Endowed Scholarship in Creative Writing
Dr. William ’61 and Hannelore Greiner ’62 Heyen have created an endowed scholarship to support graduate scholarships in creative writing.
The Hannelore and William Heyen Graduate Scholarships in Creative Writing will be awarded to two students each year who are enrolled in the graduate program in creative writing at the College. Each year, one poet and one writer of fiction/lyrical essay/creative non-fiction will be chosen for this prestigious award by members of the College’s creative writing faculty.
The Heyens established the scholarship with the hope that that, at least in some small way, it will acknowledge how important the College at Brockport has been in their lives, and to keep necessary faith with Walt Whitman’s “poets to come.”
The Heyens were both born in 1940: Hannelore in Berlin, Germany, and William in Brooklyn, N.Y. The couple met while they were undergraduate students at Brockport.
Hannelore received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1962 and 1979, respectively, from Brockport. After various teaching positions at the College, she worked in and served the community for several decades. In 2000, she was elected to the Brockport Alumni Association Hall of Heritage.
Beginning as a physical education major at Brockport, and becoming a two-year All American in soccer and a three-year varsity basketball player, William graduated with a degree in English education in 1961. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate in 1964 and 1967, respectively, from Ohio University. He then returned to teach at Brockport. Author of more than 30 books, he served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany and has received prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Poetry magazine and other organizations. He is a member of the Golden Eagle Athletic Hall of Fame and the Brockport Alumni Association Hall of Heritage. He retired from the faculty in 2000 as Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus.
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