John J. DuPlessis/ Kitty B. DuPlessis
We have five children, 3 boys and 2 girls. All are graduates of UKy where we have lived since 1966. All of their spouses attended UKy as well. Three of them are ME’s. Several have medical degrees. Our children produced 20 grandchildren. Most of those who have reached college age have received scholarships. However, sadly none to NC State. Out of state tuition at State was too high for their parents. So our hope is that our scholarship when fully funded can make a difference for future students wanting to attend State’s Materials Engineering department.
Impact
In 1993, I lead a group that established the first materials engineering scholarship, Materials Engineering Leadership Scholarship Endowment. We continued to send small annual donations. It was suggested by the Foundation that since we had given most of the funds to that scholarship that we do our own and seed it with a portion of our already contributed funds.