New Scholarship Honors Late Admissions Director

degrees, he also spent his entire professional career at his alma mater, helping to recruit generations of future Lakers to study along the shores of his beloved Lake Ontario campus. In 2016, he was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer but remained in his position as director of admissions at SUNY Oswego (albeit on medical leave since 2020) until his passing in July 2022.

Sharon had discussed her desire to establish a scholarship with Dan, and they decided that supporting a student who wanted to pursue a career in higher education made the most sense, especially since there are not as many funding sources available for graduate students.

Dan Griffin ’92 M’00 could have easily skipped out on attending college. Living on a North Country farm as the youngest of 10 in a family led by a single mother, no one would have been disappointed if he hadn’t—well, no one, except Dan.

A humble hard-worker, he was a firstgeneration student, only one of two in his family to earn a bachelor’s degree and the only one to earn a graduate degree.

Not only did he attend SUNY Oswego for both his undergraduate and graduate