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Rev. May 13, 2008

 

A friend of the ambitious and average alike

The University and its students lost a friend with the January passing of Green Bay philanthropist Betty Rose Meyer. “She dedicated herself to making this community and our University a better place,” commented Chancellor Bruce Shepard, “and she succeeded.” Celebrated locally for leading the campaign to refurbish what is now the Meyer Theatre, she was a longtime member of the Founders Association at UW-Green Bay and supported development of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts and the Kress Events Center on campus. She was perhaps most proud, however, of a 1997 donation of $400,000 that, at the time, was the University’s single largest scholarship gift. With a populist touch, Mrs. Meyer stipulated that the resulting financial awards go not to the “gifted and talented,” but rather to the “ambitious, dedicated, average students” who because of family finances would otherwise be unable to afford college.


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