Pictured above: John Haddock, Recreation and Leisure Studies Founders Scholarship donor and President, University of Waterloo Alumni Council; James Rush, Dean of Applied Health Sciences and Troy Glover, Chair of Recreation and Leisure Studies
One of the ways Waterloo continues to attract top students is by offering an array of scholarships and awards, many funded by our generous alumni.
For some time, we’ve been raising funds for a new award honouring the founders of our Recreation and Leisure Studies (RLS) program: Jack Pearse, Chuck Griffith and David Ng. These gentlemen transformed Waterloo in the late 1960s, building the foundation for what is now recognized as the highest-ranking leisure studies department in North America.
This fall we’re thrilled to announce the award is fully subscribed, thanks to the help of many generous alumni, some of whom have pledged important ongoing monthly gifts. The fund supporting this scholarship now sits at $40,000, the threshold for an endowed award that can now help a deserving RLS student every year, in perpetuity.
We can think of no more suitable way to honour RLS’s founding fathers. Thank you to all who contributed.
Your gifts are needed to help other deserving students
To make a gift to support any of our scholarship funds, please email Wanda K. Deschamps or call 519-888-4567, ext. 38427. Thank you!
