Southeastern Louisiana University

Southeastern established scholarship for LaVanner Brown

Contact: Christina Chapple

3/10/06

LAVANNER S. BROWN MEMORIAL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP – Her colleagues at Southeastern Louisiana University have established a memorial endowed scholarship in memory of LaVanner S. Brown, executive director of the university’s TRIO/GEAR UP programs. The LaVanner S. Brown Memorial Endowed Scholarship will provide financial support to a deserving TRIO/GEAR UP student at Southeastern. The scholarship recognizes Brown’s important role in helping to prepare young people – many of them first-generation college students – for the challenges of both life and higher education. It was established by Barbara Allen, dean of the College of General Studies, and the directors, faculty and staff of the TRIO/GEAR UP programs, which Brown directed from 1999 until her death in September 2005. From left are, front, June Taylor, director of Student Support Services; Patricia Mabry, director of GEAR UP; Dean Barbara Allen; Mary Hollister, director of Special Development Activities and Major Gifts for the Southeastern Development Foundation; back, Ron Abel, director of Upward Bound and Math Science Upward Bound; Elmer Stewart, director of Talent Search; Carl Higginbotham, TRIO/GEAR UP technology and assessment coordinator; and Kimberly Caruso, director of the Educational Opportunity Center and Veterans Upward Bound.