Arizona couple makes gift to K-State College of Engineering

Thomas and Una Bowman, Tucson, Ariz., have made a commitment valued at $350,000, through a bequest in their will, to the College of Engineering at Kansas State University to establish the Thomas Everett and Una Naomi Bowman Engineering Scholarship.

The purpose of this scholarship is to aid undergraduate students who are enrolled in the department of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering. Recipients may receive the scholarship for a maximum of four years if they maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.

Tom and Una are natives of Kansas and were both born near Salina. Tom graduated from K-State in 1957 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and began his career with Western Electric in Chicago. He worked 30 years in the manufacturing engineering and management industry. Tom retired from AT&T Inc. in Omaha, Neb. in 1987. As a student at K-State, he was a member of both Steel Ring and Sigma Tau honor societies.

Tom and Una are members of the KSU Foundation’s Presidents Club, a philanthropic leadership organization for friends and alumni of K-State.

“We are both grateful for the fine educational experiences we had at Kansas State University,” Tom and Una said. “Today and in the future, availability of scholarship assistance to deserving students will be absolutely essential. We want to help qualified students to prepare to contribute engineering and manufacturing excellence to American business.”

“The Bowman’s contributions represent a remarkable spirit of leadership and philanthropy,” John English, College of Engineering dean said. “They have accepted the challenge of making a tangible difference in K-State engineering. We are thrilled to be able to offer this scholarship to our industrial and manufacturing engineering students.”