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Alumni give £20,000 to launch Scholarship Fund

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Former Sussex students have launched an endowment fund to provide undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to Sussex.

Members of the Alumni Society have pledged £20,000 to launch the fund. University Development Officer Robin Street says, "We are extremely grateful to the President and members of the Society for taking this initiative. We are now looking at appropriate ways to build the fund, including annual gifts and legacies." Interest from the fund will be used for scholarships and bursaries to encourage high-calibre applicants to Sussex and assist those from low-earning families.

The first scholarship to be supported by the fund will be the Geoff Lockwood Scholarship, which will be awarded, probably annually, to assist a postgraduate student; although the odds on any postgrad finding themselves in the position of the University's former Registrar- who had to sign his own DPhil certificate in 1981- seem remote!

An additional £11,000 has already been pledged by friends, former colleagues, and members of some of the many organisations with which Geoff has been associated over the past thirty-five years.

Anyone wishing to support the endowment fund in general, or the Geoff Lockwood Scholarship in particular, should contact the Alumni and Development Office in Sussex House, tel: 8258.

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Friday November 8th 1996