This process in Eastern Nazarene College’s case is guided by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. ENC established formal teach-out partnerships with five schools along with a secondary list of approximately 30 more schools that were offering help…
The ENC Fund, our annual fund, is considered unrestricted and directly benefits our students and the student experience. Since the beginning of fiscal year 2009, all gifts to the ENC Fund have gone to support scholarships for new and returning students.
This fund is unrestricted and offsets unexpected needs of the College and day-to-day operations. Funds will be expended after careful consideration is given to the priority needs of the College.
Endowments are established with the intent the principal plus earnings will be used to calculate the amount available to utilize each year. There are many different kinds of endowments, including scholarships, lecture series, professorships, and endowed chairs. The principal (donated) amount for each endowment is utilized to determine and allocate growth according to policies established by ENC’s Foundation Board and Board of Trustees. In order to make the available amount sufficient for use each year, ENC has a minimum endowment level which can be achieved over five years. In years where monies are contributed to the endowed fund, the amount available for use each year increases proportionately. Please see Endowment Information for a complete description of endowments at ENC including how they are established and funded. If you are interested in establishing an endowed scholarship, please complete the Scholarship Worksheet and return it to the Development Office.
The vision of the Every Class A Scholarship initiative (ECAS) is to encourage every class, past and present, to provide ENC with an endowed scholarship as their class gift. Typically, the traditional gifts of the past, while useful and deeply appreciated, have not always stood the test of time. An endowment becomes a lasting legacy, which gives and grows for decades to come. Launched at the 2002 Homecoming Celebration, ECAS continues to thrive as an increasing number of alumni catch the vision of investing in their class fund. In 2018, through the works and gifts of engaged alumni, it was announced that the class scholarships for every graduating class are now fully endowed. Efforts continue to increase the size of each endowed class scholarship, which will in turn impact more students who choose ENC. Today the ECAS initiative is over $2,000,000 in total value!
Gifts to the Annually Funded Scholarships are established with the intent their principal (donated amount) is awarded annually to students who meet certain criteria. ENC’s Scholarship Award Committee determines eligible candidates based upon stated criteria. When the scholarship is established, it is with the commitment of the donor to fund the scholarship each year. The annual scholarship amount is predetermined by the donor and agreed to by ENC. The total of all gifts made by April 15 is used to fund the scholarship the following academic year. Please email the Office of Advancement & External Relations for more information.
Making a gift in honor or memory of a loved one is a great way to honor their legacy and make a lasting impact. These gifts can be made in lieu of flowers or gifts for occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, or funerals. Memorial and honor gifts will be directed to the corresponding family scholarship (if one is established). All other memorial and honor gifts will be designated to the ENC Fund unless otherwise specified.
When making a memorial or honor gift, please specify the desired fund either in the memo line of your check. If you give online, please select “Other” in the designation section and use the “Additional comments” to provide the tribute information. If you would like ENC to send acknowledgment to the individual or family, please provide their full name and address with your gift. Note: we do not include gift amounts when notifying the individual or family unless specifically instructed to do so.
“There is no conflict between the best in education and the best in our Christian faith.” -Dean Bertha Munro
The Munro Society is a distinguished society, which recognizes the significant support for students through endowments at Eastern Nazarene College. The philanthropic spirit of the Munro Society members fosters the establishment and growth of endowments, which support Christian higher education, and the students Eastern Nazarene College was founded to serve.
Established in 1994, the Munro Society was named for Dean Bertha Munro – a woman permanently embedded in the campus and collective memories of the ENC community. Dean Munro gave of herself in many ways, serving in just about every capacity except the presidency of Eastern Nazarene College. She was brilliant, scholarly, dignified, compassionate, wise, gentle, and faithful to her God and His mission for her life. As Dean Munro often said, “There is no conflict between the best in education and the best in our Christian faith.”
Many members attend the Munro Society annual brunch on the day of Commencement where they are given the opportunity to welcome new members, as well as hear students share how endowed scholarships impact their lives.
There is but one requirement to become a member of the Munro Society: endow or manage an endowed scholarship. To establish an endowed scholarship, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at (617) 745-3730.
