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Griesemers endow Trustee Scholarship at Penn State Berks

University Park, Pa. -- Robert M. and Gloria W. Griesemer of Shillington have committed $52,000 to endow a Trustee Scholarship for students enrolled at Penn State Berks who have financial need. First preference for the Griesemer Trustee Scholarship will go to undergraduates majoring in engineering.
 
Robert Griesemer graduated in 1958 as a member of the last class of Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute (WPI), before its facilities were donated to Penn State for what eventually became the Berks campus. He retired in 2002 as a marketing manager for Reading-based Arrow International, a leading worldwide supplier of central vascular access catheterization products.
 
"Penn State Berks carries on WPI's dedication to excellence in technology and engineering education," he said. "Gloria and I are proud to be part of that tradition through this new scholarship."
 
Gloria Griesemer noted that "we feel a connection with the Berks campus area, and since we're retired and set financially, we wanted our gift to go to someone who could really use it."

Penn State's Trustee Matching Scholarship Program is designed to ensure that a Penn State education is accessible to qualified students, regardless of their financial means. Implemented in 2002 upon approval by the University's Board of Trustees, the program has a unique matching component in which the University matches 5 percent of the principal of each gift annually and combines these funds with income from the endowment to effectively double the financial impact of the scholarship. The program assisted nearly 4,400 students University-wide in 2006-07.
 
To learn more about the Trustee Matching Scholarship Program, visit http://www.giveto.psu.edu/Trustee.

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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