Recognition of family creates Fouke Endowment Fund
Oct 1st, 2006 | By Tree House | Category: Recent NewsAn outstanding student in the Department of Politics annually may be considered to receive an award through The Harriet D. Fouke Endowment Fund. With a gift of $10,000, Harriet D. Fouke created the endowment in October 2000 to “host significant departmental events and to make awards to promising political science majors.” When awards are made from the fund, they are made in recognition of her brother, Dr. George L. Fouke, and his son, Louis Fouke, who died at age 18 when he was about to enter college. Harriet Fouke passed away soon after making the gift to St. Andrews.
George Fouke says his sister gave the gift partly because of their Quaker background and as a way to
recognize his years of service to St. Andrews. George Fouke taught in the St. Andrews Politics Department from 1969 until 1983, and was a close colleague of Dr. Neal Bushoven and Dr. Larry Schulz.
“I taught at the College for all those years in politics, and I also taught seniors in the interdisciplinary core program,” said George Fouke. “Although my sister had no connection to the College, she valued what I was doing there as a professor.”
Harriet Fouke created the endowment to recognize individual student accomplishment and strengthen the politics program overall.
“Only the most highly regarded political science students are recognized through the Fouke Endowment,” said Bushoven.
Kim Simon `03 and Mica Nguyen `05, two outstanding St. Andrews graduates, are the only two students to have received the award so far.
Kim Simon 2003 was the first to benefit directly from The Harriet D. Fouke Endowment Fund.
“Being one of the first recipients of the Fouke Award was quite an honor for me,” said Simon. “To be honored in this way was an end to a long road. Politics was not something that I was interested in when I first came to St. Andrews. Actually I had never given politics any real thought as a major. I took a course on a whim and that eventually led into a minor, a major, and a thesis on the politics of Cuba.”
“I truly feel that my politics classes gave me a solid foundation upon which to build my legal education. This past May, I graduated from law school and now I am working in a small firm in Providence, Rhode Island. I owe a lot of where I am today to my education at St. Andrews.”
Alumni politics majors, as well as other alumni and friends, are encouraged to add to the Fouke Endowment Fund so that Fouke Awards may be expanded.
General Honors Program students like those seen here during a class held in DeTamble Library are among the many St. Andrews attendees who receive financial assistance in the form of institutional scholarships.