{"id":27786,"date":"2025-02-25T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27786"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:40:47","slug":"sally-b-oxley-gifts-100000-to-establish-mark-s-taylor-memorial-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/sally-b-oxley-gifts-100000-to-establish-mark-s-taylor-memorial-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally B. Oxley gifts $100,000 to establish Mark S. Taylor Memorial Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Marshall University Foundation has announced a gift of $100,000 to establish the Mark S. Taylor Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is generously endowed by Sally B. Oxley in memory of Mark Taylor, who died April 21, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mark graduated from Marshall University in 1977 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in physical education and received his master\u2019s degree in physical therapy from West Virginia University in 1982. He was inducted into the Marshall University Sports Medicine Hall of Fame in 2006. Mark was a physical therapist and dedicated member of the Huntington Physical Therapy professional staff for 38 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark joined our staff of three in 1984 and helped us grow the practice to 25 staff and four offices,\u201d Oxley said. \u201cHe was always fiercely dedicated to the care and well-being of his patients. He continues to be missed by our staff and patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship recipient will be a graduate student in the School of Therapy who is a resident of West Virginia. First preference will be given to residents of Cabell and Wayne counties and has financial need per the standards of the Office of Student Financial Assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The award will be renewable up to two years, or four semesters, if the recipient maintains good academic standing of 3.5 GPA or higher. The dean of the School of Physical Therapy, or their designee, will select the recipient and renew the award in cooperation with the Office of Student Financial Assistance.<\/p>\n<p>For information regarding the Mark S. Taylor Memorial Scholarship, please contact Marshall University\u2019s Office of Student Financial Assistance at 304-696-3162.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University Foundation has announced a gift of $100,000 to establish the Mark S. Taylor Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is generously endowed by Sally B. Oxley in memory of Mark Taylor, who died April 21, 2021. Mark graduated from Marshall University in 1977 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in physical education and received his master\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27787,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786\/revisions\/27787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}