0022Ski\u0022  Hilenski","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFerdinand A. \u0022Ski\u0022  Hilenski, II, Director of Development for the Ivan Allen College, died Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from sudden complications due to a lengthy struggle with cancer.  He was 62 years old.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESki enjoyed a long and immensely successful career at Tech. He was Director of Development and Public Relations for the College of Architecture from 1993 to 1999.   In 2000, he became the founding development officer for the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.  Imaginative and intrepid, Ski shaped the fledging College\u0027s development profile mining unconventional sources of funding.  In a remarkable tour de force during the last decade, he raised more than $35 million and secured the College\u0027s endowment in perpetuity.  At the time of his death, he led Georgia Tech academic units in the current funding campaign with commitments totaling 85% of the goal for the College.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESki received his AB in English and Philosophy from Pfeiffer College (1969), and an MA (1970) and PhD (1974) in English Literature from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  He was a FIPSE\/Mina Shaughnessy Post-doctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Education in 1983-4, and a Fulbright Research Fellow to the United Kingdom in 1993.  He contributed to numerous scholarly articles and authored and\/or edited two books including \u003Cem\u003EThe CASE Handbook for the Unit Advancement Officer\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to Georgia Tech, Ski worked in development for the UT College of Liberal Arts and served as Associate Dean for Grants and Development for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.  Throughout his career, he was active as a teacher and lecturer and in university governance.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBorn January 1, 1947 in Key West, Florida, Ski had travelled widely and lived in Morocco and Britain.  He loved Georgia Tech and described his work here as \u0022his therapy.\u0022  Many on campus remember the bow-tie clad Ski as the first person to reach out to them.  He had extensive knowledge of Georgia Tech\u0027s history and delighted in welcoming new colleagues with his (self-described) \u0022Polish tours\u0022 .  He was widely regarded as one of the most caring, collaborative, and determined individuals in our midst. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESki Hilenski is survived by his wife, Lu, a daughter, Cate Hilenski, and a son Jesse Hilenski. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMemorial Service for Ski Hilenski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSaturday, August 22\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3:00pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta Friends Meeting\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n701 W. Howard Avenue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecatur, GA  30030.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn lieu of flowers, the family prefers that Ski be honored by donations through the Georgia Tech Foundation to The Hilenski Memorial Fund.  The fund will enrich the Ivan Allen College Initiative - the project on which Ski was working at the time of his death and which he viewed as the most important professional achievement of his life.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Foundation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHilenski Memorial Fund\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n760 Spring Street, NW\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, GA, 30308.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ferdinand A. \u0022Ski\u0022  Hilenski, II, Director of Development for the Ivan Allen College, died Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from sudden complications due to a lengthy struggle with cancer.  He was 62 years old.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"College Development Director Dies"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2009-07-31 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:46","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59191":{"id":"59191","type":"image","title":"tfc67581.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176217","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:57","changed":"1475894390","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190898","name":"tfc67581.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfc67581_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfc67581_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32870,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tfc67581_0.jpg?itok=aOKioIE5"}}},"media_ids":["59191"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"351","name":"development"},{"id":"10094","name":"Hilenski"},{"id":"955","name":"ivan allen college"},{"id":"168643","name":"ski"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}