NORMAL — On July 5, former Walnut High School teacher Robert Glaser formalized an endowment to the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University. The Robert J. Glaser Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund will provide scholarships to eligible students in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University.

As he signed the agreement, Glaser said, “I grew up in Pontiac, Illinois, the only child of a furniture salesman and a legal stenographer. As an elementary student, impressed by my teachers, I knew I wanted to become a teacher. Along the way, other educators inspired and encouraged me. Now, after 34 years as a high school social studies teacher, I can unequivocally say I made the right choice. At 80 years of age, after over two decades of retirement, I still miss the challenge, excitement and considerable rewards of teaching young people.”

Glaser went on to say: “Albert Einstein said it best: ‘A hundred times a day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.’ This scholarship is an attempt to acknowledge those labors. I wish future recipients of this scholarship the very best in their endeavors and charge each of them with the responsibility to enrich the lives of others.”

Present at the signing ceremony were ISU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Greg Simpson and ISU Foundation Director of Development Stephanie Sellers. Family in attendance included Judy Anderson Glaser, Debbie Quinn, Mary Beach and Glenn Carl.