The College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has acquired a $2 million pledge from a pair to ascertain an endowed scholarship.
The Dr. Rhonda and Ken Dick Endowed Scholarship can be awarded to a scholar who’s a resident of Arkansas and who’s enrolled within the School of Drugs, based on the announcement from UAMS. Desire can be given to a scholar from or dwelling in a rural space who demonstrates a f inancial want, UAMS stated.
Dr. Rhonda Dick retired because the medical director of Pediatric Emergency Drugs at Arkansas Kids’s Hospital in Little Rock in 2019. Ken Dick retired as an assistant director of fiscal companies for the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Analysis in 2006.
The pledge is made via their revocable belief, based on UAMS.
They created the scholarship partially to honor the reminiscence of Dr. Herd Stone, in appreciation of his mentorship and compassionate care of the individuals of Monroe County.
The scholarship additionally honors the reminiscence of Ferrill and Betty Martin, the dad and mom of Dr. Dick, and George Theodore Jr. and Charlotte Kennedy Dick, the dad and mom of Ken Dick.