Mary Lou Fulton, 82, passed away October 1, 2015. She was an alumna of ASU and one of its most generous supporters. Fulton and her husband, Ira A. Fulton, are the largest individual donors in the university’s history. ASU’s Teachers College is named for Mary Lou. In addition to the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Ira and Mary Lou encouraged others to give to the university through the Fulton Challenge grant-match program. Their financial support includes the gifts that established the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the ASU Decision Theater. The ASU Foundation building is also named for the Fultons. In the early 1950s, Mary Lou enrolled in ASU’s then-College of Education. She met Ira Fulton, then an ASU football player, in 1953. They wed in June 1954 and had three children. She put her education on hold to raise her family, but returned to earn her degree in 1975. "Mary Lou’s great passion was teaching children to read, lifting their self-esteem and giving them lifelong learning skills,” said ASU President Michael M. Crow. “I loved working with my students in remedial reading,” Fulton said in 2003. “Those children were precious, and I learned more from them than they did from me.”The Fulton family has generously requested that those wishing to honor Mary Lou Fulton’s legacy consider making a memorial gift to Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Memorial Fund. Gifts can be made online at asufoundation.org/maryloufultonmemorial or mailed to: Kimberlee Rowe, Assistant Director Business & Fiscal Operations, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, Arizona 85069-7100. (Source: ASU Insight)