Bellmon Endowment provides scholarships

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June 26, 2009

Anonymous The Stillwater News Press Fri Jun 26, 2009, 10:55 AM CDT

Former governor and U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon changed the face of scholar development at Oklahoma State University. Today his legacy lives on through the Henry Bellmon Endowment, a fund that will provide scholarships and support scholar development and research at OSU.

The farmer from Billings graduated from OSU in 1942 before serving his country, earning a Silver Star in World War II and later his state in two terms as governor.

Bellmon also served on the Truman Scholar selection committee and returned to his alma mater nearly 15 years ago to investigate why the University was not producing more qualified students.

His visit prompted OSU to create a scholar development office, which became a model nationally. His suggestions led to an OSU student winning a Truman Scholarship the next year. That was the first of 11 in the next 15 years for the University that was designated a Truman Honor School in 2000, becoming the first college so recognized in the state, for outstanding results in undergraduate scholarship and leadership.

Today OSU is well known nationally not only for Truman Scholars but for many others, including numerous Goldwaters and the school’s first Rhodes, Gates, Mitchell, Jack Kent Cooke, Pickering, Udall and Oxford Clarendon awards – more than 50 in all since Bellmon’s initial involvement. These results illustrate how OSU Scholar Development programming, combined with OSU’s Honors College faculty, can inspire students to achieve greatness.

The Bellmon Endowment was created about a year ago with gifts from Bellmon; Louis Blair, former executive secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation; and OSU graduate Bryan Begley, a 1994 Truman Scholar and Rhodes Scholar nominee.

This fund will make more enrichment opportunities available to many students by providing funding for scholarships, Scholar Development support and undergraduate research.

For more information about the Bellmon Endowment, contact George Wendt at gwendt@osugiving.com or 744-3787.

Article provided by Jacob Longan, Oklahoma State University Foundation.

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