{"id":7839,"date":"2022-09-26T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:45:05","slug":"family-creates-scholarship-to-honor-parents-who-met-as-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2022\/09\/26\/family-creates-scholarship-to-honor-parents-who-met-as-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Family creates scholarship to honor parents who met as students\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day of Giving<\/a> is Sept. 27, it’s a day to celebrate our donors and to educate students about how alumni contributions of time, talent and treasure help current student and enrich the University. This is the first of three stories we are running this week to mark Day of Giving.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"WaltWalt Osip \u201949 and Peggy Welp \u201948 met at University of Detroit as students pursuing degrees in chemistry. It would be the start of a school legacy that now counts several of their six children and their spouses as alumni of the University.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Walt and Peggy were married for more than 54 years when he died in 2005; she passed away in 2018. The grandparents of 11 were lifelong supporters of Detroit Mercy and often gave credit for their happy and successful life to the University and the education each received.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To honor their parents and the role Detroit Mercy holds in the family, their children and their spouses created the Walt and Peggy Osip Endowed Scholarship to support undergraduate students studying Chemistry or another science-related field. They created the scholarship out of the estate their parents built up over their life together.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The gift just\u00a0happened, said brothers Tom and Bill Osip.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not pre-arranged,\u201d Tom said. \u201cIt just sort of came up.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill \u201987 said he and his siblings realized, when the estate was settled, that they were all in a fortunate enough position to create a legacy for their parents at a place they loved.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not money I earned,\u201d Tom said. \u201cWhen you get that kind of money, you\u2019re obligated to share it. We thought a scholarship would create a longer-lasting legacy.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the way you have to look at it,\u201d said Bill, who received a scholarship to attend the University and who also met his wife while a student. \u201cWith a scholarship, you\u2019re able to affect somebody\u2019s life.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The six children created a $50,000 endowed scholarship.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Osip scholarship has been affecting students\u2019 lives for four years now and Tom says he is glad his parents live on through the scholarship.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Peggy and Walt were both studying Chemistry and Peggy was one of \u201cwhat was probably a thin crowd of women studying chemistry,\u201d Bill said. Walt came to the University on the G.I. Bill after serving in World War II, during which time he fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was a prisoner of war. Both had careers in chemistry; Walt<\/span> went into sales.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look back at it,\u201d Tom said. \u201cA number of our parents\u2019 lifelong friends were U of D people. So, it wasn\u2019t just the education they received at the University, but also great friends who became like family members and who we spent holidays with our whole lives.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And there were other memories, too.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur parents were very die-hard University of Detroit Mercy supporters,\u201d Tom said of his parents. \u201cMy dad had basketball season tickets for years. We went to an awful lot of games.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Detroit Mercy continues to hold a special place in the heart of the family. Tom is reminded of this every time he receives a letter from the grateful recipients of the scholarship in his parents\u2019 name.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To support the Walter and Peggy Osip Endowed Scholarship or to create a scholarship in your name or the name of someone you love, call 313-993-1250.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day of Giving is Sept. 27, it’s a day to celebrate our donors and to educate students about how alumni contributions of time, talent and treasure help current student and enrich the University. This is the first of three stories we are running this week to mark Day of Giving. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":7840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/09\/osip-photo.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-22r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}