Private Giving
Penn State Intercom......March 27, 2003

Broadhursts endow $100,000
Trustee Scholarship at Penn State McKeesport

Eat 'n Park isn't the only place for smiles in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Thanks to a $100,000 pledge for a scholarship endowment from Suzy and Jim Broadhurst, primary owners of Eat 'n Park and its subsidiaries, people at Penn State McKeesport are smiling, too.

This is the first Trustee Scholarship at Penn State Mc-Keesport, and one of the first to be established University-wide. The Trustee Scholarship program was launched last fall by the Board of Trustees to stimulate the creation of undergraduate scholarships. The aid will be directed to students with the greatest financial need.

What makes a Trustee Scholarship unique from other scholarship endowments is that the Board of Trustees has created a matching fund that will make 5 percent of the pledged amount available for spending very soon after confirmation of the pledge and guidelines. In this case, the University's $5,000 match will be combined with available spending from the Broadhurst Trustee Scholarship. These funds are immediately available to the Penn State Mc-Keesport Scholarship Committee, the group that selects the recipients.

The headquarters of Eat 'n Park, one of Pittsburgh's leading companies, is located in The Waterfront, a new development that spans the Mon Valley communities of Munhall, Homestead and West Homestead on a site that once was home to steel mills. The Waterfront's close proximity to the campus is a draw for students and visitors who access the restaurants, businesses, shops and entertainment venues.

Jim S. Broadhurst, a 1965 graduate of Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts, is chairman and CEO of Eat 'n Park Hospitality Group. He chairs the University's Grand Destiny campaign and serves on the Board of Trustees.

Suzy Williams Broadhurst is a native of the Mon Valley community of Monessen. She graduated from the Penn State College of Education in 1966 in elementary education. She manages the Eat 'n Park corporate giving department, which supports communities in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

In addition to her corporate leadership role, she is active in many community groups.

The Broadhursts' gift is helping the campus meet its goal to provide more scholarship aid for deserving students. Since Penn State McKeesport's Capital Campaign began in 1996, the campus has raised more than $4 million, including $600,000 for scholarship endowments.

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