Dr. Booth earned both her master’s and doctorate from Illinois State and then taught in the History department. She has enjoyed a distinguished career as a tenured professor of history and women’s studies at Kent State University, receiving the “Women of Professional Excellence Award” in 2000. Currently, she is the associate provost for academic quality improvement. David Booth is also an alum, earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and his master’s degree in mathematics. He taught statistics at Illinois State and now teaches business statistics at Kent State. 

The Booths not only funded the Wyman Scholarship, but also endowed the Kenneth N. Berk Fund for Graduate Students in Statistics and supported the Herman E. Brockman Alumni Seminar Series in Genetics.

The Mark Wyman Scholarship is a gift from a student honoring an educator. At Illinois State, many educators have chosen to honor future students with scholarships. After educators retire from their classrooms, many wish to continue encouraging and educating students through a monetary gift. For example, Dorothy Lee established the Dorothy E. Lee Endowment Fund for non-traditional female students and Sandra Harmon the Harmon Minority Scholarship in History to attract outstanding undergraduate minority students to the department. Two mathematics professors, Orlyn Edge and Phares O’Daffer, set up the Orlyn P. Edge Actuarial Scholarship and the Phares O’Daffer Graduate Fellowship. Two politics and government faculty, Tom Eimermann and George Gordon, provided for the Tom Eimermann Scholarship for pre-law students participating in the Mock Trial Program and the George Gordon Scholarship in U.S. Public Affairs, and Audrey Grupe established the Audrey Grupe Scholarship to recruit students in the school psychology specialist degree program.

These seven examples of faculty honoring students and two examples of former students honoring faculty are just a few in the Redefining “normal” story. Other College of Arts and Sciences scholarships established during the campaign include the following:

Grabill-Homan Peace Prize

Bohn Nielsen Healthcare Preprofessional Scholarship

Healthcare Preprofessional Teaching And Research Endowment

Graduate Teaching And Research Endowment

Conservation Biology Teaching And Research Endowment (Cb-Trend)

Dr. Ann R. Stroink Graduate Fellowship In Neuroscience

Dr. Ramsin Benyamin Graduate Fellowship In Neuroscience

Dr. Keith And Nita Kattner Graduate Fellowship In Neuroscience

Dr. Ricardo Vallejo Graduate Fellowship In Neuroscience

Economics: Faculty Development

William Morgan Poetry Award

Jean Ann Martin Honegger Scholarship

Luellen Laurenti Scholarship

Petrossian Tarrant Scholarship

Douglas Clay Ridgley Visiting Professor Of Geography

Vicki L. Kelley Scholarship Fund

Marvin D. Kleinau Scholarship in Debate

Marvin D. Kleinau Scholarship In Extemporary Speaking

Phyllis A.(Fehlhaber) Bair Scholarship in Math

Alba Gonzales Thompson Scholarship Fund

Kay B. Wilson Scholarship

Michael F. Canney Endowed Scholarship In Science

Hunt Family Fund

Bulandr Family Endowment Fund