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Joseph Family Establishes Endowment, Names Presentation Room
Dr. K. Carlton Buchanan Jr., trustee, GGC Foundation; Dr. T.J. Arant, then-senior vice president for Academic and Student Affairs and provost; Dr. Jann L. Joseph, president; Jennifer Hendrickson, associate vice president for Advancement, and Bartow Morgan Jr., chair, GGC Foundation, stand near a portrait of Dr. Edwin Joseph during a dedication ceremony of the Joseph Family Presentation Room last fall.
President Jann L. Joseph and her family have pledged $50,000 to endow a GGC scholarship fund and name a special room on campus. The Joseph Family Scholarship will support social sciences majors. The Joseph Family Presentation Room, located near the GGC Welcome Center in Building D, will be used for orientation, admissions sessions and a starting point for campus tours. Both the scholarship and presentation room honor the memory of Dr. Edwin Joseph, Joseph’s late husband, who succumbed to cancer in 2018. His portrait is displayed in the presentation room. At the presentation room’s dedication ceremony last fall, Joseph recalled a time when she and her late husband adopted a motto of “leave it better than you met it.” As they advanced in their careers, they kept their promise. “My family and I have been so blessed – blessed families share so they can help those around them,” she said. “This endowment will support students and will enable them to understand that they don’t have to wait until they have a lot to give back.” Dr. K. Carlton Buchanan Jr., a GGC Foundation trustee, announced that the foundation board of trustees would also contribute to the fund.
“As we all know, scholarships are so important, and especially at this time of the pandemic, support for our students could not be more critical in helping them with their path to graduation,” he said. A Trinidad native, the late Dr. Joseph was a sustainability studies professor at Indiana University South Bend. He had a passion for helping the less fortunate and an enthusiasm for sustainable techniques and technologies that improve farmers’ well-being, productivity and earning potential. The Josephs were married for 36 years.
