Penn
State alumni Raymond and Shirley Galant have contributed $250,000 to the College
of Communications to create the Raymond and Shirley (Gable) Galant Communications
Scholarship. PRIVATE GIVING
Alumni donate $250,000
to College of Communications
Penn
State alumni Raymond and Shirley Galant have contributed $250,000 to the College
of Communications to create the Raymond and Shirley (Gable) Galant Communications
Scholarship.
The annual scholarship will recognize outstanding students enrolled or planning to enroll in a communications major, with preference given to students from Mahanoy City, Pottsville or other towns in Schuylkill County. The Galants' gift will include an additional $75,000 in matching funds from the Times Mirror Foundation, making the total endowment $325,000.
Penn State invests endowed gifts using a portion of the income to support the scholarship and returning the remaining income to the principal to ensure its growth, protect it from inflation and allow it to exist in perpetuity.
Raymond Galant is from Mahanoy City, where as a teen-ager he worked as a sports reporter for the Record American.
After graduating from Penn State in 1952 with a degree in journalism, he joined the Army and was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va., where he became editor of the Fort Belvoir Castle during the Korean War. After his military service, he joined the Veterans' Edition of the Army Times, becoming managing editor in 1957.
He was public relations director for the American Waterways Operators, the trade association of the barge and towboat industry, before becoming associate editor of F-D-C Reports, a trade magazine for the pharmaceutical industry. In 1961, he joined Food Chemical News Inc. as managing editor of one of the company's six publications covering regulatory affairs involving the food and chemical industries. He went on to become vice president of the company, which was purchased by Times Mirror Inc. in 1992. He retired in 1994.
Shirley Galant, who grew up in Pottsville and graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism in 1953, began her career in the advertising department of the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. She went on to work as an editor with the National Business Education Association in Reston, Va., and served 21 years as subscription manager for Food Chemical News. She and Raymond Galant have three children.
During their years in northern Virginia, the Galants were active members of various community and professional organizations.