CAPE COUPLE NAMES SOUTHEAST IN ESTATE PLANS

Dr. Fred and Virginia Keisker Goodwin of Cape Girardeau have agreed to give at least $10,000 to Southeast Missouri State University through their estate.

At the time of their deaths, a financial gift will be made to the university to establish the Fred and Virginia Goodwin Piano Scholarship. The recipient must be endorsed by the music department chairman and display talent through an audition.

The Goodwins have become members of the Southeast Missouri University Foundation's Horizon Club.

The club recognizes donors who has named Southeast as a beneficiary of planned gifts.

University officials said planned gifts are crucial for the long-term financial well being of the foundation and the school.

The Goodwins are 1951 graduates of Southeast. Fred Goodwin majored in speech communication. Virginia Goodwin majored in music with an emphasis in piano.

Fred Goodwin was a member of the Southeast faculty from 1955 to 1988, serving variously as director of debate, chairman of the division of language and literature, and dean of the College of Humanities.

A past national president of Pi Kappa Delta, the collegiate debate honorary society, he was elected to the organization's national hall of fame in 1993. He is a past recipient of the university's Alumni Merit Award.

Virginia Goodwin, a student of then-professor Clyde Brandt while enrolled at Southeast, conducted her own piano studio in Cape Girardeau for 33 years.

The Goodwins have three children, all of whom hold degrees from Southeast.