SECU Endows Local Scholarship

BOONE, N.C. - State Employees CU said it has contributed $8,500 to start an annual scholarship in healthcare at Appalachian State University in the name of Leigh Ann Cable, a freshman who died last year. The scholarship, which was founded by Cable's parents in her name, was funded through the SECU Foundation, the credit union charity. Income from the endowment, housed in the Appalachian State university Foundation, will fund a scholarship to be awarded each year to a student majoring in healthcare.

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The first scholarship will be granted in 2008. The SECU Foundation is one of the largest grantors of college scholarships in the country.


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