Uses and Procedures:
The income from the endowment will provide funds for the support of the Murrow College. Income may be used for all priority needs identified by the dean of the Murrow College and dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
The special preferences of the donor include:
- support of student scholarships, fellowships and internships, particularly in the field of journalism.
- support of faculty and teaching enrichment, particularly as it relates to recognizing and retaining great teachers, and,
- faculty enhancement in the form of distinguished visiting professorships and lectureships.
History:
This fund was established by Jean Baumgarten LeGros, a Class of 1948 graduate in English and journalism. Her campus activities included editor of the Evergreen, Theta Sigma Phi (now Women in Communications, Inc.), Board of Control, and Kappa Delta Sorority. She went on to a career as a newspaper reporter in Centralia, Washington, and in corporate communications in Minneapolis and Seattle, for more than twenty five years.
She received the Seattle Professional Chapter of Women in Communications Georgina Davis Founder’s Award in 1985. She is a member of the Women’s University Club of Seattle and was president in 1973. Jean’s husband Theodore A. LeGros also was a Washington State College graduate. They met in Seattle where he practiced admiralty and international law, and they enjoyed many years of world travel and contacts. A separate endowment is named in his memory of political science.