Lloyd and Alverta Cooper Endowment

Eligibility: All
Area of Interest: General

Criteria:

First criteria, recipients shall be transfer students from the MPCC Broken Bow Extended Campus Second criteria, recipients shall be from the Nebraska counties of Custer, Blaine, Thomas, Hooker or Logan. Only if there are no students who apply or qualify or if the extended campus at Broken Bow is no longer in operations may this endowment be used to provide general scholarship support to CSC students.

Gary Cooper spent the first summer of his life in Chadron with his parents, for whom this endowment is named. They were both teachers (although his mother took a few years off after his birth and then that of his brother) and his father attended classes at Chadron State that summer. They both taught for over 20 years in small towns in central and western Nebraska: Sargent, Anselmo, Dunning, Seneca and Minatare. They had students and Gary had schoolmates who later went to Chadron State, and they always spoke fondly of that summer together at Chadron. Gary, and then they, later moved to Lincoln where he graduated from the University and his mother had a 25-year career with the Lincoln public Schools. They all maintained an interest in their original home area and in helping some of the young people of that area attend Chadron State College.