Ruth Ann (Stetson ’65) Ayers and Merritt Mann (’59)
More than 60 years ago, Dr. Charles Akers (’47), advisor to the Class of 1957, recommended that the seniors take the $500 they had set aside for their class gift and put it into an investment account where it would accumulate value for 10 years. After that time, the interest each year could be given as a scholarship. This idea took hold among the seniors, and adopting his recommendation, they established the first class endowed scholarship at ENC.
For many years afterwards, no one really gave further thought to the wise counsel of Dr. Akers. Class after class graduated, giving traditional remembrances to ENC in honor of their commencement—trees, bulletin boards, flagpoles, gates, decorative lighting, clocks, benches—all of which were useful and deeply appreciated. Very few stood the test of time. In fact, if asked, many alumni might not even remember what their class gave to ENC!
Then in the 1990s, a subtle stirring in the hearts and minds of alumni began to take place. Encouraged by Dr. Tom Barnard, Vice President of Advancement at the time, a handful of leaders challenged their classes to provide a more lasting legacy. By giving sacrificially and by taking advantage of corporate matching funds when available, the classes of 1944, 1959, 1964, 1965, and 1968 initiated work on class endowments. At last, that tiny seed of an idea from the Class of 1957 began to take root.
Then in 1999, just as ENC was preparing for her Centennial Celebration, a singular event propelled the concept of class scholarships to the next level. Not since that gift in 1957 had a graduating class donated a monetary gift towards a class endowment. That history was about to change!
The place: Ninety-Nine Restaurant in Quincy. The time: March of 1999. The cast of characters: two seniors from the Class of 1999 and an alumni couple, parents of one of the seniors. The conversation: “Would the Class of 1999 consider an endowed scholarship as their parting gift to their Alma Mater?” With a promise of matching funds and a letter to all the parents inviting them to financially support this step of faith, the seniors accepted the challenge, and the growth of class scholarships took a giant step forward. Every senior class since that time has been invited to take that same step.
Now, what about those decades of classes that did not have a scholarship endowment to nurture and grow? The answer was not long in coming. As the Centennial Celebration, plans were developing; a few on the committee belonged to classes that had already begun working on an endowment. They thought, “Why not invite every class to gift ENC with an endowment as part of the celebration?” Though the idea did not take root in time for the centennial, the concept continued to press upon their hearts. In early 2002, an initiative entitled Every Class a Scholarship (ECAS) was presented to the Alumni Council as a grassroots effort designed to motivate every class to establish a scholarship fund. During Homecoming of that same year, a group of committed alumni launched ECAS by visiting each of the ten reunion classes, challenging them to begin growing their own scholarship endowments.
Now in 2018, just sixteen years after the launching of ECAS, with the help of financial support from the Alumni Council, faithful alumni leadership, many class champions, and generous silent partners, every class now has an endowed scholarship!
Because the mission of ENC is alive and well.
Because young people still dream of attending ENC, where they hope to find God’s purpose for their lives.
Because those students depend on scholarships to make that dream come true.
Because these funds are an opportunity for alumni to share our conviction that the ENC experience is worth passing on to future generations.
Because since the launching of the initiative in 2002, when the value of all six existing class scholarship totaled $92,000, the current value of all funds has grown to $1,878,679.40!
The history of ECAS is still being written. Classes continue to grow their endowments, and the possibilities are limitless. As for the Class of 1957, they are now supporting two scholarships with a combined value of over $165,000. And every graduate that continues to give to a class fund is helping to write another chapter in this story!
Endowments are established with the intent that their principal plus earnings will be used to calculate the amount available to utilize each year. There are many different kinds of endowments including scholarships, lecture series, professorships, and endowed chairs. The principal (donated) amount for each endowment is utilized to determine and allocate growth according to policies established by ENC’s Foundation Board and Board of Trustees. In order to make the available amount sufficient for use each year, ENC has a minimum endowment level that can be achieved over five years. In years where monies are contributed to the endowed fund, the amount available for use each year goes up proportionately.
If interested in establishing and funding an endowed scholarship at ENC, please download our Endowment Information Packet and return a completed Scholarship Worksheet to the Development Office.
