FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 17, 2007
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
(662) 329-7124

Endowment to provide full nursing scholarship at MUW
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Ann Moore of Houston, Texas, recently established an endowment to provide a full nursing scholarship at Mississippi University for Women.
   
She established the Exie Carlisle Ory and Llewellyn Earl Ory Scholarship fund in memory of her aunt, Exie Carlisle Ory, class of 1917, and her uncle.
   
Moore did not attend MUW, but lived with her aunt and uncle when she started nursing school. She attended St. Joseph School of Nursing School in Houston, Texas, and graduated in 1946.
   
The retired certified registered nurse said the scholarship is an opportunity for her to honor her aunt and uncle and give back to the field of nursing due to a shortage of nurses.
   
In 2007-2008, the Exie Carlisle Ory and Llewellyn Earl Ory Scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student in the College of Nursing, who is from Mississippi and is enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program with a minimum 3.0 grade point average.
   
For more information about this and other scholarships or how to establish a scholarship fund, please call MUW’s Office of Development at (662) 329-7148.