{"id":4139,"date":"2024-11-06T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:44:45","slug":"record-breaking-attendance-highlights-impact-at-siu-foundation-scholarship-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=4139","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking attendance highlights impact at SIU Foundation Scholarship Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"11th Annual SIU Scholarship Dinner 2024\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gim0EY8Q4o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Donors and scholarship recipients connected during the 11th Annual SIU Scholarship Dinner on Friday, Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event brought together a record-breaking 119 donors and donor representatives and 86 scholarship recipients, representing 91 unique scholarships\u2014each a testament to the profound impact of philanthropy at Southern.<\/p>\n<p>The evening was highlighted by inspiring stories, laughter, and meaningful connections between SIU\u2019s generous donors and the remarkable students whose lives they\u2019ve transformed.<\/p>\n<p>Donors witnessed firsthand how their support impacts students, many of whom have overcome great challenges to pursue higher education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we\u2019ve met all of our recipients from the scholarship, it just warms my heart. Actually, my heart\u2019s bursting just for the fact that we can help in some small way,\u201d said Ron Jurinek, who has established the Jacob Jurinek Scholarship in memory of his son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donors and scholarship recipients connected during the 11th Annual SIU Scholarship Dinner on Friday, Nov. 1. This year\u2019s event brought together a record-breaking 119 donors and donor representatives and 86 scholarship recipients, representing 91 unique scholarships\u2014each a testament to the profound impact of philanthropy at Southern. The evening was highlighted by inspiring stories, laughter, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=4139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record-breaking attendance highlights impact at SIU Foundation Scholarship Dinner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donor-stories","category-events-engagement","category-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}