Thrive in ’25
Serving Up The Future
Building on our success since 2011 by upgrading the Club facilities to position us for continued excellence over the next 15 years. Donate today and double your impact with 100% matching funds provided by the Club!
$1.374M raised as of 01/19/2026
92% of goal
We are now in the home stretch of our funding campaign! We are exceedingly grateful to a Club alumnus who has generously stepped forward and pledged to match every donation up to $100,000 to help accelerate us toward our funding goal! Our Thrive in ’25 funding campaign ends February 28, 2026.
Donate to Thrive in ’25
Donate today to help us reach our funding goal. Every donation up to $100,000 will now be matched by a donation from one of our exceedingly generous alumni! Please click on your preferred payment method below:
Credit Card
Click the button below to make your donation. You can select one of the three quick preset donation amounts or click “Other” to enter your desired donation. If you’d like to also cover the credit card processing fee, check the box below the donation amounts.
Venmo
- Venmo us at @cannonclub
- In the “What’s this for?” box, please enter “Thrive in ’25” along with your name and graduating class year.
Check
- Make your check payable to Princeton Cannon Dial Elm Foundation.
- In the check memo field, please enter “Thrive in ’25 Donation.”
- Mail your check to the address below:
c/o Cannon Dial Elm Club
P.O. Box 7788
21 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08543-7788
Via donation to the PPF
- At the Princeton Prospect Foundation (PPF) Donate page, please click the “Donate Online” button in the Cannon Dial Elm Club section.
- Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowable under IRS regulations for the Princeton Prospect Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
Thrive in ’25 Deadline Countdown
The Thrive in ’25 donation campaign ends February 28, 2026 so get your donations in as soon as you can (the donation box is right above)!
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Read the article:
Cannon Dial Elm Club readies for renovation in 2025
by Isabella Roberts and Elisabeth Stewart, November 15, 2024
Cannon Dial Elm, the next 15 years!
We will break ground on construction and renovation work in early summer. The updated and improved club will be complete and open for business by Labor Day 2026 and ready for the 2026-2027 academic year. Design renderings below show you roughly what the club will look like after we open.
Elite Sponsor opportunity
Our club is very fortunate to have an extraordinary, actively-involved alumni base, a number of whom have the ability to make significant financial contributions to the club. With this in mind, we are providing each of our alumni with the opportunity to become an Elite Sponsor for a significant contribution to our Thrive in ‘25 campaign.
The generosity of our Elite Sponsors has helped the club provide outstanding service to our members since 2011 and their contributions to the Thrive in ’25 initiative will help propel the club strongly into the 15 years to come.
In appreciation of their extraordinary generosity, Elite Sponsors will be recognized on this website, in signage at our post P-rade party, and with naming rights to different parts of the club if they so desire.
| Sponsor level | Naming right | Donation level |
|---|---|---|
| Titanium | Room | $100,000 or more |
| Platinum | Dining room table | $50,000 – $99,999 |
| Gold | Top of bar | $25,000 – $49,999 |
Select Sponsor opportunity
Donors who contribute between $5,000 and $24,999 to the Thrive in ’25 initiative, will have their names highlighted as Select Sponsors when we recognize all of our extremely generous donors.
| Sponsor level | Donation level |
|---|---|
| Principal | $10,000 – $24,999 |
| Foundation | $5,000 – $9,999 |
If you are interested in becoming an Elite Sponsor or a Select Sponsor, please contact us and a Grad Board member will reach out to you.
Young alumni competition
Game on!
In the spirit of our members’ highly competitive nature, we launched a donation contest among our younger alumni in the spring of 2025. Congratulations to the class of 2015 for raising the highest dollar amount per class, and to the class of 2017 for having the highest class donor participation rate! Winners were rewarded with a Winners Wagon along the P-Rade route on Whitman Hill filled with cold beverages and snacks.
We will host another donation campaign in the spring of 2026 to keep up the momentum. Classes will compete for a super special to-be-revealed prize. Keep an eye on your inboxes, Cannon Dial Elm alums since 2013!
Current challenges
Kitchen & Servery: Much of our kitchen equipment is nearing end-of-life and there is a very significant cost to replace these commercial-grade appliances within a kitchen designed to serve 200+ members. The servery is also in need of upgrades to improve meal handling and service efficiency.
Dining Room: While we are not currently seeking to significantly increase Club membership, we still face a pressing need for dining space expansion (+48 seats) in order to accommodate larger-scale dining events like Parents Weekend and events where members are accompanied by a non-member plus-one.
Workspaces: Our student workspaces and study areas need significant upgrades to reflect a level of functional, technological, and aesthetic sophistication comparable to what Princeton University graduates are likely to see in their future professional endeavors.
Competition: A number of our fellow (bicker) eating clubs have either upgraded their facilities or are planning to do so.
Investing for success
The storied Cannon Dial Elm Club is generally regarded as a welcoming home away from home for the largest family you’ve ever seen (217 members).
The club completed its last major set of renovations and upgrades prior to 2011. We have reaped the rewards of those investments, developing a reputation for serving the best meals on the Street, becoming the club for highly accomplished students who come to us from a very wide diversity of backgrounds and locations, putting on some of the best social events anywhere, and as the place where members go to have fun, unwind, study, work collaboratively, and develop lifelong friendships.
Today, the club is financially sound with a thriving and actively-involved membership roster of both students and alumni. However, after more than a decade, we must invest for the next chapter in the club’s story.
Thrive in ’25 Donors
Thank you to all of the alumni who donated to the Thrive in ‘25 campaign to help us realize our club construction dreams!
Elite Donors
Titanium
Bob Myslik ’61
Lee Spencer, Jr. ’65
Robert Axelrod ’69
Charles Freyer ’69
Platinum
Jerry Asher ’63
Robert Eisenstadt ’63
Vincent Hock ’63
G. Arthur Hyland, Jr. ’63
Ed Murphy ’64
Karl Ege ’65
Robert Ehret ’67
Gold
Fred Bacher ’56
Anthony Atkiss ’61
William C. Leigh ’64
Richard Prentke ’67
Michael O’Neill ’69
Bernard Stiroh, Jr. ’88
Bob Dougherty ’15
Select Sponsors
Principal
David Oxman ’62
Bryce Chase ’63
Dennis O’Toole ’63
Timothy Burman ’64
Robert Casey ’67
Ronald Innerfield ’67
John Shapiro ’73
Matt Flournoy ’76
Bryan Gillespie ’77
Chris Price ’83
Gabie Figueroa ’14
Foundation
Gerald Levisay ’64
John M. Sherwood ’64
Kenneth Boudreaux ’65
Bill Davis ’65
Joseph Cassels ’88
Greg Kuzma ’88
Patrick Leach ’98
Joe Goss ’14
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