Chi and Candace Cheung

With the goal of facilitating increased cultural exchange between his native country and the United States, Chi Cheung and his wife Candace are providing an annual gift of $10,000 to the Foundation to support interns from Truman.

After immigrating from his ancestral home in Da Tian in the People’s Republic of China, Cheung built a successful community-based business in Jefferson City, Mo. In addition to their support of Truman, the Cheungs have a well-established history of philanthropic endeavors. They previously financed the building of a school in Chi’s rural hometown in the mountains of western China. In the fall of 2014, Truman students Michael Fentress and Summer Santos received the Cheung Annual Scholarship for the Truman EFL Internship in China and spent the semester teaching English at the school.

In June 2015, the Cheungs made a generous gift to a second fund, the New Horizons Support Foundation Scholarship. This fund provides renewable scholarships for students from rural China to cover tuition, room and board costs and related educational expenses at Truman. The inaugural recipient arrived on campus in the fall of 2015.

Pyung and Sue Han of Mountain View, Calif., recently made a contribution of $25,000 to establish the Dr. and Mrs. Pyung E. Han Scholarship.

Designed to support high-achieving business administration students with financial need, the Han’s hope this scholarship will allow exceptional students the opportunity to attend Truman and develop extraordinary leadership skills. The scholarship will be available for upper-class business administration students who are already active in community and/or extracurricular activities and have demonstrated leadership.

Pyung Han served on the business faculty at Truman from 1981 to 2004. Although he has been away from Truman for a dozen years, his interest in the success of the University and its students has not wavered.

Dr. Arnold Zuckerman

The Dr. Arnold Zuckerman Digital History Internship of Sustainability at Truman was created through a $15,000 gift from Zuckerman’s stepdaughter, Judi G. Schweitzer of Lake Forest, Calif. The fund provides an annual internship experience for a history student who also possesses an interest in honing his or her website design skills. Students selected for the internship work with Truman’s Sustainability Committee to develop an ongoing digital history of sustainability at the University.

The first intern selected was Tyler Chambers, who was asked to not only create a website about Truman’s sustainability program, but also to provide a visual topography of the program’s milestones. Chambers’ initial focus was on building a framework for how to tell the story of Truman’s significant achievements in sustainability. This was accomplished through the creation of an interactive timeline that highlights major events and includes links to other relevant information regarding the activity. It can be accessed online at sustainability.truman.edu/timeline.

Zuckerman, who passed away in 2008, was a professor of history at the University from 1963 to 1990. This fund commemorates his distinguished career as a scholar, research historian and dedicated teacher.