Peter Wosh believes you must stay true to your values, remember your roots and pay it forward by giving back. By honoring his wife\u2019s wishes to leave a legacy at her alma mater, he is doing all that and more.<\/p>\n
Through a\u00a0planned gift<\/a>\u00a0to the University for undergraduate scholarships in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the legacy of Patricia Schall \u201968 will support future students for many generations to come. Committed to education, Patricia was a first-generation college student. She majored in English, went on to earn a master\u2019s and a doctorate at New York University, and was a longtime professor at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown.<\/p>\n \u201cMontclair gave Pat a new life and career,\u201d says Peter.<\/p>\n Peter, too, values the role of education in his life. He grew up of modest means in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His paternal grandparents were laborers who settled in New Jersey after emigrating from Poland. He shares that his father barely finished elementary school to support his family, and he strongly felt his son should receive a more formal education. As a result, Peter was the first in his family to obtain a college degree. He commuted to Rutgers University, and after graduating from Rutgers, he went on to receive his master\u2019s and doctorate in history from New York University.<\/p>\n For the couple, being first-generation college graduates in their families motivated them to give back, especially to Montclair\u2019s first-generation students. \u201cHigher education is really important and a stepping stone to provide a better life,\u201d says Peter. \u201cI feel strongly about supporting first-generation students, and Pat did too. It is important\u2026to give something back to a new generation that has its own struggles. We felt we got a lot from our undergraduate education, and we needed to give something back.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Peter and Patricia, you can help build a brighter future for Montclair State students through a\u00a0gift in your estate plan<\/a>. To learn more, contact Ely F. Santoni, CFRE at 973-655-3695<\/a> or santonituere@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Through a planned gift, the legacy of Patricia Schall \u201968 will support future students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montclair-state-university-donors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}