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Goal Reached<br />
for Piper Lab<br />
Fundraising Initiative<br />
The <strong>University</strong><br />
is pleased to<br />
announce the<br />
successful completion<br />
of the $100,000<br />
Fontaine C. Piper<br />
Movement<br />
Analysis<br />
Laboratory<br />
campaign for the Fontaine C. Piper Movement<br />
Analysis Laboratory. The three-year-long<br />
fundraising initiative began in July 2006 and<br />
concluded at the end of June 2009. Support for<br />
the fundraising effort included donations from<br />
alumni and friends of the <strong>University</strong>, a $10,000<br />
challenge grant from the Kerr Foundation of<br />
Oklahoma, a portion of an estate plan, and<br />
numerous other donations made to the<br />
Department of Health and Exercise Sciences.<br />
The funds will be used to outfit the Piper<br />
Movement Analysis Lab,<br />
named in honor of Fontaine<br />
Piper (’70, ’78). Piper devoted<br />
34 years of service to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> before retiring in<br />
2005 as dean of the Division<br />
of Human Potential and<br />
Performance. He continues to<br />
teach an online medical<br />
terminology course at<br />
<strong>Truman</strong>.<br />
The Piper Movement Analysis Lab will<br />
provide state-of-the-art three dimensional<br />
Fontaine Piper<br />
(’70, ’78)<br />
motion analysis technology to help ensure that<br />
students are prepared in the human movement<br />
sciences and prepare them for advanced study in<br />
important public health domains such as<br />
Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and child obesity.<br />
Anonymous Scholarship<br />
Renamed to Recognize Donors<br />
For years, students have been receiving scholarship awards from a fund<br />
known only as the Anonymously Endowed Scholarship. When Henry<br />
Roberts (’39) and Harriett (Sensenich) Roberts (’43) established the<br />
scholarship nearly a quarter of a century ago, they asked to remain unnamed<br />
until after their deaths. Harriett passed away in 1996, and when Henry died<br />
in 2009, the scholarship was renamed the Henry and Harriett (Sensenich)<br />
Roberts Scholarship in honor of the scholarship’s benefactors who met as<br />
students at <strong>Truman</strong> back when the school was named Northeast Missouri<br />
<strong>State</strong> Teachers College.<br />
Henry was one of three brothers who all served in World War II. Willard<br />
Wayne was lost in a plane crash over the Pacific, Ray served as a Naval officer<br />
in the Pacific, and Henry served as a tank commander in Europe. Ray was the<br />
only brother left unscathed by the war. Henry, who was injured four times,<br />
was mistakenly pronounced dead the first time.<br />
Each of the three brothers attended the <strong>University</strong> with the help of<br />
scholarships. Henry worked in a private residence for room, board, and<br />
laundry and also tutored and did odd jobs to work his way through college.<br />
Henry’s wife, Harriett, taught in elementary schools during the winter and<br />
attended school during the short term and summer term.<br />
Before World War II, Henry taught high school science and mathematics,<br />
and following the war, he stayed in the Army until after the Korean War. He<br />
then worked briefly for the railroad before teaching science and mathematics<br />
at Wentworth Military Academy for one year. In 1952, he returned to school<br />
to earn a master’s degree in chemistry, and he then accepted a job as a<br />
chemist with Owens-Corning Fiberglass in Newark, Ohio. In 1959, Henry<br />
was promoted and transferred to their plant in Anderson, S.C., and he<br />
retired in 1978.<br />
The Henry and Harriett (Sensenich) Roberts Scholarship will be awarded<br />
in their honor in perpetuity.<br />
Matching Gifts<br />
Many employers sponsor matching gift<br />
programs and will match any charitable contributions<br />
made by their employees. To find out if<br />
your company has a matching gift policy, go to<br />
http://www.matchinggifts.com/truman/.<br />
Make a gift to <strong>Truman</strong> online at<br />
http://giving.truman.edu/.<br />
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