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Jason Hans has some fun with children at Parents’
Night Out. They are unknowingly keeping the memory of
his wife alive while raising scholarship money for future
MU students. Photo by Elizabeth Sharp
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Parents’
Night Out
Unique event raises money for College
of Arts and Science in honor of alumna
For many people, Valentine’s weekend
might have been spent at a favorite restaurant or watching a
romantic movie in the sole company of a loved one. But for a
group of volunteers at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s
Child Development
Lab in the College
of Human Environmental Sciences, it was a unique opportunity
to raise scholarship money by spending the evening with children
whose parents were enjoying a child-free, romantic evening together.
Irina Hans, AB ’00, MA
’02,
was killed in October during
an internship at the
Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, D.C. |
The child-free date night program, sponsored
by the MU Council on Family Relations, raised funds for the
Irina Hans Scholarship in Art History, a scholarship established
in honor of its namesake, who was killed in late 2002 while
completing an internship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
in Washington, D.C. Irina’s husband, Jason Hans, a doctoral
student in the Department of Human
Development and Family Studies in the College, initiated
the event as an innovative way to generate funding to support
the scholarship. The fund will assist MU students pursuing a
degree in art history in the College of Arts and Sciences, of
which Irina was a graduate.
MU has more than 780 endowed scholarship
funds. Four out of five MU undergraduate students receive some
form of financial assistance — a total of more than $116
million in aid each year. In fall 2001, 70 percent of MU freshmen
received merit-based scholarships or need-based grants.
These funds have been established by and
rely on the generous support of alumni, parents, friends, corporations
and foundations. Each one is carefully maintained and administered
by MU. For more information on gift opportunities with MU, please
visit the Giving to
MU website.
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