IUP RECEIVES GRANT FROM FORMER PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY

IUP has announced that a former professor and his family members have made a sizeable contribution to the university.

Retired IUP biology professor Dr. Frank Baker, his wife the late Mary Baker and members of the family made a $50,000 gift to the university’s John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Building Fund.  The Baker family has also made a $25,000 donation in honor of Dr. Carl Adams, who was a mentor to the Reverend Kathleen Baker, who was a 1994 music performance graduate that will establish the Carl Adams Scholarship for Flute Performance.  The scholarship pays tribute to a 19-year member of IUP’s music faculty, who worked as a flutist for the West Point Band, and also had engagements at Carnegie Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center, and the Chautauqua Institution.

Baker, who now lives in Elderton, was on the faculty for 30 years from 1966 to 1996, and is the former owner of EcoTech Laboratory and is also a trustee emeritus at Thiel University.