Monday, January 12, 2004
New geology scholarship honors late state senator J.R. Dick Harris
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Southern Indiana Higher Education Inc. (SIHE), the nonprofit corporation which raised nearly one million dollars in a community fund drive to acquire land for the USI campus and helped raise funds for University of Southern Indiana’s initial student housing, has contributed $15,000 to the USI Foundation to establish a memorial scholarship honoring the late state senator James R. Dick Harris, who died in September at age 74. Harris had served on the SIHE board as well as the USI Foundation board of directors. Harris, a geologist and owner of Dick Harris & Associates, spent many years in public service, representing southwestern Indiana as a state senator from 1974 to 1986 during the period when the University of Southern Indiana was seeking independent status as a separate state university. Harris loved to reminisce from his legislator’s viewpoint about the efforts it took to wage the successful campaign. The James R. Dick Harris Memorial Scholarship for Geology will help attract top geology students with an expressed interest in applying geology in the fields of the environment, public policy, petroleum, or business, reflecting Harris’ career. |
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