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For immediate release: Oct. 3, 2006
Hunt Family Funds Full Time Scholarship at Lake Superior College; Foundation Receives $25,000 Endowment
(Duluth, Minn.) -- Lake Superior College (LSC) 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 Paul and Lynn Hunt also founded Happy Dancing Turtle, a new operating non-profit that will focus on sustainable living education and research. The web site is www.happydancingturtle.org
Lynn and daughter Raya Newbold are creating Round Belly Clothing, an organic clothing manufacturing company, www.roundbelly.com, while son Ryan Hunt is a partner at Green Range Renewable Energy, a bio-diesel micro brewery that uses restaurant oils to run vehicles and heat houses. The web site is www.greenrangeenregy.com
The mission of the Lake Superior College Foundation is to support the educational, cultural, and service goals of Lake Superior College by acting as its designated friend and fund-raiser. For more information on the Hunt Family Scholarship and other LSC scholarships, please check: www.lsc.edu/Foundation/index.cfm
LSC is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. With more than 3,800 students enrolled this fall semester, LSC is Northeastern Minnesota's largest two-year college. LSC provides a wide range of programs and services, including liberal arts and science courses for transfer, technical programs intended to provide occupational skills, continuing education, and customized training for business and industry. LSC is also the leader in Internet-delivered courses and programs in Minnesota.