The vision of the Every Class A Scholarship initiative (ECAS) is to encourage every class, past and present, to provide ENC with an endowed scholarship as their class gift. An endowment becomes a lasting legacy, which gives and grows for decades to come. Where does your class stand?
Annually Funded Scholarships are established with the intent that their principal (donated amount) is awarded annually to students who meet certain criteria. ENC’s Scholarship Award Committee will determine eligible candidates based upon the stated criteria. When the scholarship is established, it is with the commitment of the donor to fund the scholarship each year. The annual scholarship amount is predetermined by the donor and agreed to by ENC. The total of all gifts made by April 15 is used to fund the scholarship in the following academic year.
A. L. Parrott Memorial ScholarshipA.S.S.I.S.T. ScholarshipAbbie-Jean Delp Memorial ScholarshipAdult Studies Leadership ScholarshipAl and Esther Truesdale Family ScholarshipAlice Spangenberg Memorial ScholarshipAllan & Fern Pfautz ScholarshipAllison McInturff ScholarshipAlumni Association Merritt Mann Leadership ScholarshipAlverda Kinney Memorial Scholarship for Elementary EducationAlvin & Alice Kauffman ScholarshipAndree Family Heritage ScholarshipAndrew & Mary Rankin ScholarshipAnnie & Stanley Sylvaria ScholarshipAnnie W. Stilson ScholarshipAnthony V. & Marilyn E. Oddo ScholarshipArthur and Julia Penha Memorial ScholarshipAudrey Ward ScholarshipAyres Family Alumni Scholarship
Barbara Brigham Howard Memorial ScholarshipBen Rieder Memorial ScholarshipBernard Musembi Memorial ScholarshipBetty Blanchard Rice AwardBetty Davidson Memorial ScholarshipBeverly B. Hybertson ScholarshipBiscoe Family Scholarship: J. Dwight & Ida M. & Dr. Joseph D. Biscoe Jr. & Phyllis BiscoeBob and Shirley Hooper ScholarshipBob Cubie Scholarship for Journalism & WritingBollinger ScholarshipBrickley ScholarshipBudd & Marion Jones ScholarshipBudd L. Rice Memorial ScholarshipBusiness Adminstration Scholarship
Calhoun-Gardner Families ScholarshipCarl & Marion Phillips Crouthamel Memorial ScholarshipCarroll and Doris Bradley ScholarshipCedric & Mildred Kitchen Memorial ScholarshipChapman Family ScholarshipCharles E. Allen ScholarshipCharles Todd Caldwell Memorial ScholarshipCHOICE ScholarshipClass of 1964 Scholarship/Margaret E. Bowen Memorial
Class of 1980/J. Philip McLaren Scholarship
Class of 2016 Scholarship/Cydney Fields Memorial
Clingerman Scholarship
Community Chapel ScholarshipConstantine Science ScholarshipCorrine & Stanley Ross ScholarshipCove/Marple Piano ScholarshipCraig & Grace Moulton Scholarship
Dale F. Parry Family ScholarshipDan Gresham Memorial Travel ScholarshipDavid & Linda McClung ScholarshipDavid Carlett Memorial ScholarshipDean & Phyllis Dancy Boshart ScholarshipDelbert & Orpha Hill ScholarshipDerrell & Ruth Cornell ScholarshipDonald L. Young ScholarshipDonna C. Webb Grosse ScholarshipDr. Albert Hill History ScholarshipDr. Cecil R. Paul Memorial ScholarshipDr. Cynthia R. Sainsbury ScholarshipDr. Earl C. Wolf ScholarshipDr. Eugene Dixon & Marilyn Brown Iden ScholarshipDr. Frank W. & Theona Fry Gery Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Harold & Marie Brake ScholarshipDr. Harold A. Parry Memorial ScholarshipDr. Harvey J. S. Blaney ScholarshipDr. Jose Rodriguez ScholarshipDr. Larry D. Hybertson ScholarshipDr. Nancy Detwiler ScholarshipDr. R. Wayne & Elizabeth Young Gardner ScholarshipDrs. Floyd and Martha John ScholarshipDrs. Ruth A. & James R. Cameron Scholarship
