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