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Ted E. Drucker Scholarship
Drucker Gift Honors Husband's Commitment to Help
Ellen Drucker says her late husband, Ted E. Drucker, always spoke of helping individuals who were motivated and capable, but lacked the means to advance.
That view of him, combined with his "soft spot" for the business school, inspired Mrs. Drucker to establish the Ted E. Drucker Scholarship in the amount of $100,000 for rising junior and senior business students who are "motivated and capable," but lack financial resources.
Ted Drucker earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics from USC in 1956. He went on to a distinguished career with the federal government, beginning in the General Accounting Agency and rising to the position of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Atlanta region. He also earned a law degree, which Mrs. Drucker says served him well in his professional role.
His brother Dr. Meyer Drucker, a 1959 alumnus of the business school and a distinguished lecturer in the School of Accounting from the late 1990s until 2001 (he now teaches at Coastal Carolina), "guided me in the process" of establishing the scholarship, Mrs. Drucker says.
Mrs. Drucker says she admires the Gates Foundation for "intelligently" targeting those in need and choosing causes that will have the greatest impact. "While we are not on that level," she says, it is her hope that her gift will similarly give a deserving student a leg up and that eventually, that individual will in turn make a lasting contribution to the world.
Ellen Drucker says her late husband, Ted E. Drucker, always spoke of helping individuals who were motivated and capable, but lacked the means to advance.
That view of him, combined with his "soft spot" for the business school, inspired Mrs. Drucker to establish the Ted E. Drucker Scholarship in the amount of $100,000 for rising junior and senior business students who are "motivated and capable," but lack financial resources.
Ted Drucker earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics from USC in 1956. He went on to a distinguished career with the federal government, beginning in the General Accounting Agency and rising to the position of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Atlanta region. He also earned a law degree, which Mrs. Drucker says served him well in his professional role.
His brother Dr. Meyer Drucker, a 1959 alumnus of the business school and a distinguished lecturer in the School of Accounting from the late 1990s until 2001 (he now teaches at Coastal Carolina), "guided me in the process" of establishing the scholarship, Mrs. Drucker says.
Mrs. Drucker says she admires the Gates Foundation for "intelligently" targeting those in need and choosing causes that will have the greatest impact. "While we are not on that level," she says, it is her hope that her gift will similarly give a deserving student a leg up and that eventually, that individual will in turn make a lasting contribution to the world.
December 2007