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Connecticut College receives $1 million gift to endow scholarships in literature and writing
March 18, 2008
NEW LONDON, Conn. - With a generous gift in honor of alumna Louise Rosenstiel Frank, Connecticut College has established a scholarship fund that will help needy students attend this highly selective liberal arts college and pursue majors in literature and writing.
The Louise Rosenstiel Frank Scholarship Fund has been endowed with a $1 million gift from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation. Cathy Frank Halstead, a member of the Connecticut College class of 1969 and daughter of Louise Rosenstiel Frank and Sidney E. Frank, said the scholarship underscores her parents´ belief in the value of liberal arts education and in helping to make it more accessible.
"Talented young writers and scholars were the people who brought excitement to my mother´s life," said Halstead. "She was immensely fulfilled by poetry, short stories and clever prose. She wrote for Sports Illustrated for a few years, but her real love was theater, and she supported her friend Jean Dalrymple at City Center all her life. "My mother was Valedictorian of her class at Connecticut College, and she and my father enthusiastically supported scholarships for minority students during their lifetimes. It´s a great pleasure for me to be able to do this in her honor."
The endowed scholarship fund will provide $50,000 in financial aid annually to students with demonstrated need who are majoring in literature and/ or writing. The scholarship funds will be available beginning with students who enroll in the college as members of the Class of 2012.
"We are grateful to Cathy Frank Halstead and the Sidney E. Frank Foundation for their generous support of Connecticut College students," said Connecticut College President Leo I. Higdon Jr. "As the college seeks to enhance diversity within our campus community - in terms of racial, cultural and socio-economical factors - gifts of this magnitude to support scholarships are increasingly important."
Louise Rosenstiel Frank graduated from Connecticut College in 1944 with a bachelor´s degree in literature. Sidney E. Frank was the founder of Sidney Frank Importing Co., creators of Grey Goose Vodka and importers of Jägermeister. Cathy Frank Halstead is chairman and president of Sidney Frank Importing Co., in New Rochelle, N.Y. She is trustee of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation. Louise Rosenstiel Frank and Sidney E. Frank were well-known philanthropists who supported education and other significant missions. Today, the Sidney E. Frank Foundation continues their important work.
About Connecticut College
Among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 41 states, the District of Columbia and 42 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 86-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.
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For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu