MEYER SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED THROUGH FOUNDATION

The William E. and Joan Meyer Scholarship has been endowed through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.

The agriculture department at Southeast Missouri State University along with friends of William Meyer made gifts totaling $10,000 to endow the scholarship.

The scholarship will be awarded for the first time this fall to a student majoring in any of the disciplines within the agriculture department. The recipient also must be a Missouri resident, demonstrate financial need and be a beginning freshman or transfer student from a community college. The recipient must not be a recipient of another major scholarship. The department chairman will make the award.

Dr. William Meyer was born in north St. Francois County. After graduating from high school, he spent the next two years in the U.S. Army.

Returning from the Army, he attended Flat River Junior College from 1957 to 1958, receiving a bachelor of science degree in animal husbandry. He earned a master of science degree in meat technology in 1960 and a doctoral degree in 1965, both from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

He began his teaching career at Southeast in 1965 and continued until his retirement earlier this year. He chaired the agriculture department from 1970 to 1990, and served as interim chairman in 1995.

Joan Lasley Meyer was born in Nevada, Mo. She received a bachelor of science degree in vocational home economics in 1988 from Southeast. She is a member of the River Heritage Quilt Guild and worked on the quilt donated earlier this year to Southeast in honor of the university's 125th anniversary.