Two estate gifts create scholarships for Elon students
Elon University recently received two estate gifts totaling more than $1.3 million. The gifts were given from the estates of Margaret (Peggy) Leister ’67 of Towson, Maryland and Muir William Grant and his wife, Lorraine Fogleman Grant of Burlington, North Carolina. The Leister endowment of more than $800,000 will give scholarship aid for students with disabilities and the Fogleman Grant endowment will support students studying music. The two estate gifts come a day after the announcement that Dwight and Martha Schar P’16 and P’19 pledged $12 million to Elon – $8 million towards the expansion of the School of Communications and $4 million to a new multipurpose building that will serve as a place for campus speakers, convocation and athletic events. The Leister endowment Leister supported Elon for many years with annual contributions to The Educational Opportunities Fund for Students with Disabilities before she passed away in 2013.