E. Boyd and Florence L. Gardner Endowed ScholarshipEastern Region NYI ScholarshipEdward S. & Cora Mann Alumni Book ScholarshipEdwin A. Patmore Memorial ScholarshipElery & Elura Harris ScholarshipElmer & Henrietta Kauffman Memorial ScholarshipElva Reed ScholarshipEmma Stephey Russell Memorial ScholarshipENC Achieve ScholarshipENC Grounds Department ScholarshipENC Women’s Organization ScholarshipErnest E. Grosse Memorial ScholarshipEsther Mosher Blaney Music ScholarshipEsther Nichols Scholarship
Esther Williamson Memorial Scholarship
Fitzgerald/Henck ScholarshipFloyd & Madeline Nease ScholarshipFrancis Daniel Ketner Sr Memorial ScholarshipFred & Bev Cawthorne Honorary Service Scholarship
G. Allen Johnson ScholarshipGeorge and Jane Whetstone ScholarshipGorton-Williams Music ScholarshipGrace & Nelson Bowles Memorial ScholarshipGrace Gleason White ScholarshipGrace Murphy Memorial ScholarshipGrant Cross Memorial ScholarshipGregory & Laura Kottis ScholarshipGressett Family ScholarshipGrimshaw Gudewicz Endowed ScholarshipGwendolyn E. Mann Scholarship
H. Blair & Edwinna Wilson Ward ScholarshipHarding-Young ScholarshipHarmon Family ScholarshipHarold S. Mills ScholarshipHarry and Alice Boud ScholarshipHazel & Howard Wertman ScholarshipHelen Vyroda Daley ScholarshipHelping Hands Medical ScholarshipHelping Hands ScholarshipHenry & Hazel Heckert ScholarshipHenry R. Johnson ScholarshipHerrschaft ScholarshipHigginson-Shea ScholarshipHoward E. Chambers Scholarship
Ida E Henderson Memorial ScholarshipInto All The World ScholarshipIrene A. Montgomery Scholarship
J. Martin Sainsbury ScholarshipJack Giberson ScholarshipJames L. & Vivian M. Wooster Memorial ScholarshipJanice E. Hill ScholarshipJay & Margaret Bergers ScholarshipJean M. Driscoll ScholarshipJeremy Griffin ScholarshipJK Guevara Family ScholarshipJohn & Ann Mucci ScholarshipJohn and Marjorie Bryner Family Scholarship
John and Rachel Parry ScholarshipJohn and Virginia Newburg ScholarshipJohn Dalton Memorial ScholarshipJohn Dillman/Rufus Sullivan Memorial ScholarshipJohn Warren Memorial ScholarshipJonathan Dixon Memorial ScholarshipJoseph E. Goulart Business Leadership ScholarshipJoseph J. Britt Memorial ScholarshipJoyce E. Young ScholarshipJuan Lara Memorial Scholarship
K. Baker Biology ScholarshipKathryn Louisa Quinn ScholarshipKathryn Savage ScholarshipKeller Family Ministry ScholarshipKenneth L. and Patricia A. Mills ScholarshipKenneth Pearsall Family ScholarshipKorean Nazarene University Graduate Student Scholarship
L.D. Peavey Memorial ScholarshipLadue ScholarshipLaura Anne Katcharian ScholarshipLaurel and Monty Jones ScholarshipLawrence E. Humrich Memorial ScholarshipLawson Saunders ScholarshipLegacy ScholarshipLillia Babbit Hyde ScholarshipLinda S. Markola Memorial ScholarshipLinda Whitling Memorial ScholarshipLois I. Knox Memorial ScholarshipLouise and Lorraine Boch ScholarshipLouise Dygoski Memorial ScholarshipLowell & Dorla Hall ScholarshipLynettee Whittington Heppe Memorial Scholarship
