Other Uses of the Charles Francis Park Scholarship Fund Eventually, surplus funds from the Charles Park Memorial Fund were used to support a variety of other items including the Charles Francis Park Scholarship Fund, Gavel, Endowed Instructors, Oil Portraits, Alumni Newsletter, and Proctoring LIS exams, among other things. The Charles Francis Park Scholarship Fund provided tuition assistance to eligible alumni seeking further education.51 The eight-inch, rosewood gavels with a gold-tone band were given to the outgoing presidents of the LISAA.52 Funds were also used to endow instructors of the Lowell Institute School,53 to pay for oil portraits of each of the directors of the school, and to sponsor the publication of the LISAA Alumni bulletin, the Alumni News, which was published from 1957 until 1996 when the Lowell Institute School was transferred to Northeastern University.54
50 l The Lowell Institute School at Northeastern University