Foundation Receives $25,000 Endowment

Lake Superior College has received $25,000 from the Hunt Family to set up an endowed scholarship for the LSC Foundation. The new Hunt Family Scholarship will provide an award for a full time student each academic year. In its first year, $10,000 will be awarded through the scholarship with $4,000 awarded annually in the following years.

“We are so appreciative of the Hunt family’s generosity,” said Dr. Kathleen Nelson, president of Lake Superior College. “It is a benchmark for our Foundation to offer a scholarship that provides a deserving student a fully paid education each year.”

“Some of our employees have children who thoroughly enjoyed the education they received at Lake Superior College. The college’s environmental efforts make it a good match for our family to support,” said Lynn Hunt when asked why they set up the endowed scholarship. “Our family believes in education but not in the debt that education creates for many people. We hope that this gift will allow students to be less debt ridden and freer to follow their path and they, in turn, can help others by passing it on.”

Based in Pine River, Minnesota, Lynn and Paul Hunt, owners of Hunt Utilities Group, LLC (HUG), are eco-minded philanthropic entrepreneurs exploring and developing systems that support ecological living. Check it out at www.hugllc.com.

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