Endowment Goal Reached
Today, on the first anniversary of Gerrie’s passing, the piano scholarship that will bear her name reached the $25,000 threshold to become a perpetual award. I mailed a check for the final $412.50 to the MSU Foundation last week and post-dated it to March 4th, 2024, so that the fund’s passage to fully-endowed status would coincide with this most meaningful, symbolic day.
Gerrie’s greatest legacies, of course, are the love, admiration, and gratitude she inspired in those who were privileged to know her. If, as the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, “the best is lost,” I count it a worthy consolation that some “fragment” of her will remain at the institution where she unreservedly poured herself into her students for 27 years.
I offer my humble, heartfelt thanks to all who so generously supported this cause. And I look forward to the day, hopefully next spring, when the first recipient of the Gerrie Collins Endowed Piano Scholarship is announced.
With Gratitude,
Elizabeth Lowrey