FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, 304-696-7153
 

Marshall University’s Society of Yeager Scholars program receives
$15,000 grant from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A grant of $15,000 from the Board of Trustees of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., will help support Marshall University’s Society of Yeager Scholars.

The donation, which Marshall University received on June 11, is the second gift from the California-based Hilton Foundation, which was established in 1944 by hotel entrepreneur Conrad N. Hilton. Offices are located in Los Angeles, Calif., and Reno, Nev. The first gift, also $15,000, was presented in August 2008.

“This gift, as stipulated in our proposal, will be deposited into the Society of Yeager Scholars greatest needs fund to support our current and in-coming Yeager Scholars,” said Bob Galardi, Director of Major Gifts for the Society of Yeager Scholars. “The grant will assist us in our efforts to replace the funds lost in the market over the past few months, and compete with the rising costs of our Yeager Scholars’ studies at Marshall.”

“The continued kindness of the Hilton Foundation demonstrates the importance of securing new funding sources needed to grow our program and our university into the 21^st Century,” Galardi said.

For more information or to contribute to the Society of Yeager Scholars, contact Galardi at (304) 696-3336 or e-mail him at galardi@marshall.edu.

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