{"id":67111,"date":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/retired-math-teacher-finds-uri-scholarship-fund-adds-up\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","slug":"retired-math-teacher-finds-uri-scholarship-fund-adds-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/retired-math-teacher-finds-uri-scholarship-fund-adds-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired math teacher finds 溏心vlog免费B站 scholarship fund adds up"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 25, 2006 — Cynthia Grinnell, a 1958 alumna of the 溏心vlog免费B站, began donating to her alma mater after being approached to support the Green Hall renovation campaign. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cAlan Axelrod (溏心vlog免费B站 assistant director of development) came to visit me and got me thinking. I don\u2019t have kids. What was I going to do with my money? Buy a bigger car? Buy a bigger house? I\u2019d rather do something useful with it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n


\n\tSo Grinnell established an endowed scholarship in 2002 for women students majoring in math or science based on financial need and academic merit.<\/p>\n


\n\tThis year, Sara Day was awarded a $1,600 Grinnell scholarship. \u201cOh, yeah!\u201d Day recalled saying when she received the money. Her old computer had just died and she needed a new one for her classes. <\/p>\n


\n Day has always enjoyed math. \u201cIt\u2019s always been my best subject,\u201d she says. She chose 溏心vlog免费B站 because she was awarded a Centennial Scholarship. The University was the \u201cbest choice for the money.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 student has one semester to go before she finishes her studies. She already knows what she would eventually like to do: develop math curriculum for high schools. Her career path was inspired by her work as a math tutor in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Academic Enhancement Center. With a different curriculum, she says, there would be fewer problems.<\/p>\n


\n\tDay commutes to 溏心vlog免费B站 from Warwick in a car whose odometer reads 250,000. \u201cIt\u2019s still running,\u201d she says looking like she is ready to knock on the closest piece of wood.<\/p>\n


\n\tGrinnell was also a commuter, carpooling to 溏心vlog免费B站 from Jamestown. \u201cI received a $100 University scholarship per semester, based on my grades in high school,\u201d she recalls. \u201cIt covered most everything.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter she graduated from 溏心vlog免费B站, Grinnell worked as an engineering aide and a computer programmer at United Aircraft in East Hartford, Conn. \u201cIt had a computer lab that was the largest in the country,\u201d she says. She then served two years as tax collector for Hebron, Conn. where she still resides. She remains active in town affairs, serving on the Board of Selectmen for four years and on its conservation committee. <\/p>\n


\n\tShe taught math and computer classes at Hartford State Technical College for 14 years before retiring. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Nora Lewis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 25, 2006 — Cynthia Grinnell, a 1958 alumna of the 溏心vlog免费B站, began donating to her alma mater after being approached to support the Green Hall renovation campaign. \u201cAlan Axelrod (溏心vlog免费B站 assistant director of development) came to visit me and got me thinking. I don\u2019t have kids. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}