Newspaper Spotlights Edward Rector's Continuing Contribution to DePauw

September 22, 2008

September 22, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - Edward Rector "endowed the Rector Scholarship Foundation at DePauw University in Greencastle with more than $2 million in 1919, an endowment that still provides full scholarships to DePauw for 100 of the brightest graduates of Indiana high schools," notes today's edition of Indiana's Bedford Times-Mail. Rector's birthplace, which "was eventually converted into Dunn Memorial Hospital," is the newspaper's "Point of interest" for this date.

According to the item, a marker on the building at the corner of 23rd and Q streets in Bedford reads, "Birthplace of Edward Rector, Attorney (1863-1925). Lawrence County's greatest philanthropist, he endowed the Rector Scholarship Foundation at DePauw Univeristy with $2,250,000 in 1919. To date (1968) 5,100 awards have been made, 22 to Lawrence County natives. 'To youth of ability and courage in America, Edward Rector is a shining example.'"

You'll find it at the Times-Mail's Web site. (at right: Rector Hall)

The Rector Scholarship program was announced on April 30, 1919.

M. Lewis Gulick, a 1944 DePauw graduate who is himself a Rector Scholar, is working on a book, An Investment in Humanity: Edward Rector and His Historic Scholarship Program for DePauw University. Learn more in this previous story.

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