Fiona Holmes ’22 is thankful for financial support she received through the David E. Barclay Endowed Scholarship in History: “The wonderful history professors at K are brilliant teachers and serve as mentors and sources of inspiration for their students. This scholarship will help me afford my final year at K, and for that, I am incredibly grateful.”

Professors Emeriti David Strauss and John Wickstrom were the driving forces behind the fundraising initiative to create this scholarship. They described the purpose of the scholarship as supporting K students who demonstrate exemplary capacity for and commitment to scholarly work in the history department. Their motivation for creating the Barclay Endowed Scholarship was to both signal K’s tradition of excellence in history by undergraduates—past, present and future—and also honor Barclay’s extraordinary career in an appropriate fashion.

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