At the April 21st Shining Stars Event Moravian University honored the Helen & R.K.Laros Foundation with the Community Partnership Award
Executive Director Sharon Jones Zondag Receiving the Foundation’s Community Partnership Award 4.21.23
L-R April 21, 2023 Sharon Jones Zondag, Executive Director Helen & R.K.Laros Foundation, Laura Bennett Shelton Foundation Vice Chair, Bryan Grigsby Moravian University President & Elizabeth Shimer Bowers Foundation Trustee. Laura is the granddaughter-in-law and Elizabeth is the & great-granddaughter of Helen & R.K.Laros.
HELEN AND RUSSELL K. LAROS HAVE BEEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MORAVIAN SINCE THE LATE 1920S WHEN THEY SENT THEIR FOUR DAUGHTERS TO THE MORAVIAN SEMINARY AND COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. IN 1952 THE HELEN AND R.K. LAROS FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SERVING THE ARTS, EDUCATION, THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, HISTORICAL PRESERVATION, AND PUBLIC AND HUMAN SERVICES. SINCE, THE FOUNDATION HAS PROVIDED SIGNIFICANT PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT TO MORAVIAN, INCLUDING FUNDING THE EXPANSION OF REEVES LIBRARY AND THE RENOVATION AND RESTORATION OF BUILDINGS ON SOUTH CAMPUS, JOHNSTON HALL, THE HAUPERT UNION BUILDING, COLLIER HALL OF SCIENCE, AND BORHEK CHAPEL, AS WELL AS IMPROVEMENTS TO THE STEEL FIELD COMPLEX,
THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTH THE PRISCILLA PAYNE HURD ACADEMIC COMPLEX AND THE SALLY BREIDEGAM (BRIDE-EH-GAHM) MIKSIEWICZ CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES. THE FOUNDATION ALSO PROVIDED PROGRAM SUPPORT TO MO’S CUPBOARD DURING THE PANDEMIC. ADDITIONALLY, TWO FORMER MORAVIAN PRESIDENTS, RAYMOND HAUPERT, AND HERMAN COLLIER, SERVED ON THE FOUNDATION’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND THREE STUDENTS RECENTLY SERVED AS INTERNS FOR THE FOUNDATION. MORAVIAN IS THANKFUL FOR THE CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HELEN AND R.K. LAROS FOUNDATION.
CONGRATULATIONS!