Mann & Shrader Memorial ScholarshipMarion E. Turkington Ministry FundMarion E. Turkington ScholarshipMarion E. Turkington Senior ScholarshipMarion Janes ScholarshipMary E. Jones Memorial ScholarshipMary E. Spangenberg Memorial ScholarshipMary Runnells ScholarshipMatilda E. Casler ScholarshipMatthew 6:33 ScholarshipMcClung Family ScholarshipMcCurdy & Palella Memorial ScholarshipMcCurdy Family ScholarshipMervin D. & Helen R. Crouthamel ScholarshipMichael Haynes ScholarshipMichael J. & Taraneh Woodruff ScholarshipMichelle Alworth Memorial ScholarshipMid-Atlantic District ScholarshipMinisterial ScholarshipMinisterial ScholarshipMyron & Peggy Ladue Scholarship
Nielson Pastoral Ministry AwardNorma Bell Scholarship
Patricia A. Murphy Memorial ScholarshipPaul Andrews ScholarshipPaul E. Pepper Memorial ScholarshipPaul Rice ScholarshipPaul Williams Endowed ScholarshipPearl R. Miller Memorial ScholarshipPhelma Shaffer O’Connell Memorial ScholarshipPhi Delta Lambda Honor Society ScholarshipPhiladelphia District ScholarshipPhysics & Engineering AssistantshipPhysics Department ScholarshipPittsburgh District NYI ScholarshipPrince of Peace Scholarship
Pritchard Family ScholarshipProf. J.R. Naylor ScholarshipProfs. Lois & James Knox Scholarship
Quentin C. Caswell Scholarship
R. Wesley Blachly ScholarshipRalph D. & Doris V. Dunlop ScholarshipRalph N. Henck Memorial ScholarshipRaymond W Cunningham ScholarshipRestrick Family ScholarshipReuben A & Lizzie Grossman ScholarshipRev. Alexander Ardrey ScholarshipRev. Almer F. & Mildred B. Gallup Memorial ScholarshipRev. Blair & Vera McKim ScholarshipRev. David & Rogena Thomas ScholarshipRev. Della Boggs Memorial ScholarshipRev. Ernest E. Angell Memorial ScholarshipRev. Henry Cooper ScholarshipRev. Jack E. Holcomb Memorial ScholarshipRev. James M. Cubie Memorial ScholarshipRev. Jay W. Patton Memorial ScholarshipRev. John H. Dias ScholarshipRev. John T. & Ella S. Maybury ScholarshipRev. John Z. Andree Memorial ScholarshipRev. Kenneth E. & Helen R. Sullivan ScholarshipRev. Leslie & Marion MacKay ScholarshipRev. Vincent James Aliotta Endowed ScholarshipRichard R. & Deborah Reese Family ScholarshipRobert J. Howard Music ScholarshipRobert W. Crew Memorial ScholarshipRoberts/Grosse ScholarshipRonald & Madeline Hollett Memorial ScholarshipRoy & Christine Bowers ScholarshipRussell Long Sr. Ministerial Scholarship
Samuel Young Memorial ScholarshipSarah Elizabeth Taylor ScholarshipScott Family ScholarshipSecond Class of 1957 ScholarshipSeifert Music ScholarshipShawn Patrick Flynn Memorial ScholarshipSimonson Family ScholarshipSteelman Family ScholarshipStephen and Christine Nease ScholarshipStephen J. Merrill ScholarshipStephen N. Wolf ScholarshipStephen W. & Virginia O. Lind Memorial ScholarshipStewart & Letha Maddox Memorial ScholarshipStockwell/Waltermire Family Scholarship
The Esther Sanger Memorial Scholarship
Thomas & Madelyn Barnard ScholarshipThomas Edwin & Ruth MacIntosh Rush ScholarshipTrustee Scholarship
Upstate New York NYI Scholarship
Varian Scholarship for Women in MinistryVermont Christian Service ScholarshipVernal & Thelma Woodward Family ScholarshipVirgil & Ruth Hoover ScholarshipVirginia District Ministerial Scholarship
Warren Hartman ScholarshipWashburn ScholarshipWashington Mosaic Church ScholarshipWebb Family ScholarshipWeisen/Marks Family ScholarshipWesley G. & Katherine Angell ScholarshipWilbur H. Mullen Memorial ScholarshipWilliam and Doris Caldwell ScholarshipWinthrop A. French PCI Scholarship
