SUMMER 2019
WELCOMING A NEW
Director of Development
“W
you?”
led to difficulties in maintaining a steady job.
the
“As the youngest child in the family, I saw
framed scholarship award
the struggle that each of my older siblings
sitting on the podium in
faced when it was our turn to go to college.
front of her, “This,” she said. As the youngest of
My parents weren’t able to provide financial
seven growing up in Clifton, Idaho, Catherine
support, but what they did provide us was
Rider always knew she wanted to attend
an intense love of learning and a clear
college like her mother, grandmother and
understanding that higher education could
sisters. “But, due to my family circumstances,
provide a more stable life for each of us.” So,
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I knew I would need to earn a scholarship to
Rider worked hard to excel academically,
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achieve that goal.” Throughout her childhood
earning the Laura Moore Cunningham
and teenage years, Rider’s family lived well
Foundation Scholarship through Idaho State
below the poverty line. “My father had served
University for $13,500. The scholarship was
three tours in Vietnam after graduating
awarded over four years- a contribution that
Students in Service
from high school, and suffered from severe
would end up paying for three quarters of
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that went
her tuition. “That scholarship is what made
undiagnosed and untreated until after I had
it possible for me to achieve my goal of
graduated from high school.” Rider said that
earning a college degree, and my decision
although her father was a skilled tradesman
to come to ISU changed my life in ways I
and an extremely intelligent man, his illness
could never have imagined,” said Rider. In
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hat
motivates
Catherine
grabbed
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