One Person Touches Many Lives

The late Andrew C. Long, a school teacher and business owner from the Class of 1928, provided lifetime and testamentary gifts totaling $4.8 million to Susquehanna University. These extraordinary gifts will be used to support scholarships and experiential learning opportunities for students in perpetuity.

A longtime supporter of Susquehanna University from Coal Township, Pennsylvania, Long initially established the Andrew C. Long Scholarship Fund in 1994 to support promising business students from the Pennsylvania region encompassing Shamokin, Coal Township, Ranshaw, Paxinos, and Shamokin Township. A new scholarship, endowed at $1 million, broadens that support to any deserving business student.

"The Long Scholarship has allowed me to attend college and grow as an individual and leader," noted a previous recipient who was a business administration major from Shamokin, Pennsylvania. "I have pursued my love of horses by competing and serving as captain of the Susquehanna equestrian team and have been touched by so many people through my sorority, Sigma Kappa, and this campus as a whole."

Even more lives have been touched by the Andrew C. Long '28 Endowment for Experiential Learning, supported by a $3 million gift from the Long estate. The endowment supports internships, collaborative research projects between students and faculty, senior capstone projects, and cross-cultural experiences undertaken by students.

The bulk of Long's gifts were made by his estate, which established a trust when he passed away in 1996. He provided for several close friends as well as other local charities during the trust's lifetime.