The Ray and Irene Crum Endowment

This endowment is in memory of Ray and Irene Crum. Both came from very poor families. Ray who through some high school hijinks did not know he had graduated until joining the army during WWII. Irene had to quit school to work to help support her family. Ray became a truck driver after the war, until later in life when he became a Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officer with the State of Iowa. Irene was a homemaker, and later a department manager at K-Mart.

It was important to them that their son (a DMACC graduate) had educational opportunities that they did not have.

This scholarship in their memory is to help provide educational opportunities for those with families who would have trouble affording further education while supporting that family. To be able to provide a better future for themselves and their children.