John and Marty Frantz and Susan and Ross Frantz established an annually funded scholarship at 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校, which offers a lower entry point for creating a scholarship. It was awarded to student athlete Taylor LaPage (center), and she said it allows her to focus on her coursework and reduce her concerns about paying tuition and other expenses.
阿宾顿,爸爸. — The Frantz brothers — John, class of 1969, and Ross, class of 1975 — attended 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 相隔几年, but when they recently sat down together to reflect on their college years, they had similar thoughts on the lifelong impact of their time on campus.
“Coming here really shaped our young lives, and because of our education we were able to get good jobs and have the wherewithal to do something productive,约翰说.
“My education really helped me step out of my comfort zone,罗斯说, recalling a study abroad experience in Germany.
小类, 专家教师, campus athletics and the opportunity to develop long-running friendships helped steer them into careers and personal relationships that they still treasure, 他们说. Those experiences led the siblings and their wives, 马蒂和苏珊, to support 阿宾顿 students who need financial assistance to stay on the path to complete their degrees.
“We wanted to give back to something that was important in our lives, and we wanted to help students. Our Penn State experience is with us to this day,罗斯说.
The two couples created the Frantz Family Scholarship, a non-endowed, annually funded scholarship. Annually funded scholarships come with a minimum gift commitment of $12,500 paid over five years and offer a lower entry point for a scholarship than endowed funds, which generate a percentage of their value in perpetuity, 创建永久支持.
Annual scholarships allow gifts to go directly and immediately to students. 就像捐赠奖学金一样, 捐赠者可以设定标准, such as prioritizing students studying a particular major or who live in a specific geographic area, 奖学金是如何颁发的. The 2023-24 Frantz Family Scholarship was awarded to Taylor LaPage, a senior student-athlete.
“I’m so grateful for the support I received from the Frantzes. 因为奖学金, I can focus on my courses during my last year and not worry so much about how to pay the bills,拉佩奇说。, 谁在阿宾顿打排球.
Ross wants students to know that they have alumni supporting them so they can focus on earning their degrees.
“There are going to be times when you have tough courses or a tough professor or money is a problem, and we want to help students persevere. We helped our own children with college, and we know what a tremendous benefit it was for them. But it’s not the case for many students, so we want to help others along way,” he said.
Gifts like the Frantz Family Scholarship advance the University’s historic land-grant mission to serve and lead. 通过慈善事业, alumni and friends are helping students to join the Penn State family and prepare for lifelong success; driving research, outreach and economic development that grow our shared strength and readiness for the future; and increasing the University’s impact for families, 病人, and communities across the commonwealth and around the world. 欲知详情，请浏览 提高.事业单位.edu.
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