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Yamamoto, Matsuyo Endowed Scholarship

Matsuyo Omori Yamamoto was the first woman to receive Washington State University’s Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award. After receiving her degree in home economics in 1937 at what was then Washington State College, Yamamoto returned to Japan where she pioneered home economics extension programs. She received her Distinguished Alumnus Award for her contributions to better living […]

Young, Leonard and Edna Endowed Scholarship

Leonard and Edna Young obviously love Pullman and WSU because they lived here for 62 years and for most of those years in the same house on D Street where they have watched WSU grow and students come and go. Leonard grew up in Greeley, Colorado, and graduated from Colorado College with a degree in liberal […]