Dr. Charles and Sarah Test cared strongly about the community in which they lived and entrusted CICF to help they leave their legacy. Visit cicf.org/planned-giving for more information!

1. DR. CHARLES AND SARAH DAVOL TEST
A Love Story

2. PREFACE
“THEY WERE BOTH VERY PLEASANT
people,” says Kristin Fruehwald, attorney
for Dr. Charles Test and his wife, Sarah.
“They had very definite philanthropic
passions, and they were both committed to
them.”
Sarah Davol Test died on November 19th,
2011, just four days after her husband of 56 years,
Dr. Charles E. Test. Two months later, a planned gift
made by Dr. and Mrs. Test was received by Central
Indiana Community Foundation. According to
Fruehwald, it was a very deliberate and purposeful
gift, one that reflected the couples’ long-held values
of giving back to the community they called “home.”

3. CHAPTER…
…ONE
DR.TEST CAME FROM A FAMILY
whose roots he traced to 1651.
The Test family made its way to central Indiana
in the mid-1800’s and ultimately to Indianapolis,
where Dr. Test’s father, Donald Newby Test, helped
found the National Auto Company.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 10,
1916, Dr. Test graduated from Princeton University
before receiving his MD degree from Chicago
University in 1941 and then receiving his medical
training at the Indiana University Medical Training
Center.
In 1942 Dr. Test joined the Army’s Medical
Corps., and spent the next three years in the Pacific
Theater of World War II, including stations in
Australia, New Guinea and the Philippine Islands.

4. CHAPTER…
…TWO
SARAH DAVOL WAS BORN IN
Fall River, Massachusetts…
…To Charles Dean and Sylvia Barrington
Davol. She graduated from the Master’s School in
Dobbs Ferry, NY, and after later joining the Red
Cross, was assigned to the 31st hospital in New
Caledonia – also in the Pacific Theater.
But the couple doesn’t meet during the war.

5. CHAPTER…
…THREE
IN 1954, SARAH VISITS INDIANAPOLIS,
and meets Dr. Test, a widower with two
young children.
Eight months later, they were married. Soon,
two more children are added to the family which
now includes: Dr. Charles, Sarah, Charles,
Samuel, Deborah and Abigail Test.
The Test family was active in their
community, becoming members in the Athletic,
Drama, Progressive and Columbia clubs, and
devoted supporters of the Indiana University
School of Medicine and many other organizations
they felt important.
Their children grow, and go to school, then
college, then on to their lives.

6. CHAPTER…
…FOUR
“MY FATHER TAUGHT ME TO GIVE
to what you believe in while you’re alive,”
says Charles Davol Test. “That way you’ll
get to know the organization and have a
sense of how they’ll treat your gift after
you’re gone.”
Each summer the family returns to Sarah’s
beloved Massachusetts. There they fish and boat,
relax and vacation.
Both Sarah and Charles are passionate about
nature and being outdoors. It is a love they nurture
throughout their lives and they became avid
supporters of Nature Conservancy.

7. CHAPTER…
…FIVE
IN1998, DR. TEST IS INTRODUCED
to Central Indiana Community Foundation
by Kristin Fruehwald, the couple’s attorney.
“I had talked to him about CICF, and how
the foundation could accomplish the planned gifts
he wanted to make,” she says.
Sarah Test is dedicated to the Nature
Conservancy and the Sally Test Pediatric Centre at
Kenya.
Dr. Test’s philanthropic passions include
supporting Earlham College, Indiana University
School of Medicine, the Genneserat Free Clinic,
the Historic Woodruff Foundation and the Wishard
Memorial Foundation – and CICF’s Marion County
partner, The Indianapolis Foundation.

8. CHAPTER…
…SIX
“DR. TEST BECAME VERY PASSIONATE
about CICF,” says Fruehwald.
“At first he saw leaving a planned gift with
CICF as a way that he could support the
organizations he felt strongly about,” she says. “But
he was also pleased that his support would receive
CICF’s oversight in perpetuity.”
“CICF’s staff made this process very easy,”
says Fruehwald. Besides creating the fund
agreement for Dr. Test, CICF staff also works with
Fruehwald and her client to discuss fund’s terms.
And they do much more than that.

9. CHAPTER…
…SEVEN
THOUGH THE TESTS MAKE GIFTS
to CICF while they are alive, Dr. Test
creates a Donor-Designated Endowment
Fund as part of the couple’s estate.
“CICF’s staff is very good at presenting
donors with options and additional considerations
while not steering donors away from their original
intent,” Fruehwald continues. “They are very
organized and experienced, and very good with
these types of planned gifts.”
The gifts the Tests wish to leave reflect their
values, Fruehwald says, and dedication to the
communities and people they felt strongly about.

10. CHAPTER…
…EIGHT
“THEY WERE ASSETS TO THE
community,” says Fruehwald. “And I’m
sorry they’re gone.”
Generous gifts from Dr. Test’s estate have
funded the Charles E. Test Fund for Scholarships
(a donor-designated endowment fund). The Fund
will award grants annually starting in 2013 to IU
School of Medicine and Earlham College for
scholarships – in perpetuity. The students will be
known as the Charles E. Test Scholars.
Few of those served by the pediatric center
Sarah supported, or the students Dr. Test helped
educate, will know about the couple. Yet their lives
will be changed for the better nonetheless.

11. CREATING…
…A PLANNED GIFT…
…DOESN’T HAVE TO BE DIFFICULT.
Let CICF’s expert staff help.
Though saddened by their passing, we are
proud that Dr. and Mrs. Test entrusted CICF to help
them leave the legacy they wanted. We provide
these services to families and their legal and
financial advisors on a daily basis, and have since
The Indianapolis Foundation was created in 1916.
CICF is committed to fulfilling our donors’
wishes as they intended, and to ensuring their love,
care and compassion is forever remembered as a
result.

12. LOOKING FOR INFORMATION
about planned giving, and how CICF can
help with your legacy?
Please call our Senior Gift
Planning Advisors at 317.634.2423,
or visit: www.cicf.org/planned-giving.