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Celebrating Gifts
with Double Impact
In their quest to guide healing and care for life, today’s nursing students are
the promise of tomorrow. Thanks to the generosity of our nursing alumni
and friends, 21 new scholarships and fellowships have been created to provide
deserving nursing students with the opportunity to succeed. To encourage
additional gifts of $25,000 and more, the University has developed matching
programs that double the impact of gifts for new endowed scholarships and
graduate fellowships. We are grateful for the donors who created the following
scholarships that have most recently qualified for matching University funds.
undergraduate scholarships:
I WANT TO BE A NURSE SCHOLARSHIP
In a wonderful gesture of support, alumni
from across the country have stepped
forward to make Buck-A-Year contributions
that celebrate the years since their own
graduation. Now topping $34,000, the
I Want to Be a Nurse Scholarship is fully
endowed to provide support for new undergraduate
students. In offering best wishes
to new graduates, Diane Witzig, MPH ’83,
wrote,“You will never be sorry you became a
nurse. Don’t ever stop your education. This is
a profession of life-long learning!”
HELEN COLBY NURSING SCHOLARSHIP
Funded by the estate of the late Helen
Colby, BSN ’51, the scholarship is for
deserving new undergraduate students
attending the School of Nursing. Helen
was originally from Cook, Minnesota. She
received her early nursing education in
Rochester, Minnesota, and later earned her
baccalaureate degree from the University
of Minnesota School of Nursing. After
graduating, she worked at the University
of Minnesota Hospital and many other
hospitals in the Twin Cities area until her
retirement in 1979. She passed away at the
age of 79.
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