{"id":598,"date":"2016-02-03T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/?p=598"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:41:59","slug":"gerald-e-young-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/2016\/02\/03\/gerald-e-young-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald E. Young Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2576bf;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/files\/2013\/06\/Jerry_Young.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-319\" title=\"Jerry_Young\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/files\/2013\/06\/Jerry_Young.jpg\" alt=\"Donor Gerald E. Young\" width=\"148\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #4c7399;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Gerald E. Young Endowment<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The formation of the Gerald E. Young Endowed Scholarship Fund signifies the fulfillment of a keen desire\u00a0to make a difference in the lives of others. It was always Gerald\u2019s (fondly remembered as \u201cJerry\u201d) dream\u00a0to set up a scholarship to benefit EOU students.<\/p>\n<p>During the more than three decades spent at the university as\u00a0a faculty member, dean and later president of the EOU Foundation, Jerry touched the lives of many. Following\u00a0his death in 2009, Jerry\u2019s wife Arlene and their family came together and with the help of the EOU Foundation established a\u00a0permanently endowed scholarship in his memory.<\/p>\n<p>A permanently endowed scholarship can be established for a minimum $30,000 gift. For greater flexibility,\u00a0the amount can also be pledged over a five-year period. Interest earned in perpetuity from these funds provides\u00a0scholarships and long-term support for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald E. Young Endowment The formation of the Gerald E. Young Endowed Scholarship Fund signifies the fulfillment of a keen desire\u00a0to make a difference in the lives of others. It was always Gerald\u2019s (fondly remembered as \u201cJerry\u201d) dream\u00a0to set up a scholarship to benefit EOU students. During the more than three decades spent at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foundation-profiles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}