HIRAM: Hiram College received a $1 million cash gift this week from trustee Paula Frohring through the Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation.
It is the largest single gift of the foundation’s nearly $6.5 million total to the college in Portage County.
The money will support scholarships for biology and chemistry students, as well as faculty and student research at Hiram’s 500-plus-acre James H. Barrow Field Station.
“The Frohring family has long supported our beloved Hiram College, its unique field station and the hands-on and personalized learning opportunities we offer there and throughout the campus,” President Lori Varlotta said in a prepared statement. “This most recent and very generous gift will further enhance the field station and bolster the college’s curricular and co-curricular offerings in sustainability.”
The Forhrings have collectively given about $15 million to the college.
The gift also will support the stewardship of the Field Station’s natural resources and the maintenance of its physical plant. The area is home to wetlands, the state’s second largest uncut maple-beech forest and a wildlife conservation program that includes an endangered duck species and a rehabilitation wing.
“This gift certainly helps to end 2016 on a high note and positions the year to come in the most wonderful way,” Varlotta said.