The Alumnus Proud of the years he spent as a student, administrator and faculty member at Albright, Marlow decided to head up his 50th class reunion in 1999. "We had great fun. Different classes have different senses of identity. Our class had a bunch of nuts in it!" Marlow says the class got off to an early start planning for a reunion full of fun and excitement…and that it was.	In 1999, Marlow, chair of his 50th class reunion, presented the then-president, Ellen Hurwitz with a check for $92,024 on behalf of the class.

But in addition to the fun, Marlow says, "We decided, in honor of professor emerita Annadora Shirk, we would raise enough money to give a faculty award in her honor at Commencement. We raised $92,000. We were really happy about that."
In fact, he says, "we only needed $50,000 to endow the award, but we decided to go ‘whole hog’ and ended up with $92,000."

Perhaps Marlow was so enthusiastic because of his great appreciation for the institution that gave him his education and his life.

"I was never qualified to teach in college. I got opportunities at Albright that I couldn’t have gotten anyplace else," he says. In fact, the year Marlow retired, he says, "Albright gave me an honorary doctorate. It was kind of like being accepted even though I was unqualified. That feeling of being accepted all those years really motivated me."