Robert M. and Gloria W. Griesemer have committed $52,000 to endow a Trustee Matching Scholarship for students, with first preference going to engineering majors.

Robert Griesemer graduated in 1958 as a member of the last class of Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute, before its facilities were donated to the University and it became Penn State Berks. In 1966, he was awarded a Rotary Foundation Scholarship and he traveled to Leicester College in England, where he completed a year of intensive technical studies.

Griesemer retired in 2002 as a marketing manager for Arrow International, a leading supplier of central vascular access catheterization products worldwide, based in Reading.

"Penn State Berks carries on WPI's dedication to excellence in technology and engineering education, and Gloria and I are proud to be part of that tradition through this new scholarship," Griesemer explained. "I am proud of the accomplishments I have made with Textile Machine Works and my affiliation with Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute."

Griesemer has been an active member of the Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute Affiliate Program Group and a Berks Alumni Society board member.

Penn State's Trustee Matching Scholarship Program is designed to ensure that a Penn State education is accessible to qualified students, regardless of their financial means. Implemented in 2002 upon approval by the University's Board of Trustees, the program has a unique matching component in which the University matches 5 percent of the principal of each gift annually and combines these funds with income from the endowment to effectively double the financial impact of the scholarship. The program assisted nearly 4,400 students University-wide in 2006-07.

To learn more about the Trustee Matching Scholarship Program, contact David Delozier, at (610) 396-6056. Visit http://www.giveto.psu.edu/Trustee online.