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Forget the Gift Wrapping: Ten Ways Private Gifts to Public Universities Can Change Lives
It's that time again. Time to give back to the community and decide which nonprofit organizations will receive your charitable gifts by December 31, while you get a nice tax deduction for 2006. For alumni, parents, faculty, staff and other supporters of public universities, year-end giving is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of students, researchers and faculty... .
Scholarship account set in Bradford's memory
When Kimberly Ann Holder Bradford died, her family was in shock. Now those family members are banding together to honor their loved one by providing a scholarship in her name to Durant seniors. Bradford was shot to death July 13 at age 42. Her children, Champ, Christian and Elizabeth, along with their father and uncle, have arranged for a Kimberly Holder Bradford Scholarship, in the amount of $500, to be given to one Durant senior per year. Virginia Holder, Bradford's mother, said her daughter had devoted her life to working with children. She began with an in-home daycare before opening the Learning Zone, located on Washington Avenue. At the time of her death, she was working for Smart Start, an organization that works with early childhood educators and parents.
Lorraine Lepere awarded D'Youville scholarship
NIAGARA FALLS -- For Lorraine Lepere, a highlight of attending college in the United States is double Thanksgiving celebrations. With a 3.7 cumulative average, she's also a committed student. Lepere, a senior mathematics major at D'Youville College in Buffalo, was chosen by the college as the recipient of a $1,000 Marguerite d'Youville Scholarship for her academic work and service in the community. The scholarship is named for St. Marguerite d'Youville, a Grey Nun, Sisters of Charity, who founded the order in the 1700s in Canada, and recognizes students for academic excellence and community services. When she read about the scholarship in an email from the school's administration, she immediately began to think about the essay she would submit. She wrote about an elderly couple who stayed in their New Orleans home throughout Hurricane Katrina's devastation of their city, and how she got separated from her tour group in Italy but managed to find unique tour guides and managed to communicate with them, even though they didn't speak any English and she could barely get by in Italian.
Nell Goff Scholarship Available
BAR HARBOR — The Nell Goff Scholarship will be awarded to a student entering his or her junior or senior year or graduate school in the fall of 2007. Applicants should be students majoring in, planning to major in, or planning to take a graduate degree in horticulture, floriculture, landscape or urban design, conservation, forestry, botany, agronomy, plant pathology, environmental control or other related fields. Applicants must be Maine residents. Their applications will be judged on the basis of academic record, vocational potential, vocational interests, character, and financial need. Applications: Lucy E. Creevey, 46 Birch Bay Drive, Bar Harbor, ME 04609; e-mail creevey@adelphia. net. Deadline: March 1. .
Northeast Campus News
Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., presented a Distinguished Alumnae Award to Helen Jacobson for her work as a community activist and pioneer for women in network radio. Marida Douglas earned a place on the president's honor roll at Texas State Technical College in Waco. Jessica Furgerson competed in the Lafayette College Debate Tournament in Easton, Pa., and was named tournament co-champion in the novice Lincoln-Douglas debate. St. Mary's University President Charles Cotrell signed a three-year agreement recently with Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, a Jesuit university in Guadalajara, to allow faculty and students to work together on research projects in a global economy. Baylor University in Waco selected the following students to serve as members of Student Foundation: Sara Akin, Charli Dominguez , Jana Edwards, Amanda Ericksen, David King, Sarah Stamper, Julie Thomas, Nick Wigle and Peyton Wofford.
Stanford selects Harbaugh as coach
Stanford hired former NFL quarterback Jim Harbaugh on Monday to take over its struggling football program.
Harbaugh had spent the last three years as head coach at the University of San Diego, a non-scholarship Division I-AA program.
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