{"id":606,"date":"2016-02-03T22:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:36:09","slug":"charles-and-rhoda-chollet-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/2016\/02\/03\/charles-and-rhoda-chollet-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles and Rhoda Chollet Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2576bf;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/files\/2013\/06\/Chollets_bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-294 size-full\" title=\"Chollets_bw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/files\/2013\/06\/Chollets_bw.jpg\" alt=\"Donors Charles and Rhoda Chollet\" width=\"148\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #4c7399;\"><span style=\"color: #00386b;\">Charles and Rhoda Chollet Endowment<\/span><span style=\"color: #00386b;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>In life, Charles and Rhoda Chollet carried such zeal for education that the couple wanted to continue making a difference even after they were gone.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the Chollet\u2019s set aside $934,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund for students in need at their alma mater.\u00a0Their posthumous estate gift is the third largest donation to the EOU Foundation in its 48-year history and will generate funds for multiple $3,000 per year scholarships to help needy students majoring in science and education.<\/p>\n<p>The Chollet\u2019s met and married at Eastern in the late 1940s. Charles went on to earn a Ph.D. in entomology and Rhoda completed her master\u2019s in education. They were married 57 years until Charles\u2019 death in 2003. Rhoda died in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles and Rhoda Chollet Endowment In life, Charles and Rhoda Chollet carried such zeal for education that the couple wanted to continue making a difference even after they were gone. That\u2019s why the Chollet\u2019s set aside $934,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund for students in need at their alma mater.\u00a0Their posthumous estate gift is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","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\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}