Scholarship endowed for MSU - Meridian

The family of a late Meridian insurance executive has endowed a scholarship for the MSU-Meridian Campus.

The Edwin C. Brown Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to full-time students enrolled in the College of Business and Industry at MSU-Meridian and pursuing careers in insurance-related fields.

The scholarship fund will award a minimum of $15,000 at MSU-Meridian, beginning in fall 1999.

"Edwin was very interested in education and in helping students who could not make it on their own financially," said his widow, Edith.

Brown earned degrees in business from Bowling Green University and the University of Denver. He joined the MSU faculty in 1948 as a professor of accounting. He later helped establish the Chair of Insurance.

In 1950, he joined the Meridian-based F.W. Williams State Agency, a managing general insurance agency representing the USF&G Insurance Co., where he served as comptroller. He became the first person in Mississippi to receive the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters designation.

Brown died in 1991.

Persons wishing to contribute to the Meridian Campus scholarship fund should contact the MSU Foundation.