“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust”...those were the familiar words Jerry Blankenship of Third Creek Presbyterian Church spoke at a special ceremony to reinter the remains of 19th century Rowan County teacher Peter Stewart Ney.
The rising costs of living in places like New York and Washington have changed students’ calculations as to where they are able to take summer internships.
With its excellent academic and music programs, Oberlin College in Ohio seemed like a perfect fit for Nina Huang, a California high school student who plays flute and piano and hopes to eventually study medicine or law.
“A lot of them spend traditionally at pretty low rates from their endowment,” said endowment specialist John Griffith. “Larger, well-endowed organizations often have the ability to raise how much they take out of the endowment at difficult times.”