Mrs. Anne Ward and her daughter, Mrs. Julie Klein, hosted a fundraising reception for Marshall’s Society of Yeager Scholars at their home in Bellefonte, Ky., on May 31.

The program brought together friends and alumni from the Ashland, Ky., area to celebrate the Yeager Scholars program at Marshall University, and to honor Mrs. Ward’s late husband, John Ward. Ward worked actively with the Yeager program from its inception to help make it one of the premier honors program offered by any university in our country today.

Marshall University’s 36th president, Dr. Stephen J. Kopp, and the new executive director of the Yeager Scholars Program, Dr. Barry Sharpe, were in attendance at the celebration.

Sharpe, who received his juris doctor degree from the Texas School of Law and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, was formerly the founding director of the Tusculum College Honors Program. 

The program included several speakers whom have witnessed first hand the excellent results of the Yeager Scholars Program.