Lillie Mae Sturkes Establishes Scholarship in Her Name

Lillie Mae Sturkes, an alum, grew up in rural Alabama.  When she moved to Tampa and went to work for GTE, she took advantage of GTE's tuition reimbursement program and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in our College. After retiring from GTE, she went to work as a kindergarten teacher at Robert E. Lee Elementary school. After retiring from the Hillsborough County School District in 2004, she decided to do for others what GTE's program had done for her. Thanks to Lillie Mae, we will have many other fine teachers following in her footsteps.

We are grateful to College of Education alumni who have estalished endowments and those who are considering a legacy gift to sustain their intereste and passion into the future with little or no expense today. For additional information, contact Dick Dearolf in the COEDU Development Office at (813) 974-033 or dearolf@coedu.usf.edu.

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The University of South Florida is one of the nation's top 63 public research universities and one of 39 community-engaged, four-year public universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. USF was awarded more than $360 million in research contracts and grants in FY 2007/2008. The university offers 219 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialist and doctoral levels, including the doctor of medicine. The university has a $1.8 billion annual budget, an annual economic impact of $3.2 billion, and serves more than 46,000 students on institutions/campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and Lakeland. USF is a member of the Big East Athletic Conference.

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