Lou Ann Bergen Endowed Scholarship Fund

The Lou Ann Bergen Scholarship was established in 2018 by Kim and Eric Belcher (Advert’79) in honor of Lori Bergen, CMCI’s founding dean, and in memory of Dean Bergen’s mother, Lou Ann Bergen. Lou Ann was born in 1929 and graduated from Marquette (KS) High School and Bethany College. After college, Lou Ann married her husband, Richard, and had two children. She worked in Kansas public schools as a teacher and a librarian and earned a master’s degree in library science from Kansas State University in 1983. Lou Ann passed away in 2018.