Linden Lyle Ingraham

Linden Lyle Ingraham passed away in 2005, but through his estate he left the University a $3.44 million gift, the largest in school history.

A native of Green Castle, Mo., Ingraham graduated from Browning High School in 1923. He subsequently  the University when it was known as Kirksville Normal School. He worked as a school teacher in Sullivan County and later enrolled at Chillicothe Business College before beginning a lengthy career in the community banking industry at Citizens Savings Bank in Browning, Mo. He served as the bank's president and chief executive officer, and also managed insurance in addition to managing insurance, farming and cattle enterprises. He retired in 1976 and moved to Kansas City, Mo. He passed away on July 3, 2005, at the age of 99.

The Lyle Ingraham Scholarship Fund is designed to assist students with financial need to attain a Truman State University education. The program is designed to provide more than $125,000 in scholarship resources each year. According to scholarship guidelines, the maximum annual award per student is $4,000, with at least 30 students benefiting from the fund annually. Since 2006,  nearly $440,000 has been awarded to 177 Truman students under the Ingraham Scholarship Fund.

Dean Rosebery ('41) & Amy (Ayres) Rosebery ('43)

In addition to being an alumnus of the University, Dean  was a long-time biology professor and head of the Division of Science. He received his B.S.E. in biology from Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University) in 1941 and then attended graduate school at Virginia Tech for one year.

During World War II, Dean was a Naval lieutenant on a Destroyer Escort and spent most of his time in the North Atlantic. After his service, he returned to Virginia Tech and received his Ph.D. in aquatic zoology. Following was the assistant chief of the Division of Fish for the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, he began his career at Truman in 1953. Aside from teaching the general education course “Man and the Scientific World” and serving as head of the Division of Science, he taught additional courses in biology. During many summers, he was the director of Institutes for the Teachers of Science with funding of about $900,000 from the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as president of the National Association of Academies of Science.

Dean retired in 1985 as professor emeritus of biology and head emeritus of the Division of Science.

Amy graduated from University as valedictorian of her class in 1943 with a B.A. and B.S.E. in English. She later received her M.A. degree from Columbia University in New York in 1949.

She taught speech at the Kirksville Junior High School in 1945, and from 1946-48, she taught English at the Blacksburg Virginia High School. During her undergraduate days at Truman, she was active in Alpha Sigma Alpha, Cardinal Key, Alpha Phi Sigma, Pi Kappa Delta and a member of the Debate Team.

Dean and Amy are both active in University events, such as alumni activities, Lyceum programs, and the John R. Kirk Society. Dean also served as committee chairman to raise funds for the Kohlenberg Lyceum Program and Magruder Hall, the University’s science facility. They served as the Grand Marshals for the Truman State University 2007 Homecoming Parade, and they have established two endowed scholarship funds at Truman.

The Roseberys have two children, who also attended the University, J. Frank Rosebery (’74) and Margaret McKinney (’76), as well as four grandchildren.