Joe Kareta ’10 was the kind of guy people turned to when they needed help, and that’s why he wanted to be a police officer. But Joe Kareta never got to join a police force. Just three months after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Westfield...

The Future Teachers Scholarship exists to financially assist students that are pursuing their dream of one day becoming an educator.

GARP’s Mission Statement: Through a combination of coursework, internships, community-based projects, and research, the degree program prepares students to work as professional planners in public, non-profit, and private sector positions. In addition, non-majors gain...

Professor Emeritus George Rogers directed Westfield State’s music education program for 21 years, retiring in 2009. Since then, the Rogers have established this scholarship with the purpose of providing financial assistance to incoming full time students enrolled as...

Gwyneth Clifford Cox ’49 loved teaching young children, and she passed that love on to her own offspring, who have all worked in education. Robert Cox, who recently endowed an Academic Award in her memory, says Westfield State University kindled a passion that lasted...

Longtime Westfield State Communication Professor Henry Wefing died from lung cancer on May 21, 2015. He is sorely missed by all of us at Westfield State and by the many students he helped to guide to their degrees and careers. Henry began teaching at Westfield State...

Jerry taught in the Movement Science Department at Westfield State University for 30 years. He started the award winning Track and Field/Cross Country programs. While coaching toward individual goals, team goals were also reached both regionally and nationally. As a...

Professor Emerita, Joan Corell is passionate about learning from experiences. A seasoned global traveler, Joan was enlightened by her visits to other countries. Dr. Corell believes that foreign travel promotes understanding of people from other cultures as well as...

Celeste Loughman, former professor of English. Loughman worked as a professor for 26 years until her retirement in 1998 and served two terms as chairwoman of the English Department. She received the university’s Distinguished Service Award in 1980. After Celeste and...

John N. Sarno graduated from Westfield State University earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1993. After graduating, John served on the Westfield State University Alumni and Information Technology Committee. John worked his entire professional career...

On a spring day of April 12, 2018, Yarmouth police officer, Sean Gannon, and his K-9 companion, Nero, were serving an arrest warrant when they were both shot by the man being served. Sean died from a gunshot wound that day while Nero made a full recovery after many...

Westfield State University, the Westfield State Foundation, and Kane Scrap Iron & Metal Inc., have formally inked an agreement to establish the Westfield State University Facilities Staff – Kane Brothers Scholarship. “The Facilities Staff-Kane Brothers Scholarship is...

Katherine Ann McCluskey ’49 had 19 classmates— including the school’s first male student—when she graduated in 1949 from the former Westfield State Teachers College. The memories of her two years at Westfield State remain with her today, experiences that have guided...

It was the intention of a group of dedicated alums, with the assistance of the Westfield State Alumni Association (WSAA) to endow a short term travel scholarship for Westfield State students in honor of longtime Westfield State employee Katheryn McColley Bradford...

L. KENNETH MANZER – DECEMBER 2ND , 1931 – JANUARY 18TH , 2000 Ken Manzer biography taken from the program for the Piano Dedication Concert, December 6th, 1987 _"Mr. Manzer is well known at Westfield State College as pianist, accompanist, faculty member, and director...

Kristen D. Nolan was a 1995 Criminal Justice graduate of Wesfield State. Kristen was taken away too soon just a few years after graduating. The scholarship was established in her memory by her family. Her aunt, Nanci Salvidio, was instrumental in organizing golf...

Among the family of Westfield State alumni, there is a group who might not have been able to graduate, without the generosity of a man they never knew. That’s how Paul W. Dower wanted it. A World War II veteran, printer, engraver, graphic designer and lifelong...

Lawrence Naftulin was the past Director of the Westfield State Foundation. He worked hard to support the students of Westfield State University by securing scholarship opportunities that would support their academic possibilities.

Dr. Leonard J. Savignano was the most enthusiastic booster of the Westfield State athletics program during his tenure as president of the college from 1961-72. An active athlete himself in high school and college, Savignano strongly encouraged the growth of the...

Lifetime Owls is a membership program on campus that gives students access to exclusive events, programs and scholarships opportunities. Students pay a one-time fee for lifetime membership. All funds collected through this program benefit students in some way...

Lt. Col. Robert P. Green, USAF (retired), was born on April 30, 1919 in Edwardsport, Indiana to Oscar P. and Brada A. (Messick) Green. He spent most of his childhood in Indianapolis, Indiana where he graduated from Washington High School in 1937. He valued education...

This scholarship was established by Thelma MacDougall, Class of 1929 from the Westfield Normal School in memory of her parents, Mary and Herman MacDougall. Thelma was the youngest graduate in her class at just twenty years old. She went on to become a teacher and...

The Musical Theatre Guild (MTG), formed in fall, 1976 with a first production of “Anything Goes” is and has always been run by and for students to provide quality theatrical entertainment to the campus and local community and encourage a life-long love of musical...

Nancy S. Cavanaugh was a tow head when she was a young child, and she loved to dress up, sing and otherwise entertain her parents. “She was just a little spitfire,” says her mother, Ellen Dalton of Beverly Farms, a community just outside of Boston. By high school,...

Pablo Nyarady is a former Westfield State Trustee.

The Panitch Family scholarship was established by Victor and Sue Ellen Panitch to help students from the Holyoke, MA area and/or transfer students from Holyoke Community College pursuing a career in health sciences.

Paul Blackwood Dargin, a 1983 Business Management graduate of Westfield State who aspired to be a lawyer with his father, passed away at 28 years old after a long illness. Born and raised in Dorchester, Mr. Dargin was an all-star pitcher for three years in the...

Trustee Paul Boudreau and Foundation board member Elizabeth Scheibel have established this scholarship to assist deserving students from South Hadley who wish to pursue a bachelor’s degree at Westfield State. Their commitment to public higher education and to...

Family members of Paul J. Audette, a town police officer who was killed in a car accident in 1995, created the Paul J. Audette Scholarship fund in his honor at Westfield State College in Massachusetts. Audette, originally from Worcester, died in a car accident while...

The Smith Family started their family scholarship in 2005 by an initial endowment to give graduating students from West Springfield High School an opportunity to further their education at Westfield State.