Awarding expenses for registration, room and board, travel for the 2011 SVHE Annual Meeting at Elmhurst College (near Chicago) July 27-31
In memory of
Mary Jo Small
(February 5, 1922 – December 25, 2009)
and her contributions to the Society for Values in Higher Education
 
Mary Jo Small’s leadership, wisdom, and humor sparked Fellows, Meetings over many years.  Furthermore, her support of SVHE projects helped implement our goals and assured that they were thoughtfully conceived, developed, and executed.  We will miss her, and are grateful for the significant bequest from her estate, which we will use to keep her name and memory alive.
 
We, therefore, would like to honor the memory of Mary Jo Small by creating three annual fellowships, commencing 2010, to be funded by the bequest which she left to the Society.  These fellowships will be awarded to college teachers early in their careers and will pay for their registration, room and board and travel to the SVHE summer meeting.  To the extent it is possible to preserve the bequest for future recipients, consideration will be given to supporting the attendance of family.
 
The fellowship recipients will be known as the “The Mary Jo Small Fellows” and will be informed of Mary Jo’s legacy.  The Board will also look for other ways to use the bequest to enhance the Society’s outreach to classroom teaching, a mission that was dear to her heart.