Lindgren's Award Helps Students Now and in the Future

When updating her estate plans, Patricia Crow Lindgren wanted to find a way to support West Virginia University and to support students preparing to become teachers. Pat has found a way to do both. She has established the WVU Teacher Leadership Award. By including a bequest in her will, she is establishing a future endowed fund to provide scholarships for students during their fifth year in the Benedum Collaborative Teacher Education Program.

In addition, Pat also decided to make annual gifts to the College of Human Resources & Education so that students could benefit from her scholarship immediately. Each year, two students preparing to become teachers, one from the elementary program and one from the secondary program, are receiving financial support based on the students' achievements leading up to their final year in the program.

" I believe it is so important that we have people who understand elementary and secondary level students and all of the needs they have today that we didnt have to address years ago," says Pat. "We need our young people to have a passion for the field that includes an education with a broad perspective."

Pat has been especially pleased with the on-the-job training that the Benedum Collaborative offers to its students through its partnership with 28 professional development schools, experiences that prepares them for life outside the academic classroom after they graduate.

Pat received her BS degree in 1951 from West Virginia University in home economics, which is now part of the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry & Consumer Sciences. She later earned her master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in the School of Retailing. She found her teaching degree from WVU to be beneficial to her careers in both the field of education and business. She is currently retired and resides in Williamsburg, VA.

Pat became a member of the Irvin Stewart Society after making this special gift. The Stewart Society honors and recognizes all donors who have provided support for WVUs future as a part of their estate and retirement planning.

Please contact Patty Ryan if you would like to become a member of the Irvin Steward Society and support the College of Human Resources & Education through one of these methods: a bequest in a will or revocable trust, a charitable trust or annuity, a gift of retirement assets, the donation of a life interest in real estate, or a life insurance policy.

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