Private
Giving
Penn State Intercom......March
22, 2001
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"I've had the p
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leasure
of working for the University for four years in the Department of
Intercollegiate Athletics. With the support of many people within
our department, we've been able to improve our operations at the
Penn State Golf Courses. This has motivated me to take advantage
of payroll deduction and give back monthly to the department. The
opportunities provided to our student athletes are endless and the
best within the nation. I look forward to the opportunity of giving
even more as I continue my work at the golf courses." Administrative internship
receives endowment
Doctoral students in the higher education program will have more opportunities to gain on-the-job administrative experience at the University, thanks to an endowment recently created with a $130,000 gift from alumni Allan and Roberta Ostar.
Students who receive support from the Ostar Internship Endowment will serve as interns in the University's central administrative offices and participate in the functions of these offices as part of their learning experience. The internship will cover expenses associated with tuition, travel, research and other educational activities.
Allan W. Ostar is president emeritus of the American Association of Colleges and State Universities, a Washington, D.C.-based organization of about 400 public four-year institutions. He also is an adjunct professor in the University's higher education program. He graduated from Penn State in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and headed the AASCU from 1965 until his retirement in 1991.
Roberta Hutchison Ostar received her bachelor's degree in journalism. While at Penn State she was editor of La Vie and news editor of the The Daily Collegian. The Ostars met while working at The Daily Collegian.
Before joining the AASCU, Allan Ostar was director of the Office of Institutional Research in Washington, serving the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. He also was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Wisconsin and a member of many national education boards and commissions. Change magazine has named him one of the 44 most influential leaders in higher education.
In previous philanthropy to Penn State, the Ostars have endowed the Ostar-Hutchison Daily Collegian scholarship, and supported the College of Education and the University Libraries.
Couple establishes
$500,000 scholarship
Students at Penn State Erie will benefit from a $500,000 bequest that will create the W. Craig and Alice G. McClelland Leadership Scholarship. McClelland, a former chief executive officer of Hammermill Paper Co. (now International Paper) and a 1988 honorary alumnus of the college, along with his wife, made the gift through IP's Charitable Award Program for Education.
The McClellands' gift, to be made through their future estate, will assist undergraduates with financial need who demonstrate leadership abilities through their involvement in campus organizations and activities.
McClelland is the former chairman and CEO of Union Camp Corp. He now serves on the board of International Paper.
He and his wife, Alice, live in Saddle River, N.J.