Jerome and Sadie Hirsch Nursing Scholarship

Professor Emeritus Alfred Bedell, Trustee of the Jerome and Sadie Hirsch Trust, established this scholarship to memorialize his dear friends. Mr. Hirsch served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the depression and served in the United States Navy as a chief electronics technician in World War II in the Pacific Theater and in Korea. He received a BS from Marist College and was an electronics instructor for IBM in Kingston until his retirement in 1973. Mr. Hirsch died in 2009 at the age of 94, his wife, Sadie, died in 1997. This scholarship will be awarded to an entering or returning nursing student who demonstrates care and compassion. Est. 2009