WOEF board celebrating 50th anniversary
CELINA — This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Western Ohio Educational Foundation (WOEF). Throughout 2012, the WOEF Board, its past and present members, as well as Wright State University-Lake Campus will celebrate 50 years of promoting and assisting higher education in the area by hosting a number of public and private events.

Incorporated on January 24, 1962, the Western Ohio Educational Foundation (WOEF) was organized by a group of forward-thinking citizens in response to a growing desire for Auglaize, Darke, Mercer and Van Wert county residents to have access to higher education. This grass-roots organization secured the funding to build and operate an institution of higher education in this rural northwest Ohio region. After fifty years, the Lake Campus of Wright State University is the only institution of higher education in the West Central Ohio. For five decades, WOEF has remained strongly committed to the success of the Lake Campus.
Since 1965, WOEF has awarded over $2.7 million in scholarships to Lake Campus students while providing unwavering financial support for student programs and activities. The Board has spearheaded various fundraising campaigns securing the land to build the academic buildings, the first student housing unit, and other renovations throughout the last fifty years.
Visitors to the campus during 2012 will see the banner displaying the 50th anniversary logo created by student Mara Rindler on a black banner donated in part by Reynolds & Reynolds. The banner holds a place of honor on the WSU-Lake Campus sign at the corner of Ohio 703 and Lake Campus Drive.
For more information visit the Lake Campus website at http://www.wright.edu/lake/about/woef.html
POSTED: 01/26/12 at 6:47 am. FILED UNDER: News