Roland Park Country School Honored with $1M Gift

8/24/15 — Jean Waller Brune, head of Roland Park Country School (RPCS), announced today that the Charles T. Bauer Charitable Foundation granted RPCS an endowment gift of $1M. “I am deeply grateful to the Charles T. Bauer Charitable Foundation,” said Brune, “for their unwavering commitment to the school, its philosophy and program, and for its steadfast support of our students.”

The Evelyn R. Zink Emergency Assistance Endowment will provide emergency financial assistance to students whose families experience an unexpected financial need that impacts their ability to pay school expenses. This fund honors the exemplary service of Evelyn R. Zink, Director of Development at Roland Park Country School from 1989 through 2015.

“I am profoundly honored and humbled by this gift to the school I dearly love. As the mother of three RPCS alumnae, I will always hold a special place in my heart for RPCS,” said Zink.

Zink has worked closely with the Charles T. Bauer Charitable Foundation since 2009. The foundation has provided annual grants of $50,000 to make it possible for Jean Waller Brune to provide “last minute” funding to families who undergo unexpected and often heartrending financial reversals during the course of the academic year. In 2014-2015, the foundation granted RPCS the endowment gift so these needs could be met in perpetuity. The Bauer family is pleased to present this award to RPCS and to publicly honor a woman who has served in an extraordinary manner on behalf of the school she has loved since 1989.