A brand new “GPS” will help Thomas Jefferson University students find their way in the world.
Robert “Bob” Lockyer, ’68, and his wife, Carol, have established the Lockyer GPS—or Global Passport Scholarship—at the university with a leadership gift. The scholarship will provide financial aid-based grants to students at the College of Architecture and the Built Environment who are embarking on study abroad programs.
Bob Lockyer says the scholarship stems from a desire to “give back to the school that was willing to take a chance on me.”
“We’ve all got to remember where we came from and who got us started,” he says. “Giving kids an opportunity to study abroad can only expand their minds related to their field. Giving financial aid to students from underrepresented demographic populations and single-parent households provides them an opportunity they might not otherwise have.”
Bob says he took his philanthropic lead from his mother, Betty Lockyer Merriam, who gave back, even when she could not really afford to do so. “It left a deep impression on me and I have tried to follow her example.”