{"id":547,"date":"2017-09-01T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/?p=547"},"modified":"2025-02-27T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:32:09","slug":"from-the-office-of-development-and-external-relations-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/2017\/09\/01\/from-the-office-of-development-and-external-relations-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Memory of Peter Zornes through Student Scholarhips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/issue\/fall-2017\/\">Fall 2017 Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>by Lynne Haley, senior director of development<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a sunny July afternoon this past summer, 38 golfers in Colfax, Washington, raised money for WSU neuroscience student scholarships and honored the memory of Peter A. Zornes (\u201903 B.S. neuroscience). Over the last 10 years, the Peter A. Zornes Memorial Golf Tournament has raised thousands of dollars and helped 11 neuroscience students pursue their dreams to become doctors, veterinarians, and medical researchers. The endowment, now valued at over $66,000, provides financial support to neuroscience students each year.<\/p>\n<p>Although Peter\u2019s life was tragically cut short, his legacy lives large in the students who are awarded scholarships from the <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.vetmed.wsu.edu\/giving-opportunities\/peter-zornes\">Peter A. Zornes Memorial Neuroscience Scholarship fund<\/a>. I never had the chance to meet Peter, but through knowing his mom, Kathy, his dad, Tom, and his sister, Joy, over the last decade, I know just how special he was. I\u2019ve also had the opportunity to meet some of Peter\u2019s extended family, his friends, and his colleagues\u2014many who come back for the tournament year after year.<\/p>\n<p>We are so proud of all the Zornes Scholars. And we couldn\u2019t do it without your support. Thank you for giving your time to volunteer at this event, for playing a round of golf, or supporting our students with a financial gift. My special thanks go out to Peter\u2019s family for the time, effort, and love you\u2019ve put into making this scholarship a reality. You all make a difference in the lives our students.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.wsu.edu\/Zornes\">scholarship fund and the tournamen<\/a>t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny July afternoon this past summer, 38 golfers in Colfax, Washington, raised money for WSU neuroscience student scholarships and honored the memory of Peter A. Zornes (\u201903 B.S. neuroscience). Over the last 10 years, the Peter A. Zornes Memorial Golf Tournament has raised thousands of dollars and helped 11 neuroscience students pursue their dreams to become doctors, veterinarians, and medical researchers. The endowment, now valued at over $66,000, provides financial support to neuroscience students each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":[]},"categories":[514],"tags":[619,614],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}