ADA, Okla. – The Vision Bank Scholarship was established at the East Central University Foundation in 2014 as a pass-thru fund for Business Administration students and has now been established as a permanent endowment.
“We are thrilled to add this scholarship as a permanent endowment to our growing portfolio” stated Buffy Lovelis, CFO ECU Foundation. “Our partnership with Vision Bank goes way beyond scholarships and this is just one of the many ways they show their commitment to ECU and the Ada Community.”
As an endowment, the scholarship will now be invested with the ECU Foundation portfolio and will live in perpetuity as a legacy for Vision Bank to help current and future ECU students.
“Vision Bank is proud to support ECU and its students. We believe this scholarship will continue to help worthy students achieve their goal of attending ECU,” said Steve Bagwell, President and CEO of Vision Bank of Ada.
Cutline: Vision Bank employees who are also ECU alums with President, Steve Bagwell present a $10,000 check to ECU Foundation CFO, Buffy Lovelis and ECU Foundation CEO, John Hargrave