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Katie Weston
Foundation Merit Scholar
Simpson College
"I would sincerely like to thank you for the opportunity to be awarded this scholarship that will help me in my academic pursuits. I am preparing to start my second semester at Simpson College, and I am eagerly looking forward to this. I have decided to change my major to from accounting to psychology. I feel that his major is more appropriate for me and what I wish to do in the future after college. Thanks again."

History

UMHEF is indebted to Chancellor William Pearson Tolley, President of Syracuse University (1942-1969), for his vision of supporting church-related education. That vision that led him to provide the initial leadership that created the Foundation. During the Methodist General Conference Higher Education Banquet at the 1964 General Conference, he proposed a foundation to raise $50 - $100 million to provide scholarships for Methodist students attending Methodist institutions. His driving belief in the need to financially support Methodist-related institutions of higher education brought about not only the creation of the Foundation, but also the assembly of an outstanding group of influential individuals to lead it through its initial years.