College Announces $100,000 Gift to Establish Endowed Scholarship in the Sciences
Campus News
Franklin College has announced a $100,000 gift establishing the Dr. Barbara Hummel Weil ’47 Memorial Scholarship.
The endowed scholarship was established by Dr. Edward D. Weil in memory of his deceased wife Barbara Hummel Weil, a 1947 Franklin College alumna.
Barbara grew up in Marion, Ind., and enrolled at Franklin College to study chemistry, a field few women at that time explored. Overcoming that challenge, as well as the physical and social challenges of blindness in one eye caused by a childhood illness, she persevered and earned a graduate fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1953 and married her husband, Edward, also a chemistry fellow.