FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Aug. 25, 2006
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
 

Joseph M. Gillette Scholar award established

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Joe Gillette, an Atlanta, Ga., resident, 1973 graduate of Marshall University and a member of the Society of Yeager Scholars Board of Directors, has established the Joseph M. Gillette Scholar award named in memory of his late father.   

The scholarship will go to a student selected to be a Marshall University Society of Yeager Scholar. Gillette has recommended incoming Yeager Scholar freshman Elizabeth Truex of Tallmadge, Ohio, as the inaugural recipient of the new scholarship.  She plans to major in microbiology.

“I’ve seen firsthand the quality and leadership of the young men and women chosen for this year’s Class of 20l0 Yeager Scholars program, Gillette said.  “They are all very exceptional people and scholars.”

Gillette said he is recommending Truex because he sees in her the promise he sees in his own two daughters, and also because she is from his home state of Ohio.

Founded in 1989 and named for Brig. Gen. (Retired) Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, the Society of Yeager Scholars seeks out and attracts to Marshall University students with outstanding leadership potential, as demonstrated by their intellect, breadth of interest, imagination, personal drive, and commitment to excellence.  Students selected for the program have been characterized as having the “right stuff” to make a difference in the world. 

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