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Jeffrey Rosacker Endowed Fund to help GISH students
By Staff Report
The Grand Island Independent
Posted Dec 20, 2008 @ 06:09 PM
GRAND ISLAND —
Gary
and Linda Rosacker of Grand Island have established the Jeffrey
Rosacker Endowed Fund with the Grand Island Education Foundation.
The Rosackers gave $10,000 to set up an endowed fund in memory of their
son Jeff Rosacker, 21, who died on May 2, said Traci Skalberg,
executive director of the Grand Island Education Foundation.
Jeff Rosacker attended Seedling Mile Elementary School and Barr Middle
School and was a 2005 graduate of Grand Island Senior High School.
At the time of his death, he was attending Southeast Community College in Lincoln.
The Jeffrey Rosacker Endowed Fund will award grants annually to benefit
students served at the St. Francis Medical Center Student Wellness
Center located at Grand Island Senior High School.
The fund is designed to help students who are diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder with suicide ideation.
The fund will pay for counseling sessions and other mental health
services when a student's family has no or limited ability to pay.
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