Ernest Brandewie said there would have been nothing worse than getting up each morning and hating to go to work. That was not the case at IU South Bend. “I enjoyed teaching, the faculty, and the students. I didn’t enjoy grading papers,” he joked. “IUSB was good to us. It seems natural to give something back.”
Brandewie received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and came to campus in 1974 as an anthropology and sociology professor. He retired in 1996.
He and his wife, Pilar Nacu Brandewie, have created a charitable gift annuity to benefit the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In exchange for their irrevocable gift, the IU Foundation guarantees to pay them a fixed dollar amount each year of their life, a portion of which is tax-free income. Their gift will be part of an existing fund that supports the work of the department.
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The Brandewies met with sociology department chair Scott Sernau and Jan Halperin, director of development, to discuss the gift.
Through his time on campus, Brandewie taught hundreds of students, was assistant to the chair of liberal arts and was instrumental in getting the Bachelor of Science for nursing established. The nursing degree was “good for the county and good for IUSB.”
When he first came to the area, he thought of it as a short-term move. “It was a good choice. I never tried to move. There were so many good faculty members,” he said. And he enjoyed the students who had a wide range of interests and opinions.
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