Josephine Thompson
A scholarship gift from an alumnus' widow

The late Josephine Thompson of Boise affirmed her husband's connection to Oregon State by establishing the Glenn and Josephine Thompson Scholarship Fund with a bequest of $117,000.

Glenn Thompson and Josephine Smith were married in 1932. Glenn Thompson graduated from the School of Forestry in 1938 and immediately went to work for the Forest Service in Riggins, Idaho. He was transferred to McCall as district ranger on the Payette National Forest in 1941. He was promoted to forest supervisor on the Salmon National Forest in 1950, and became an assistant chief in the fire-control division at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1956. He died in 1978.

Josephine Thompson died last September. We never had the opportunity to meet her, but her bequest came as welcome support to a much-needed program at the College of Forestry. Thompson Scholarships will be awarded to Òdeserving students' who are undergraduates at the College of Forestry.

"We're grateful for the gift, and we're grateful that Mrs. Thompson made the criteria very broad, so that these scholarships could be targeted to those students who most need them," says Dean George Brown.