Reflections Magazine Issue #57 - Spring 2002 | Page 9

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Endowed Scholarships:

Support Students Today
and for Years to Come
he single item with the largest dollar
figure attached to it in The Campaign for Siena Heights University
is scholarship endowment, with a goal of $2
million.
Scholarship endowment is one project, one
goal, for one purpose: Enabling students with
the ability and desire to attend Siena and
become competent, purposeful, ethical citizens of our world—regardless of their economic circumstances.
Contributions to the endowment fund produce interest income, year after year in perpetuity, to support the purpose designated by
the donor.

Assistance with impact
Patrick Irwin ‘86 is a good example of the
impact a scholarship can have. A successful
human resource professional and passionate
community activist in southwest Detroit, Pat
serves on the steering committee for The
Campaign for Siena Heights University. But
when he arrived at Siena in 1982, no one
could have predicted this future for him.
The son of an unskilled laborer with an eighth
grade education, Pat Irwin was about
to repeat the cycle of perpetual poverty when his high school counselor,
an Adrian Dominican Sister, told
him to “go to Siena Heights. They
care about people there. Somehow they will find a way to make
things work out.”
He came to Siena Heights; but
even with loans, he could not
cover h