Washington College has received $2.5 million in grants this year from The Hodson Trust to establish merit scholarships and to support the College's C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. Of that gift, $1.25 million will be used to establish a merit-based tuition scholarship program for students intending to major in the sciences.
In addition, The Trust has announced the naming of the Hodson Foundation Minority Scholarship awards in memory of the late James H. Gilliam, Jr., an attorney, private investor, consultant, philanthropist and former trustee of the Hodson Trust, as well as executive vice president and general counsel at Beneficial Corporation. Mr. Gilliam was an alumnus of Morgan State University in Baltimore and a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law and the Wharton School's Advanced Management Program.
Hodson-Gilliam Scholarships are presented by Washington College to entering students from ethnic backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in higher education. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of academic and personal achievement.
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