40-Year Pressman Memorialized with Endowment for Students Pursuing a Career in Graphic Communications
Pittsburgh, PA — October 7, 2021 — The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) announces the Halvorsen family has funded a new endowment scholarship in honor of industry veteran Allen Halvorsen of Wisconsin. His wife, Jean E. Halvorsen, chose PGSF to memorialize her late husband, who was a longtime member of the printing industry.
Allen Halvorsen started his career as a newspaper delivery boy in Wisconsin to help his mom meet their financial needs. He quickly moved on from delivering the papers to printing them at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, WI. The Journal Sentinel is the city’s primary newspaper, with the largest distribution in the state of Wisconsin — more than 153,000. Halvorsen was a pressman at the Journal Sentinel and retired after 40 years.
“Providing for the future of the printing industry will require talent, and with education getting so expensive, I knew we should help students with some of their tuition,” comments Jean Halvorsen.
The Allen Halvorsen Scholarship was endowed for PGSF at the Print Heritage level ($25,000) and will be recognized in the PGSF Endowment Book. The Halvorsen endowment is dedicated to students who are following a career in graphic communications within the state of Wisconsin. Applicants can apply at www.pgsf.org when the 2022 scholarship process kicks off in November.
For more information, visit www.pgsf.org.
About PGSF
The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation is a not-for-profit, private, industry-directed organization that dispenses technical and college scholarships and assistance to talented youth interested in graphic communications careers, as well as current employees in the industry. The mission of PGSF is to promote the graphics industry as a career choice and to support students through their education process.
Contact:
Bernie Eckert, Managing Director
Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation
724-553-4028
Bernie.eckert@pgsf.org
Source: Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation
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