Currier Scholarship Awards Millionth Dollar
Scholarship fund has been helping Purdue engineering students since 2000
Kevin Hunckler remembers what it felt like when he learned he’d received the Donald C. and Marion E. Currier Scholarship in 2016.
“I’d been a 21st Century Scholar,” says Hunckler, a 2015 graduate of Marian High School. “But I was still on the hook for a lot of cost. The Currier scholarship meant I could focus entirely on school.”
The Currier scholarship is a major award – providing full tuition and fees, as well as a stipend for books and living expenses. All told, it’s the largest scholarship that the Foundation awards.
Hunckler is one of 40 students who’s received the Currier Scholarship since it was first awarded in 2000. 25 years later, the fund is celebrating a significant milestone after awarding its millionth dollar earlier this summer.
Donald Currier was raised in Mishawaka and was a proud graduate from Purdue’s School of Mechanical Engineering in 1926. When he passed away in 1998, his wife Marion established the fund in order to help the next generation of engineers.
Nearly a century after his own college graduation, Currier’s legacy continues.
None of this is lost on Hunckler, who recognizes that he’s “definitely been blessed” to have received this scholarship.
Hunckler graduated from Purdue in 2019 and works with an electrical engineering firm out of Indianapolis. He says he feels a responsibility to pay it forward – volunteering to work with a robotics program at a local middle school. The students at the middle school might not ever know it, but they’re each a part of Donald C. Currier’s long legacy too.
Learn more about our scholarship funds at cfsjc.org/scholarships.