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November 18, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
Chris Casaburi, for The Chronicle
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Polytechnic University(Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Description: A giant metal abacus with wooden beads stands outside the university’s science-and-technology library.
Purpose: To recruit and honor donors who belong to the Poly 100, whose members have pledged $50,000 or more to an endowed scholarship fund.
Number of donors included: 73
How donors are honored: Each bead on the abacus is engraved with a donor’s name.
Creative strategy: The Russian abacus, a foundation of modern mathematics that has 100 beads, symbolizes the Poly 100, whose gifts make the scholarship program possible.
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Designer: A. D. Lubow, New York
Cost: $12,000
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