Manual Transfer Owner of the stock has physical possession of the stock certificates

Stock certificates physically held in your possession can be gifted in whole or in part to Saint Mary's College. If you wish to make a partial gift of shares held in a certificate, you will need to send the shares back to the company's transfer agent and request that the shares by split into two certificates - one in your name and one in the College's. Your broker or bank officer can help with this process.

If you have the stock certificates in hand, mail the unendorsed certificate(s) and a signed stock power (available from your financial services provider or print out and use our stock power) in separate envelopes. If you endorse the certificates over to the College's name (Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana) using the stock power printed on the back of the certificate, be sure to send these by registered mail. Endorsing the stock certificate makes it a negotiable instrument that may be cashed by anyone who might find it. Saint Mary's does not recommend endorsing the stock certificate.

Also, send a letter indicating that the shares are a gift to the College. The letter must by signed by all holders of record as shown on the front of the certificate.

Please mail the certificate(s), the stock power(s), and the letter to:

Mr. William Simon, Merrill Lynch
(574)282-3649 or (800) 678-0540
Fax (574)282-3607

Please remember to use separate envelopes for the signed stock power and the unendorsed certificate(s).