PHILANTHROPY EARNS PRAISE

Harry and Rosemary Crisp of Marion, Ill., have supported Southeast Missouri State University consistently and generously for many years without a lot of fanfare. The Crisps own Pepsi-Cola plants in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.

Rosemary Crisp has been particularly supportive of the university's nursing program, helping to fund renovation of a campus building for nursing classes in 1988.

She also founded the university's President's Council the same year, an organization for major donors. Only those donors who give $10,000 or more to the university gain membership to this group. Under Crisp's extraordinary leadership, contributions through the President's Council to the university's foundation have topped $29 million.

Recently, Mrs. Crisp earned well-deserved national recognition for her generosity to the university. She was named Philanthropist of the Year by the St. Louis chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.

The Crisps' share-the-wealth attitude is a shining example of the good that comes from philanthropy.