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Inside the 2022-2023 Annual Report and Honor Roll of Donors, you will meet Harriet Hall, a member of East Stroudsburg University’s Class of 1956. Harriet’s love and deep devotion to her alma mater resulted in a historic commitment to ESU this year – a $4 million bequest created to help ESU students become impactful teachers and active citizens. This generous legacy from Harriet and her late husband, George, inspired all of us at the Foundation and on campus. We hope her story and other notes from the year will also inspire and ignite your enthusiasm for ESU.

Also in this year’s report, you will discover how the combined generosity of so many others has played a significant role in our record-breaking year to support the university and its students.

We are grateful to all those who made these great achievements possible this year:

• Awarded 734 scholarship awards totaling $1,109,525, ensuring that an ESU education remains affordable.
• Culminated two capital campaigns for facility improvements with the dedication of two academic spaces: The Dale and Frances Hughes Community Health Education and Simulation Center for nursing and athletic training, and The Aquaculture Laboratory for marine science.
• Celebrated the investiture of ESU’s 14th president, Ken Long, with a fundraising inauguration dinner that established the Creating Opportunities Scholarship Fund.
• Launched Warrior Women Who Give, a women’s giving circle that brings together like-minded ESU alumnae and friends who recognize that women as donors have the capability of making a tremendous impact.
• Raised more than $9.5 million in new gifts and pledges for scholarships, facility improvements, athletics, and academic programs.

Moving into a new year, we will strive to ensure our alumni, friends, faculty, staff, parents, and community partners are clear that their impact is felt and seen at the University. All support transforms our students, fosters their intellectual and personal growth, and develops the skills to move successfully into careers, civic positions, and graduate education.

Like Harriet and George Hall, many alumni are devoted to the institution that shaped them. We are grateful for all; and work each day to secure the future for each new generation of students.