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Who
gives to IUP?
 A retired
teacher, an art collector, a mushroom
farmer, and a regional bank ...what do they have in common?
They share a strong bond of generosity toward Indiana University of Pennsylvania. All have made a gift to the Foundation for IUP, ensuring that the heritage of academic excellence and broad opportunities for students will continue.
Virginia Deem Hadley
Robin Litton
Roger and Barbara Claypoole
National City Bank of Pennsylvania
Virginia Deem Hadley
"Ginny was so dedicated to her work and was a great ally of students," Betsy Adams says of her long-time colleague and business partner, Virginia Deem Hadley. "And she loved IUP!"
That dedication to IUP and higher education was demonstrated recently
by a bequest of more than $380,000 received from the estate of Deem-Hadley, who passed away in September 1999. Deem-Hadley received a bachelor's degree in Education from IUP in 1964, and a master's of arts in English in 1972. She taught
Journalism-Communications at Allegheny County Community College for 27 years prior to her retirement.
To continue her legacy of encouragement and student support, Deem-Hadley made provisions in her will to establish a scholarship at her alma mater. In the years to come, Virginia Ann Deem Memorial Scholarship will help financially needy students.
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Robin Litton
"I never started out to be a collector of art," the late Robin Litton said. "In 1957, I was a music major at IUP and was invited to the house of a favorite professor and his wife. While there, I was quite taken with some of the drawings that hung on their walls.” The art, it turned out, was done by the professor’s wife, and she soon introduced Litton to the works of several artists, including her favorite, Mary Cassatt.
Twenty years later, Litton found a Cassatt etching that he could afford. The etching became the first of what now is a substantial art collection of more than 400 pieces that will be given to
the University Museum at IUP by Litton and his long-time companion, Joseph Leon.
Much of the collection is of works by artists from the Woodstock colony in New York where Litton and Leon have lived since 1970. "I decided that I'd like to have a work by every Woodstock artist on my walls," Litton says. "I'm not an objective collector, and I don't collect based on speculation. It's about what and who I like."
The University Museum now has more than 200 pieces from
the Woodstock collection, which was
given by bequest from Robin Litton’s estate.
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Roger and Barbara Claypoole
Sisters Marion and Ruth Cox grew up in Indiana and attended Indiana State Teachers College. Marion graduated in 1935 and Ruth in 1939. They became teachers – Marion taught geography and English in the Uniontown School District in Fayette County while Ruth taught elementary education in the Armstrong County School District.
Ruth’s son, Roger Claypoole, president and chief executive officer of Creekside Farms in Butler, Pa., and his wife, Barbara, established two endowed scholarship funds at IUP to honor and recognize the dedication to education demonstrated by his mother and aunt.
The Ruth Cox Claypoole Scholarship will provide financial assistance to students from Indiana and Armstrong counties of Pennsylvania
who are majoring in elementary education. The Marion Cox Burchfield Scholarship will provide awards to students from Indiana and Fayette counties WHO HAVE declared majors of secondary education in geography or English.
“IUP played an important role in the lives of my mother and aunt, and we’re pleased to give something back to their alma mater and their hometown community,” said Claypoole. “We wanted to expand the educational opportunities for students from the areas where they distinguished themselves and teachers and where they continue to make their homes. ”
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National City Bank of Pennsylvania
National City Bank of Pennsylvania with corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been a true corporate partner and supporter of IUP for many years. National City Bank has evidenced this partnership through its support of IUP Athletics and the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology.
With the support of National City Bank, IUP established the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology Endowed Scholarship. This endowed scholarship has helped the university provide support for academically and financially deserving students from Western Pennsylvania. It also helps provide the resources necessary for IUP to continue to be a partner in the economic growth and revitalization of the Western Pennsylvania region.
“National City Bank is pleased to have the opportunity to partner with
IUP," says Kim Lyttle, National City Bank Vice President for Public Affairs. “We know that IUP is committed to its role as a Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania partner in progress and as such, shares our commitment to the growth and revitalization of the region,” continues Lyttle.
In confirming that comment, Robert Camp, dean of the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology comments, “The National City Bank Endowed Scholarship helps us continue to provide affordable excellence to the Western Pennsylvania region.”
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