Parrish Electrical Engineering Scholarship

Background

In 2007, I established a permanent endowment to fund the Donald M. Parrish Scholarship in Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa to honor my father.
He is a 1937 Electrical Engineering graduate of Iowa State.

The scholarship fund is managed by the Iowa State University Foundation and the winner is selected each year by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The winner will be a freshman who is a U.S. citizen who has demonstrated both academic merit and financial need.

Donald Maltby Parrish

I took this photo of my father, Donald M. Parrish, Sr. on his 87th birthday, September 8, 2001 at his home just 3 days before 9/11. Our ancestor owned the World Trade Center land in 1651.
This photo captures my father's positive outlook. He lived to be 91 and a half. There is more information on him on his page and there is a biographical sketch on his funeral page.

Jeremy Bruecken - Winner in 2008

Jeremy Bruecken from Waukee, Iowa was the first recipient of the Donald M. Parrish Scholarship in Electrical Engineering. In high school, Jeremy was in the top 10% of his class with a 4.0 GPA. Jeremy was the President of the Ping Pong club, achieved Life Scout Rank in the Boy Scouts and was on the design team for the Ultimate Mileage Vehicle contest. He also spent a lot of time working to earn money for college. Jeremy's long time interest in electronics and work on an independent project re-building an old robot led him to decide on Electrical Engineering. At Iowa State he won the President's Award for Competitive Excellence and has joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Alfonso Raymundo - Winner in 2010

Alfonso Raymundo is from Washington, Iowa, one of the 100 best small towns in America. In high school, he was in the top quarter of his class with a GPA of 3.66. His hobbies include figuring out how remote-controlled helicopters work, robotics, and anime. Alfonso’s parents own a local grocery story. He has 2 brothers and a sister. He is the first in his family to attend college. Alfonso also won a MVP scholarship that pays for his tuition. Alfonso worked at Iowa State this summer as an intern to Professor Ramamoorthy in the Summer Program for Enhancing Engineering Development (SPEED), where he studied the feasibility of using Simulink for programming Software Defined Radios.