Northern Oklahoma College to announce the largest ever private donation
NORTHERN OKLAHOMA COLLEGE
Public Information Office
PO Box 310
Tonkawa, OK 74653-0310
Telephone: 580-628-6444
FAX: 580-628-6673
E-mail: bill.johnson@north-ok.edu
Website: www.north-ok.edu
For immediate release
August 23, 2010
Press Advisory
Northern Oklahoma College receives largest private donation ever
Donation will provide financial support to deserving students
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 – 2:30 p.m.
Northern Oklahoma College, Renfro Center
1220 East Grand, Tonkawa, OK
(Press conference to be held in the Renfro Center)
Tom Poole, Interim President of Northern Oklahoma College along with Sheri Snyder, Northern
Oklahoma College Foundation, Inc. (NOCF) executive director, will announce the donation to Northern
Oklahoma College (NOC) from the Ima Faythe Berglund estate during this press conference. This is the
largest private donation the NOC Foundation has ever received and will provide financial support to
deserving NOC students through scholarship awards.
The late Ima Faythe Berglund, who passed away July 13, is a 1935 graduate of NOC, then called
University Preparatory School (UPS) at Tonkawa. The UPS prepared high school students to enter the
University of Oklahoma. Berglund, longtime Ponca City resident, was born on a farm near Crescent, OK,
is a 1933 Perry High School graduate, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma (OU)
in 1971 and a master’s from OU in 1983 after her retirement from Conoco in 1981.
There will be media kits available containing information about NOC, the foundation and the donor, and
there will be a photo opportunity when a ceremonial check is presented to the NOC Foundation from
RCB – Pioneer Bank and Trust of Ponca City, trustee of the Berglund Estate.
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