Elizabethtown Receives $1 Million to Provide Scholarships

The Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation awarded Elizabethtown College a $1 million grant to create the Stabler Scholarship Fund, significantly increasing the College’s commitment to student scholarship aid.

Beginning in the 2009–2010 academic year, Stabler Scholarships will be awarded to Elizabethtown students who exhibit “…the character, motivation and achievements of candidates who give indication of their eagerness for a college education, do not expect a free education, and recognize the virtues of working for what they receive.”

Stabler Scholarship recipients will be encouraged to repay the scholarships in the years after they graduate in order to make even more scholarships available to future Elizabethtown College students. Characterized as a “debt of conscience” by the Stabler Foundation, the scholarships are consistent with the Stablers’ view of philanthropy.