Providing for a scholarship through your will or revocable living trust is really a very simple process. Donors can specify in their will or trust that a certain portion of their estate (or a specific dollar amount) will be used to fund a scholarship in the College of Agriculture.

Donors can name the scholarship after themselves or after someone they wish to honor and memorialize, perhaps someone who has had a special impact on their life. In the College of Agriculture, there are 23 scholarships named after individuals, such as the Evan "Bally" Pyrah Agricultural Scholarship Endowment. There are another 52 scholarships named after individuals in various departments within the college, such as the School of Family and Consumer Science’s Mary Hall Niccolls scholarship series for women.

For more information on how you can provide for scholarships through your estate plan, contact: Edward J. McBride, Director of Gift Planning, University of Idaho, 619 Nez Perce Drive, Moscow, Idaho 83844-3201. He can be reached at (208) 885-7069 (phone), (208) 885-4483 (fax), or via email at mcbride@uidaho.edu

Award Winner

College of Agriculture alumna Peggy L. (Van Sice) Phillips (B.S. microbiology ’74‚ M.S. bacteriology ’76) received the University of Idaho Silver & Gold Award on May 16, 2000, in Seattle at a reception held in her honor. Phillips is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Immunex Corporation, a Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company specializing in the production of new products for fighting cancer as well as inflammatory and infectious diseases.

Staff Changes

Casey (Jacobsen) Hanson (B.S. agriculture ’91, B.S. communications ’91), right, is the new development coordinator for the College of Agriculture Advancement Office. She will be developing and promoting College of Agriculture alumni events around the state and assisting with college fundraising. Previously, Hanson was the development coordinator for the College of Art and Architecture. Hanson joined Caroline Nilsson, left, who recently left her position as assistant dean of advancement for the college to become associate director of development for the UI.