2008 Woodie Awards
Alumna gives $1 million donation
Katie Via
Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: News
Originally published: 9/20/07 at 6:45 PM EST
Last update: 9/20/07 at 11:48 PM EST
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Plattsburgh State has received a $1 million donations, the largest alumni gift in the college's history, from the estate of alumna Olive Mason Flynt.
The money will be used to finance the Olive M. Flynt Food and Nutrition scholarship which will award $50,000 a year to students needing tuition assistance.
Enamuthu Joseph, director of the nutrition program, said there are about 100 students in the nutrition program, but details about the scholarship have yet to be made.
Flynt, who grew up locally in Beekmantown Corners, received her undergraduate degree from PSUC in Home Economics in 1941, and then continued with her master's degree in 1952.
After graduating she worked in various positions with the Social Security Administration, the Department of Social Services and A. Mason and Son's Inc. before returning to PSUC as an administrative assistant.
Appointed as Secretary to the President in 1954, Flynt worked for 35 years alongside both George W. Angell and Joseph C. Burke, and retired in 1989 as Assistant to the President.
Among other duties, Flynt scheduled appointments, coordinated travel visits and managed correspondents. She was, "A force to be reckoned with," said William Laundry, vice president for student affairs. "If you wanted to get through to the president you got through Olive first".
Flynt previously established a scholarship fund for students in Food and Nutrition, HotelRestaurant and Tourism Management and Canadian Studies, and was an officer of the Plattsburgh College Foundation from its creation in 1964.
"She was really involved in the creation of the foundation and right from the beginning she was intimately involved in raising support for the college," Anne Hansen, vice president for institutional advancement, said.
Flynt was also a member of the PSUC Alumni Association, and was awarded the Once in a Century Alumni Award, the Presidential Award of Honor and the Alumni Service Award.
The money will be used to finance the Olive M. Flynt Food and Nutrition scholarship which will award $50,000 a year to students needing tuition assistance.
Enamuthu Joseph, director of the nutrition program, said there are about 100 students in the nutrition program, but details about the scholarship have yet to be made.
Flynt, who grew up locally in Beekmantown Corners, received her undergraduate degree from PSUC in Home Economics in 1941, and then continued with her master's degree in 1952.
After graduating she worked in various positions with the Social Security Administration, the Department of Social Services and A. Mason and Son's Inc. before returning to PSUC as an administrative assistant.
Appointed as Secretary to the President in 1954, Flynt worked for 35 years alongside both George W. Angell and Joseph C. Burke, and retired in 1989 as Assistant to the President.
Among other duties, Flynt scheduled appointments, coordinated travel visits and managed correspondents. She was, "A force to be reckoned with," said William Laundry, vice president for student affairs. "If you wanted to get through to the president you got through Olive first".
Flynt previously established a scholarship fund for students in Food and Nutrition, HotelRestaurant and Tourism Management and Canadian Studies, and was an officer of the Plattsburgh College Foundation from its creation in 1964.
"She was really involved in the creation of the foundation and right from the beginning she was intimately involved in raising support for the college," Anne Hansen, vice president for institutional advancement, said.
Flynt was also a member of the PSUC Alumni Association, and was awarded the Once in a Century Alumni Award, the Presidential Award of Honor and the Alumni Service Award.
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