Two scholarships honor key contributors
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The UIC Nursing-Quad Cities campus recently announced the Lynn E. Kustes Nursing Scholarship, established in May 2019 with a $25,000 gift from John Kustes as a tribute to his late wife. For decades, Lynn Kustes, BSN ’82, was an actively involved alumna in the Quad Cities. She passed away in September 2017.
Another fund to support scholarships in the Quad Cities was fully endowed in 2019 by donations from the campus’s faculty, staff and previous directors. It is in memory of the late Jeanne Gittings, longtime Trinity Medical Center (now Unity Point-Trinity) medical librarian who provided substantial library support to UIC Nursing-Quad Cities students and faculty. The scholarship ‘s first recipient is DNP student Kelli Pool.
Kustes’ gift and gifts to the Gittings scholarship help the College of Nursing move toward its goal for IGNITE: The Campaign for UIC.