WVU College of Drugs receives $100k scholarship present

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — College students from the Mountain State incomes a medical diploma from the West Virginia College College of Drugs can profit from a $100,000 scholarship present courtesy of alumni, in accordance with a launch.

The Dr. and Mrs. John C. Wright Jr. Household Scholarship was established by the household of the identical title as a means of rewarding full-time medical college students with monetary want. The primary choice will go to college students from Tyler, Wetzel, Doddridge, Pleasants and Wooden counties.

The donation was made by way of the WVU Basis, which is tasked with receiving and distributing non-public donations on behalf of West Virginia College.

“We’re so grateful for this scholarship offered by Dr. and Mrs. Wright,” Dr. Norman Ferrari III, chief educational officer for medical training, vice dean for training and educational affairs on the College of Drugs and chair of the Division of Medical Training, mentioned. “That is so vital to our college students who’re balancing the pains of the curriculum and worrying about mounting debt. This can present them some aid.”

Dr. Wright is a local of Sistersville and at the moment works as an obstetrician-gynecologist in East Liverpool, Ohio. He earned his undergraduate diploma from Denison College earlier than attending WVU on a scholarship through the U.S. Air Pressure ROTC. He accomplished his residency at Wright-Patterson Air Pressure Base and finally settled down together with his spouse close to her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Wright established the scholarship after his father handed away. He mentioned that his mother and father had been beneficiant individuals who had been dedicated to the neighborhood of Sistersville and that he hopes to make a optimistic influence on the neighborhood of their honor.

“I’m hoping to commit these monies to younger individuals from my neck of the woods in West Virginia,” Wright mentioned. “I would like this to be centered on people who really want it, who will not be essentially from physician’s households however are younger individuals who’ve made it on their very own. If it will assist them have much less debt and it will additionally maybe assist them keep in West Virginia, then I really feel like that may be one thing I’ve achieved for the state and its individuals.”

Wright hopes that his present to the college will encourage different College of Drugs alumni to do the identical, significantly his personal classmates from the category of 1978 as this yr marks the forty fifth anniversary of their commencement. Alumni taken with donating can go to give.wvu.edu/drugs or contact Patricia Lonsbary at 304-293-1448.