nspired by their own and their daughter’s experiences at Maryland, Roger Winston ’76 and his wife Karen Lovell Winston ’75 have given $100,000 to the University Honors Program, the Incentive Awards Program for students at Northwestern High School in Prince George’s County, the Pathways program and the Terrapin Club.
“After Emily graduated we began to think about how we could make a larger commitment to things we really care about,” says Roger Winston, managing partner in the Bethesda office of the national law firm Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll, LLP.
The Honors Program made a big difference in the life of their daughter Emily ’06, now in her second year of law school at the University of Chicago. Both graduates of Northwestern High School, her parents also note the tremendous impact the Incentive Awards Program has on scholarship recipients and the benefits of work-study awards through Pathways that allow students to be partners in funding their education. The Winstons mention the positive attention that strong athletics programs bring to Maryland, too.
“I see this as an investment in students today and a long-term investment in the university,” says Winston. “When students benefiting from these programs achieve successful careers, they will also be able to give back to the university, multiplying our investment.”
