Mosley, L'58 to Increase The Farnham E. Mosley Merit Scholarship Fund

July 19, 2006

“Recognize, Encourage and provide Support” - Farnham E. Mosley, L’58

Farnham E. Mosley enrolled in 1954 at the Franklin University Law School. For four consecutive years he commuted from his home in Urbana, Ohio, to his full-time job in Dayton, to evening law school in Columbus, returning to Urbana at night. This amounted to a round trip of approximately 150 miles a day, three days a week, each week for nearly 11 months each year. In 1958, Mr. Mosley finished law school, received his degree, was elected to The Order of the Curia, and passed the Ohio Bar Exam.

During his career, Mr. Mosley held a variety of executive-level positions in both the private and public sectors. He received numerous honors for his years of government service in the area of defense contracting including Meritorious Civilian Service Medals awarded by the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Air Force.

The Farnham E. Mosley Merit Scholarship Fund
In 1999, Mr. Mosley established a named endowed scholarship fund to demonstrate his dedication to and support of:

1. Capital University Law School's strategic goal to increase its scholarship funding,

2. The Law School's evening-division student population, and

3. Meritorious academic performance by evening-division students.

Mr. Mosley wanted to "recognize, encourage and provide support" to evening-division students who had distinguished themselves academically, specified as Dean’s List recognition based on cumulative G.P.A. Since 1999, The Farnham E. Mosley Merit Scholarship has been awarded five times.

Mr. Mosley subsequently shared his desire to create "selective, prestigious scholarship awards for outstanding academic performance." To fulfill this desire, in January 2006 Mr. Mosley confirmed that it is his intent, via his personal estate plan, to significantly increase the principal balance of The Farnham E. Mosley Merit Scholarship Fund. Once fully funded, it is anticipated that earnings generated by the Mosley fund will support four scholarships per year.

In re-structuring his scholarship fund, Mr. Mosley repeated his desire to "recognize, encourage and support" students who have distinguished themselves academically at Capital University Law School stressing that these are merit scholarships not need-based scholarships. Additionally, Mr. Mosley stipulated that African-American students who meet the criteria for the rising second, third and fourth-year awards are to be given preference.

Mr. Mosley’s original intention was to award The Mosley Scholar Graduation Award after his scholarship fund received the proceeds of his deferred gift plans. However, upon learning that the class of 2006’s valedictorian, Mr. Erich Horn, was an evening-division student, Mr. Mosley directed that Erich receive a graduation award in recognition of his exemplary academic achievement.

A letter of appreciation to Mr. Mosley from Erich included the following:

• “Through the receipt of endowed scholarships such as yours, I have been able to see the character and generosity of the Capital Law School’s alumni.”
• “I am proud to be one of many evening-division students who celebrated our graduation after four years of combining work and law school. Many of us wondered if we could do well at both, but we knew of Capital’s long history of providing working students with the opportunity to attend law school”
• “I now turn to the goal I had from the beginning of my law school journey, combining my legal education with my civil engineering experience to begin a career as an environmental lawyer.”
• “I thank you for your generosity in both your establishing an endowed scholarship fund and for your decision to designate me as an object of your generosity.”
• “I hope one day to be able to assist future Capital law students in the same way your generosity has assisted me.”

Erich’s words succinctly underscore the powerful wisdom of Mr. Mosley’s desire to “recognize, encourage and provide support."

Mr. Mosley, on behalf of those who have already been the “object of your generosity,” and those who will benefit in the future, Capital University Law School, its alumni, students, faculty and staff all express our most sincere gratitude for your foresight and generosity.