A scholarship honoring the late Kathy Orr-McDonald will be given next
year for the first time.
After several fund-raising events, plus a donation from the Northern Star
Alumni general fund, the fund has reached $10,000 ... enough to endow a
$400 annual scholarship. The eventual goal is to increase the fund to $12,500,
which would boost the scholarship to $500 a year.
Orr-McDonald, a former Northern Star editor, died in 1997 at age 34. She
was an award-winning business writer for the Daily Southtown. Several of
her friends and contemporaries launched the fund drive last year. They included
Star alums Dennis Spaeth, Mary Butler, Phil Jurik, Mark Bonne and Sharyl
Holtzman.
Thanks to everyone who donated to this scholarship fund in memory of Kathy.
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