Donor Legacies
Gift of a Lifetime
Harley F. Shupert, Sr.
The Harley F. Shupert, Sr. Scholarship Fund provides scholarship assistance to a worthy high school graduate of Scioto County, Ohio, entering a field of study in either teaching or health care. The first scholarship recipient was selected in the spring of 2001.
Harley F. Shupert, Sr. was born on January 4, 1912, in Adams County, Ohio, near West Union. Harley received his teaching credentials in 1932 and in 1946 he received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Wilmington College. In 1932, Harley embarked upon a teaching career that started in a one-room school in Adams County. Over the next fourty-three years, Mr. Shupert would teach school in Madison, Ross, Brown, Scioto, and Gallia, Counties in Ohio. For twenty-two years, Mr. Shupert taught in the Portsmouth City Schools District at Garfield and Lincoln Elementary. Even after his retirement in 1968, Harley still continued teaching. For the next seven years, Mr. Shupert taught at Lynn and McKell Elementary Schools in Greenup, Kentucky.
On June 30, 1934, Harley married Lula Faye Black and together, they raised six; children John, Barbara, Harley Jr., Kenneth, Dale and Beverly. Because of their father's love of education and children, five of the six worked in the education field.
The Shupert children created this fund to establish a memorial to their parents. According to Mr. John Shupert, "this was a way to give back to the community through education and my father loved both education and children."