Creates Scholarship in Honor of her Parents
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Anne E. Huot has created a scholarship that will recognize outstanding student leaders at the College and pay tribute to her parents.
The Donald and Gloria Huot Excellence in Leadership Awards, named in honor of Huot’s parents, will help support two juniors and two seniors each year. The scholarship recipients must demonstrate strong academic achievement and leadership skills through service to the College or community, such as serving in a position of leadership of Brockport Student Government or other student clubs or organizations, being a successful and respected Resident Assistant or organizing or leading a group of peers or other in a successful fundraising or community service activity. Preference is given to first generation college students.
Huot said her parents didn’t graduate from college but placed a high currency on education. Out of the couple’s seven children, all attended college, six graduated and four went on to receive graduate degrees.
“When we were kids, we all sat at the dining room table after dinner and did our homework, whether we had any or not. They taught us discipline, responsibility and an appreciation for what we had,” said Huot. “They knew that access to a quality education was important to our futures, and they sacrificed to make it happen.”
Huot said creating the scholarship was her way of repaying what her parents gave her.
“I gave it forward out of respect for their sacrifices and gratitude for how much that sacrifice has contributed to my success,” said Huot. “I hope that with these scholarships the recipients will someday give the gift forward as well so that the legacy will continue.”
Huot said her parents, who live in Manchester, New Hampshire, devoted their lives to instilling in their children a deep respect for the power of education and an understanding of their responsibility to give back to their communities so that others may benefit by being thoughtful and engaged citizens.
“My parents are salt of the earth people,” she said. “They don’t have a lot of pretense; they know who they are and they are proud of it.”
In addition, Huot said that as Provost of the College she believes it is her responsibility to lead by example and to let others know that she values a Brockport education enough to personally invest in it. And just as she hopes to inspire others, Huot said she, too, was inspired by donors, including Dr. Richard and Joan ’79 Fenton and George ’54 and Rosie Rich among others.
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