Price Scholarships

Elizabeth Kegg Price Scholarship

Hattie C. and George I. Price Scholarship

Lloyd R. and George Warren Price Scholarship

In February 1977, Lloyd Price ’25 found himself bereft following the death of his wife, Elizabeth Kegg Price.  The loss of one’s spouse is probably life’s most cruel blow, he wrote to a friend.  We lacked but five months to the day of being married fifty years. 

Casting about for ways in which he might memorialize his wife, a native of Mansfield, Ohio, Price hit upon the idea of approaching his alma mater about a scholarship that would bear her name.  He soon contacted Kenyon’s development office and arranged a trip to Gambier.

I loved the College when I was there, but I like it even better now, he wrote to a classmate after the April 1977 visit.  The girls are pretty, and the boys are good-looking, too.  In fact, I heartily approve of everything I saw.

The people with whom Price met at Kenyon-among them Dean of Students Thomas J. Edwards, Vice President for Development Richard K. Fox, and President Philip H. Jordan Jr.-were enthusiastic about his idea.  A letter he wrote to W. Herbert Rusk ’25 reveals that Price was excited about setting up the scholarship.  I suggested that Mansfield girls be given preference, perhaps especially those who might be interested in going after a medical degree.  Heaven knows we need them-and heaven knows they’re every bit as smart as boys and often harder workers.

On the last point, Price did not spare himself.  I’m not proud of the way I loafed through college, he wrote.  In fact, I’m mightily ashamed of it.  So maybe some kid who gets the scholarship will turn out to be an able physician or a fine teacher.  Wouldn’t that be something? 

I know it’s sort of a roundabout way of paying back what I owe to Kenyon, Price concluded.  But what other way is left at this late date?  And it is late.

Born in West Burlington, Iowa, in 1901, Lloyd Price entered Kenyon as an upperclassman, having begun his college career at Ohio State University.  At the College, he was active in Beta Theta Pi and on the Reveille staff, serving as advertising manager in his junior and senior years.  From Gambier, Price moved on to New York City, where he accepted a position with Chase Manhattan Bank.  Several years later, he and a partner acquired the Robinson Tag and Label Company there, which they ran for many years with great success.  After selling the firm to the Avery Products Company in the 1960s, Price retired to Florida.