SPRADLING ACCOUNTING SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED

The Margaret "Peggy" Spradling Accounting Scholarship has been endowed through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.

Albert M. Spradling, Jr. and his family made a gift of $10,000 to the Foundation to endow the scholarship.

The scholarship will benefit students, undergraduate or graduate, who are accounting majors. Recipients must be U.S. citizens, and preference will be given to highly motivated students who have average graduate point averages as compared to high academic achievers.

The Department of Accounting, Finance and Business Law will select the recipients. The first award will be made for the Spring 2000 semester.

Margaret "Peggy" Spradling was born April 24, 1920, in Phoenix, Ariz. Her family later moved to Los Angeles, where she graduated from Washington High School and attended UCLA. She was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigations as a secretary until her marriage to A.M. Spradling Jr., who at the time, was a special agent with the F.B.I. After the war, she and her husband returned to Cape Girardeau and raised two sons, Albert M. Spradling, III, an attorney in Cape Girardeau, and the Rev.

Add One Robert W. Spradling of Lee Summit, Mo. Mrs. Spradling was an avid investor in stocks and bonds.

Because of Mrs. Spradling's interest in business and her immense support of Southeast Missouri State University, the Spradling family has endowed the scholarship. Albert M. Spradling, Jr., is a Southeast alumnus, and their two sons are College of Business graduates. Albert Spradling III graduated in 1969 with a bachelor of science in business administration. Robert Spradling graduated in 1971 with a bachelor of science in business administration.