CASE FOR SUPPORT
Rector Scholar Centennial Initiative
DEPAUW’S RECTOR SCHOLAR LEGACY Edward and Lucy Rowland Rector established the Rector Scholarship Endowment at DePauw in 1919 to provide full-tuition scholarships for 100 Indiana students to attend DePauw each year. Tuition was $75, enough in 1919 to be too expensive for many of Indiana’s brightest students. Unable to afford a college education himself, Edward Rector wanted as many hardworking students as possible to benefit from the privilege of a distinctive, liberal arts education. The Rectors called their endowment “investments in humanity, in the men and women who are to carry on the work of our country and the world when you and I are gone.” DePauw’s Rector Scholarship has propelled more than 4,000 DePauw alumni to lives of accomplishment. Their ranks include former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton ’52,
pharmaceutical executive Phyllis Ferrell ’94, entrepreneur Angie Hicks ’95, and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ferid Murad ’58. The remarkable gift of Lucy Rowland and Edward Rector is central to the culture of academic rigor, gratitude and philanthropy that defines DePauw University.
“I was a Rector Scholar, and I wouldn’t have been able to attend DePauw if not for this scholarship.” MEGAN MAY ’13 PH.D. CANDIDATE AT MIT-WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION JOINT PROGRAM BIOLOGY MAJOR AT DEPAUW 1
RECTOR SCHOLAR CENTENNIAL INITIATIVE
ENSURING STUDENT ACCESS TO DEPAUW The most promising prospective students, demonstrate excellent academic records, various extracurricular activities, leadership potential and drive for success. They are prepared to engage with DePauw’s broad offering of academic coursework and experiential learning, and they go on to become leaders in their communities and places of work. However, many such prospective students lack adequate financial resources to attend college. Our goal, with assistance from loyal alumni and friends, is to ensure DePauw is a university of choice and distinction accessible to ambitious young people from diverse backgrounds.
exploration from which to create lifelong success. Your contribution to DePauw’s Rector Scholarship Endowment can be made as a bequest or as a gift of cash or appreciated stock for the full amount or in installments over a period of several years. Email: Rector100@depauw.edu Phone: 800-446-5298 Write: P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135
RECTOR ENDOWMENT FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS “The centenary of Edward and Lucy Rowland Rector’s gift provides the opportunity to celebrate their vision and solidify the future of the Rector Endowment in its second century,” said Tom Schuck ’72, co-chair of the Rector Centennial Committee. Members of the Rector Centennial Committee invite alumni and friends to join them in assembling $14 million in gifts and commitments to augment the Rector Scholarship Endowment. The ambitious goal will increase the endowment to $40 million and provide full-tuition, four-year scholarships for 10 outstanding students in each first-year class – 1,000 more Rector Scholars over the next 100 years. “For me, as with many of the beneficiaries of the Rectors’ generosity, this gift made a life-changing experience possible,” said Mike Smith ’70, University trustee and cochair of the Rector Centennial Committee. “May we be so fortunate to bring the Rector Endowment back to the financial position necessary to serve outstanding DePauw students in perpetuity.”
“The Rector Scholarship was a deciding factor in my attending DePauw. My experiences at DePauw with the Science Research Fellows Program and my semester doing research at a lab at Harvard Medical School set me up for a successful career. ”
PHILANTHROPIC OPPORTUNITIES You can help bestow upon generations of young men and women the opportunity for an exceptional liberal arts education – a transformational experience of rigorous intellectual challenge, social engagement and creative
ERIN O’BRIEN ’96 OTOLARYNGOLOGIST, SURGEON, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LEADER - MAYO CLINIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MAJOR AT DEPAUW