Pennies Make Change
Published on November 30, 2015“I feel very strongly about education and I am happy to be able to help someone get an education that would not go to college without aid,” the late Louise Blackman wrote in a 1987 letter to UNC.
“I feel very strongly about education and I am happy to be able to help someone get an education that would not go to college without aid,” the late Louise Blackman wrote in a 1987 letter to UNC.
“I feel very strongly about education and I am happy to be able to help someone get an education that would not go to college without aid,” the late Louise Blackman wrote in a 1987 letter to UNC. “While I am alive, I want to have the joy of knowing I am helping some young person.”
Louise Beckwith Blackman grew up on her family’s tobacco farm just outside of Apex, N.C. She always wanted to go to college…specifically to Carolina. But the country was just emerging from the Great Depression at that time, and her family couldn’t afford to send her. Since she had been unable to realize her own college dreams, she wanted to see to it that future generations, women especially, could realize theirs. The result is the UNC Office of Scholarships and Student Aid’s Louise B. Blackman Scholarship.
