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We offer five specific giving opportunities.<br />

Choose the area that you are most passionate about:<br />

Engage Education - STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) Programs<br />

Seek to Serve - Tennis<br />

Support Success - Center for Student Success<br />

Fund the Future - Endowed Scholarships<br />

Sustain Commitment - Annual Sustainability<br />

I will<br />

If you want to make an immediate impact, your gift can<br />

be directed to the 1968 Fund. This fund provides financial<br />

support for students who are encountering financial difficulties<br />

due to family emergencies, health issues, or accidents and is<br />

part of the “Sustain Commitment” option.<br />

the Campaign for<br />

Every gift makes a difference to individual students. Thank you<br />

for participating in MVNU’s life-changing work.<br />

To give, visit mvnu.edu/iwill<br />

A passion for education.<br />

A will to change the world.<br />

Dr. Richard “Dick” Jones, Professor of<br />

Chemistry at MVNC from 1972-1998, passed<br />

away on April 17, 2014.<br />

Kathryn (Lord ‘95) Coons passed away<br />

on July 31, 2015. After moving to Mount<br />

Vernon in 1986, Kathryn was involved with<br />

Concepts and Community Living and medical<br />

transcriptions. She was also a caretaker of<br />

Camp Sychar in Mount Vernon.<br />

Donald E. Boyd<br />

passed away on Oct.<br />

3, 2015. Don was a<br />

longtime art adjunct<br />

professor at MVNU.<br />

Chaplain Major Scott Alan Daniel (‘86),<br />

passed away on Nov. 16, 2015. Daniel served<br />

as an Army Chaplain in the Ohio National<br />

Guard and was an ordained minister for the<br />

Church of the<br />

Nazarene.<br />

He was<br />

commissioned<br />

into the U.S.<br />

Army Chaplain<br />

Corps and<br />

served as a<br />

battalion chaplain in numerous deployments<br />

to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and South Korea.<br />

Melissa<br />

“Missy”<br />

Renee<br />

Johnson<br />

passed away<br />

on Dec. 19,<br />

2015, from<br />

injuries in an automobile accident. Missy was<br />

an MVNU Class of 2016 nursing student.<br />

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<strong>NOW</strong> Spring 2016<br />

In Memoriam<br />

Please submit updates and photos for publication by email to<br />

alumni@mvnu.edu or online at grapevine.mvnu.edu.

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