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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
Marshall’s Society of Yeager Scholars program receives $205,000 grant from Ashland Inc. Fund of the Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –
The Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc., presented Marshall University’s Society of Yeager Scholars with a gift of $100,000 on Friday, Feb. 29.
Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc., President Mary Witten Wiseman, second from left, presents a check for $100,000 to Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp, second from right, on Friday, Feb. 29. Looking on are, at left, Bob Galardi, Director of Major Gifts for the Society of Yeager Scholars, and, at right, Dr. Barry Sharpe, Executive Director of the John R. Hall Center for Academic Excellence. The $100,000 represents the first payment toward a six-year gift from the Foundation to the Yeager Scholars program totaling $205,000.
The check, presented by Foundation President Mary Witten Wiseman to Marshall President Stephen J. Kopp, represents the first payment toward a six-year gift from the Foundation to the Yeager Scholars program totaling $205,000.
The gift was made with funds from the Ashland Inc. Donor Advised Fund of the Foundation of the Tri-State Community, Inc. The grant was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Tri-State at its February 2008 meeting.
“This gift, as stipulated in our proposal, will be deposited into the Ashland Inc. Endowment for the Society of Yeager Scholars program at Marshall,” said Bob Galardi, Director of Major Gifts for the Society of Yeager Scholars. “It will bring the total of the Ashland Endowment to an amount that represents more than 30 percent of our Yeager Scholars total endowment.
“If it were not for Ashland Inc. and the kind folks at the Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc., there would not be a Yeager Scholars program at Marshall.”
Galardi said the gift represents the very best outcome of “people working with people to improve one of the most unique scholarships in our state and in our nation, here at Marshall University.”
For more information on the challenge grant to the Yeager Scholars, contact Bob Galardi at (304) 696-3336.