Stanford has started five scholarships to honor graduating students, who died on Sept. 11 because of terrorist attacks. The main aim of the scholarship is to provide financial support to students of Stanford university.
Any undergraduate student can receive the Ulf Ramm Ericson Memorial Fund and the Naomi Solomon Memorial Fund. Undergraduate students who study can try to get the Waleed Iskandar Memorial Fund. One more award, The Bryan C. Jack Memorial Fund will be given to students in the Graduate School of Business. And only students in the School of Education’s Program in Learning, Design and Technology may try to get Vincent M. Boland Memorial Fund.
There are a lot of people who due to Stanford Scholarships received managed to get their degrees. For instance, Vincent M. Boland received his master’s degree from the Program in Learning, Design and Technology in 2001. He was a business analyst, who designed software products for Marsh & McClennan. Boland, who was only 25, died in his office in Tower One in the World Trade Center.
Ulf Ramm Ericson, Swedish, got both bachelor’s and master’s degree in civil engineering from the University in 1948 and 1949. People remember Ericson as an extremely hardworking and devoted to engineering person. On Sept. 11, at the age of 79,he was on the 91st floor of Tower Two.
Herbert Solomon’s daughter, Naomi Solomon was raised on the Stanford campus. In 1970 and 1971, she received her bachelor’s degree in French and her master’s in education from Stanford. After graduating from Stanford, Solomon started to work for World Bank in Washington, D.C. After that Bank of America suggested working for them and she agreed to move. On the morning of Sept. 11, Solomon, 52, was having a conference in the World Trade Center.
Robin Mamlet, dean of admission and financial aid, said in his speech, that Stanford had always understood how important it is to provide educational opportunities for students. He emphasized, that these scholarships to undergraduates will pay tribute to the memory of their alumni, during the terrorist attack on Sept. 11.
This academic year the first nominate of scholarship will receive the grant.