{"id":8925,"date":"2022-11-01T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2022-11-11T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:29:01","slug":"nicholls-receives-20k-donation-to-create-the-sentilles-truxillo-endowed-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/01\/nicholls-receives-20k-donation-to-create-the-sentilles-truxillo-endowed-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Receives $20K Donation to Create the Sentilles-Truxillo Endowed Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIBODAUX, La. — ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ received a $20,000 donation to create the Sentilles-Truxillo Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is designed to assist graduating seniors in defraying the cost of an admission application for graduate study.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The donor F. Dennis Sentilles, Jr., a 1963 ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ graduate, wishes to pay forward faculty support that changed the trajectory of his life and career. An anonymous professor, as yet unknown to Sentilles, secured graduate support for him in a very strong program, from which followed a life and career well beyond any ambition he could\u2019ve imagined.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs every coach knows, you cannot teach born talent, you can only develop it. It\u2019s the same with a gifted mind, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do here. And I must express my unending thanks to long retired ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ faculty \u2014 Lowell R.Tappan, Elise M. Hughey, Palmer F. Smith \u2014 for the push they gave us all way back then,\u201d said Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Missouri, ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ alumnus and donor, Dennis Sentilles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The annual proceeds of this endowment are to be awarded to a graduating senior in either, or both, the College of Sciences and Technology or the College of Liberal Arts. Applicants must be:<\/span><\/p>\n