Heartland Community College hosting fundraiser for Joe McCauley Scholarship Fund

Posted on September 26, 2015
Heartland Community College is hosting the Joe McCauley Art Scholarship Fundraiser Oct. 22 at Biaggi's on Veterans Parkway. (WJBC file photo)
Heartland Community College is hosting the Joe McCauley Art Scholarship Fundraiser Oct. 22 at Biaggi’s on Veterans Parkway. (WJBC file photo)

By Joe Ragusa

NORMAL – A fundraiser will be held next month to raise funds for a second art scholarship in the name of Joe McCauley, an art professor who died in 2009.

Fellow art professor Jane Camp said they already have one scholarship in McCauley’s honor.

“This fundraiser is for a second scholarship so that we can offer two students every year the opportunity to take art classes and fund those art classes,” Camp said. “In digital photography, if you get a DSLR (camera), those are really expensive. If you take an art class, you can buy better art supplies and paint brushes and that kind of stuff.”

The fundraiser is Oct. 22 at Biaggi’s on Veterans Parkway. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased through the Heartland Community College Foudation by calling (309) 268-8110 or you can purchase them at the door.

Camp said they need $3,000 to endow the second scholarship.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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